^ IWtdmit ^bbfij. … N the old Mama Britannia the orio-in of thefounding of this famous abbey is thus quaintlygiven. A monafter}^ of Ciltercian monkswas built at Rievaux by Walter Elpec, agreat man in the court of Henry I., upon^ this occafion. In his youth he had marrieda certain lady, named Adeline, and had by her a…
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