Pleasant Days in Pleasant PlacesHardwicke & Bogue, 1878 - 293 pages |
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... Abbot of Battle , with but small success . Speaking of this attack , and the defence of the town by the worthy abbot , old Fuller says , in his quaint language , ' I behold in this abbot the saver , not onely of Sussex , but of England ...
... Abbot of Battle , with but small success . Speaking of this attack , and the defence of the town by the worthy abbot , old Fuller says , in his quaint language , ' I behold in this abbot the saver , not onely of Sussex , but of England ...
Page 120
... abbot ( for both titles appear to have been used indiscriminately ) of the house was William Corboyl or Corboys , who became Archbishop ' Locus est in diœcesi Londiniensi apud Orientales Saxones Cic , gentili vocabulo , dictus , ubi est ...
... abbot ( for both titles appear to have been used indiscriminately ) of the house was William Corboyl or Corboys , who became Archbishop ' Locus est in diœcesi Londiniensi apud Orientales Saxones Cic , gentili vocabulo , dictus , ubi est ...
Page 121
... abbot and sixteen monks , when of course it passed into secular hands . At this time the annual revenues of the house , according to Dugdale , amounted in the gross to 758 , and the clear income to 6771 . The site was granted by Henry ...
... abbot and sixteen monks , when of course it passed into secular hands . At this time the annual revenues of the house , according to Dugdale , amounted in the gross to 758 , and the clear income to 6771 . The site was granted by Henry ...
Page 124
... abbot's chambers . The present gateway , however , which leads into a grand and spacious quadrangle , is a very handsome and imposing structure , three storeys in height and battle- mented , and as perfect now as the day when it was ...
... abbot's chambers . The present gateway , however , which leads into a grand and spacious quadrangle , is a very handsome and imposing structure , three storeys in height and battle- mented , and as perfect now as the day when it was ...
Page 127
... Abbot's Tower , ' is much larger and more highly finished than the other . It is four or five storeys high , and the top of it commands an extensive view of the German Ocean and of the entire Essex coast from Dengie Hundred nearly to ...
... Abbot's Tower , ' is much larger and more highly finished than the other . It is four or five storeys high , and the top of it commands an extensive view of the German Ocean and of the entire Essex coast from Dengie Hundred nearly to ...
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