Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929 · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 281
on water. The religious were of the Order of Premontre, whichhad been founded in the early part of the twelfth cen-tury by St. Norbert. On Christmas Day, 1121, the whitehabit of the canons regular was given to Norbert andsome forty companions at a place called Premontre, inthe diocese of Laon, and… … TITCHFIELD Scotland during the lifetime of St. Norbert. In Eng-land the first colony was established in 1143 at New-house, in Lincolnshire, the community being furnishedfrom the Abbey of Lisques, near Calais. Within 100years the spread of the new Order in this country hadbeen phenomenal, and…
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