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The greater abbeys of England (1908)

Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929 · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 297

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y I should have started at once, but now will waittill Monday, over the High Feast of Our Blessed Lady,probably March 25, 1537. Whatever may have been thebusiness, it was probably connected with the then impor-tant matter of the forced suppression of the house. Itwas taken possession of by Henry,… … TINTERN defacing the ^^ superfluous buildings, as the wantondestruction was called, have come down to us. As thehistory of these dissolutions was much the same in everycase it may be of interest to give the account of what tookplace in regard to another Cistercian house in the wordsof one who was a…

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