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The ruined abbeys of Yorkshire (1883)

Lefroy, William, 1836-1900 · London, Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday · leaf 92

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the twelve or fourteen intervening miles, and it is notthe too-hackneyed Pegasus of Walter Scott, but agenuine fifteenth-century ballad of The grizeliestbeast that ever mote be. The fruitless efforts of thegood Franciscans to bring this beest of pryce aliveto Richmond have been long familiar to… … THE REFECTORY, EASBY ABBEY. in the present series of sketches to ignore thenew light which Dominic and Francis kindled atthe dying embers of monasticism, but the historyof neither system can be even fairly outlined with-out reference to the other as antecedent or assequel. Meanwhile, it is to be…

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