Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929 · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 73
rly bene-factors of that monastery. He came to the Chapter and,with his two sons, assenting with entire hearts, he gavelands to the Norman monks from Savigny that they mightsing daily the Mary Mass for the welfare of his ownsoul and for the soul of Alice his wife, of his ancestors andhis posterity.… … I BUCKFAST ABBEY above it on the Ashburton side, still bears the name of Priestaford; A charter of Henry II, witnessed by Archbishop Theo-bald and St. Thomas Becket, when Chancellor, and con-firming all the privileges and grants of land, etc., heldby the monastery in the time of Henry I, his…
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