Historic collections, relating to the monasteries in Devon

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P. A. Hannaford, 1841 - 150 sayfa
 

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Sayfa vii - It is not with much credulity I listen to any, when they speak evil of those whom they are going to plunder. I rather suspect that vices are feigned or exaggerated, when profit is looked for in their punishment. An enemy is a bad witness ; a robber is a worse.
Sayfa 45 - This abbot was cited 15th April, 1513, to appear before Dr. Richard Collet, the bishop's commissioner, to answer to the charge of contempt of episcopal authority. The abbot, instead of explaining the occasion of his conduct, or offering any apology, produced a written appeal to the Roman court. The appeal was declared by the commissioner to be frivolous and inadmissible. For his obstinacy the abbot was suspended that very day; and, on the 22d of the same month, was excommunicated 'propter multiplicem...
Sayfa 44 - This abbot had -very little of the spirit of a religious man. He was passionately fond of field sports, was very conceited and foppish in his dress, and a most incurable spendthrift. During his government discipline seems to have been banished from the convent. Frequently but two of the community were present at the regular meals in the refectory, whilst the rest were feasting sumptuously in their private chambers. From the neglect of repairs the monastery was falling into a dilapidated state, and,...
Sayfa 61 - The shatter'd aisles, with clui't'ring ivy hung, The yawning arch in rude confusion flung : Sad striking remnants of a former age, To pity now might melt the spoiler's rage ! Lo sunk to rest, the wearied vot'ry sleeps, While o'er his urn the gloomy cypress weeps. Here silent pause — here draw the pensive sigh — Here musing learn to live, here learn to die ! ! ! I fear it is impossible to recover the complete -series of the Abbots.
Sayfa 145 - Nulli ergo omnino [hominum lic]eat hanc paginam [nostre] confirmationis [infringere vel ei] ausu temerario [contraire]. Siquis autem hoc attemptare presumpserit, indignationem omnipotentis Dei et b[eatorum Petri et] Pauli apostolorum eius se noverit incursurum.
Sayfa 110 - ... shewyd, and thus ys to advertysse yow that here ys moche comunycacyon and bruts that all abbays, pryorys and nunrys under the cler yerly valew off CCli shall be suppressyd nottwtstondynge hyt ys nott as yett in these parties uponly knowen the occacyon off suppressyon nor who shall take most benyffyte therby nor to whate usse hyt shall rest at lengthe. But trew hyt ys that I am by the Kynggs ffather by hys graunt to my poar ffather made to hym and hys issue male, founder of the pryory of Tottenes...
Sayfa vi - TJie most ab.omi" nable crimes were to be charged upon the religious, and the charge " was to be managed with the utmost industry, boldness and dexterity. " This was a powerful argument to...
Sayfa lxxxi - ... or else if the penners of the letters patents for that purchase have corruptly put it into the draught, or transcript, and the peruser overpass it, either by too much confidence in the penner, or for lack of time by so slight conferring of the particular and transcript, suffered such a scape ; and so, if the same have...
Sayfa 29 - Inhabitants for the time being, TWELVE GOVERNORS of the hereditaments and goods of the Church of Crediton...

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