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The ruined abbeys of Yorkshire (1891)

Lefroy, William Chambers · London : Seeley and Co., limited; New York, Macmillan & Co. · leaf 308

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hen, for some reason, Serlo was displaced, and ayounger William, nephew of the founder, wasmade abbot. The conduct of the elder William, the brother ofSerlo, towards the monaster)- has been much dis-cussed, and he has been accused of violence andinjustice by >omc historians, and entirely… … WHITBY CHURCH. FROM A WINDOW OF THE ABBEY U Whitby 291 (Henry I.) granted to the monks the port, or haven,with the wreck and all other appurtenances. To thefifth year of Henry II belongs the strange and pic-turesque, but somewhat lengthy, story of how Williamde Bruce and Ralph de Percy, with a…

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