Historic Collections, Relating to the Monasteries in Devon

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R. Cullum, 1820 - 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 61 - The shatter'd aisles, with clustering 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...
Sayfa 61 - How great, how fallen, the mournful ruim shews. Of sacrilege, behold, what heaps appear ! Nor blush to drop the tributary tear. Here stood the font — here on high columns rais'd, •The dome extended — there the altar blaz'd The shatter'd aisles, with...
Sayfa 46 - These prelates decided on the 8th of February following, that the abbot had not produced any indults, bulls, or vouchers authorizing any exemption from the jurisdiction of the ordinary ; they therefore decreed that he and his convent should submit to this regularly constituted authority, as their predecessors had done from time immemorial: they recommended...
Sayfa xxviii - Sciatis modo quod nos de gratia nostra speciali ac ex certa scientia et mero motu nostris Dedimus et Concessimus ac per presentes...
Sayfa 119 - Ther was a house of monk aliens of the French order at Modbyri. The site of their mansion is yet seene on the north side of the chirche. The founder was ther scant knowen. I take it that Ruan or Oxton were founders of it. This priory with the personage of Modbyri impropriate was given yn King Edward the 4. tyme to Eyeton College.
Sayfa 29 - Inhabitants for the time being, TWELVE GOVERNORS of the hereditaments and goods of the Church of Crediton...
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 draw an odium...
Sayfa 43 - Priests, who should be bound to celebrate the daily and nightly office, together with the service for the dead ; to say three, or at least two, Requiem masses every day, 'besides one of -our Lady. In their suffrages, they were to pray for the prosperity of the said Abbot and convent ; for King Edward II. and his Queen Isabella ; for the Bishop, Dean and Chapter of Exeter ; and for the founders and benefactors of Tavistock Abbey.
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,...

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