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The ruined abbeys of Yorkshire (1891)

Lefroy, William Chambers · London : Seeley and Co., limited; New York, Macmillan & Co. · leaf 172

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s poems, proposes tovisit hi- daughter i.e. a daughter-house of the order ,he takes care to give ample notice, and then thereis a running to meet him with bread and wine andfish, lie i- conducted into a building strewn withrushes and flowers, the (loth is laid, and, havingwashed his hand-, he… … Kirkstall and Roche 155 —that is the object of his first visit, and there hepartakes of food. As for the poverty of the cloister,he neither experiences it nor troubles his head aboutit. Nay, the holy father, who has been prescribinga rule of life for the brethren, shortly proceeds todestroy with…

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