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The ruined abbeys of Yorkshire (1883)

Lefroy, William, 1836-1900 · London, Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday · leaf 80

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Mount Grace of Ingleby,dedicated to St. Mary and St. Nicholas. Thomas Holland was then Duke of Surrey, andthe favoured and trusted nephew of the King. Butwhen, only two years later, Richard II. was deposed,the Duke became once more Earl of Kent, and therich and powerful patron of the Carthusians… … Mount Grace Priory. 49 the monks uncertain as to their title to those far-offmidland and southern lands at Hinchley, Warham,and Carisbrooke, which the deposed monarch hadgranted to his favourite. At last, however, in 1440,Henry VI. confirmed the original grants, and buildingoperations were resumed…

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