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The ruined abbeys of Yorkshire (1891)

Lefroy, William Chambers · London : Seeley and Co., limited; New York, Macmillan & Co. · leaf 284

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tretton, andthe priory was at once removed. This grant ofBolton, and the consequent removal of the canons,is connected by the legend with the death of the boyof Egremont, but Dr. Whitaker ruthlessly announced,in his History of Craven, that the boy was him-self a party to the Charter of Translation.… … BOLTON PRIORY Bolton, Guisborough, and Kirkham 267 quite possibly have lost a son in the way describedby Wordsworth. A compotus of the priory, from 1290 to 1325,gives many graphic details of its condition and his-tory. Between 1316 and 1320 the invading Scotsappear in very grim reality, and the…

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