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The greater abbeys of England (1908)

Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929 · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 261

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e as abbess in 1333 ninety nuns were present and re-corded their votes. Sixteen years later she died, in 1349,and a successor was elected in the person of Joan Gervays,who received the royal assent on May 7. We have nodetailed account of the death-roll in the convent, but wemay judge how terrible…

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