s ruins. So fays John Still, the poetical hiftorianof the abbey in the reign of Henry VI.— Haec vallis tenuit olim fibi nomen ab herbaBekan, qua viruit, dulcis nunc, tunc fed acerba ;Inde domus nomen, Beckanfglll, claruit ante. Hence, too, the nightfliade figures largely in the armorialdevices of… … FURNESS ABBEY. 2 F 2l8 FURNESS ABBEY. granted. Thefe monks were of the Ciftercian order, as wasfo generally the cafe with thofe who founded the abbeys of thetwelfth century. It is noteworthy that, of the ten abbeys andpriories which we have introduced into this volume, the wholeof them, without our…
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