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The ruined abbeys of Yorkshire (1891)

Lefroy, William Chambers · London : Seeley and Co., limited; New York, Macmillan & Co. · leaf 216

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forlinen in bedding as well as clothes, lies the peculiarhardship of the Carthusian rule, but rather in thatwhich the ruins now before us so vividly recall—theilation of each monk in his own little hut andwalled garden, the silence enjoined even on the ted festivals when the common refectory… … o au o zo o H UOZ< KHZ < « HZ W u H 0< O Mount Grace Priory 199 Elijah see the ravens in his eremus ? Yet it wasfor this rule, in all its stern integrity, that the inmatesof our London Charterhouse were ready to die. Itis instructive to see how their extirpation by Crom-well and his master…

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