Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929 · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 89
d arisenbetween the King and the barons, it was necessary that theabbot of St. Edmundsbury should be blessed without de-lay, and so put himself in a position to act with otherecclesiastics with full abbatial power should events sodemand. It was on May 17, after his benediction atRochester, that the… … i-, BP--R
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