Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929 · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 63
good deal of the Beaulieu Abbeybuildings in its foundations. But to go back to the story of this Cistercian house.On Its first establishment by King John in 1204, it wascolonized by Citeaux itself. The royal charter speaks ofit as being intended for thirty monks, but apparentlytwenty-two only came… … BEAULIEU abbey: DOOR OF THE ABBEY CHURCH BEAULIEU It is said that King John treated the Cistercians in Eng-land in no better way than he did his other subjects. Onthe occasion of one special demand for a large subsidythe abbots of the Order journeyed to Lincoln to see theKing in person and to…
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