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Title: The greater abbeys of England
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929
Subjects: Abbeys
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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he, * Giveme two shillings for my cell door, which was never madewith five shillings.. . . Such persons as afterwardsbrought them corn or hay or suchlike, finding all thedoors either open or the locks and ^ shackles pluckeddown or the door itself taken away, went in and tookwhat they found and filched it away. Some took the service books that lay in the churchand put them upon their wam coppes to piece them;some took windows of the hayloft and hid them in theirhay, and likewise they did of many other things. Somepulled forth the iron hooks out of the walls that hadbrought none, when the yeomen or gentlemen of thecounty had brought the timber of the church. The church was the first thing that was put to spoiland then the abbots lodging, the dorter and frater withthe cloister and all the buildings thereabout within theabbey walls. Nothing was spared but the ox-houses andswine-cots and such other houses of office that stood with-out the walls, which had more favour shown them than (278)
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TINTERN ABBEY : INTERIOR TINTERN the very church itself, which was done by the advice ofCrumwell, as Fox reporteth it in his book of Acts. ^ It would have pitied any heart to see what tearingup of the lead there was, what plucking up of boards andthrowing down of sherds. And when the lead was tornoff and cast down into the church and the tombs in thechurch all broken (for in most abbeys were divers noblemen and women—^yea, in some abbeys Kings whose tombswere regarded no more than the tombs of inferior per-sons) for to what end should they stand when the churchover them was not spared for their sakes? All things ofprice either spoiled, carried away, or defaced to the utter-most. The persons who cast the lead into fodders pluckedup all the seats in the choir, wherein the monks sat whenthey said service, which were like to the seats in minstersand burned them and melted the lead therewith, althoughthere was wood plenty within a flight shot of them. . . .In the rocks were found pewter

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