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The ruined abbeys of Yorkshire (1891)

Lefroy, William Chambers · London : Seeley and Co., limited; New York, Macmillan & Co. · leaf 52

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pt of St. ()do ofChun- to remedy this state of things was doomedto ultimate failure, because he still left everythingdependent on the individual Abbots. Stephens ideawas to create an order which should be self-regulatingand self-reforming. With this view he instituted asystem of reciprocal… … . \ -.; RIEVAULX ABBEYTHE CHOIR AND PRESBYTERY, LOOKING SOUTH D Rievaulx 35 under the presidency of the Pater UniversalisOrdinis —the Abbot of Citeaux. The uniformity which enables us, in passing fromone Cistercian ruin to another, to predict with cer-tainty what buildings we shall find or trace,…

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