e, and the perseverance ofa single man. Mr. Walbran discovered, from aninstrument of Archbishop Murdac in the treasuryof the Dean and Chapter of York, that, at therequest of Abbot Alexander and the monks ofKirkstall, the two chapels of Bracewell and Martonwere raised by the Archbishop to their… … KIRKSTALL ABBEY. INTERIOR OF THE CHURCH. and a higher type of the religious life, and so departedto his patron. De Lacy approved the plan, and persuadedWilliam de Poictou to grant the lands in Airedaleto the monks in perpetuity at the rent of five marksannually. Then the Abbot, having made sure of…
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