Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield complaining in 1582 of peculiars, some of which belonged to laymen, as holders of abbey lands, in the matter of recusants).
Grantees of abbey lands in Ireland, as in England, Catholics though they might be, held fast their prey.
Restoration to the Church of the abbey lands, of the grantees of which they were the heirs, was by no means to their mind.
Her girdle was long preserved in the abbey of St. Germain, in Paris; and females were, it was generally believed, undoubtedly relieved in their hour of suffering by the application of the sacred relic.
The extraordinary heaviness of the remains was no longer felt; it was removed thither, and deposited in the abbey in the year 997, where it lies to the present day.
In Westminster Abbeyare singular records of the dreams of Edward the Confessor, and of instances of faith in visions.
But in neither the case of Dugdale nor in that of the cicerone of the Abbey is the merit of the tomb a warrant for the immortality of the entombed.
Yet ten years elapsed before the Abbey of Battle was sufficiently completed to receive an abbot.
It belonged to theAbbey of Pontigny and was served by its monks who had a cell here, and the town it adorns and ennobles, was the capital of all this district.
Halnaker, in 1105 bestowed the church upon the Abbey of Lessay, which sent hither its Benedictines and built for them a new sanctuary.
Edward the Confessor, though hallowed at Winchester, looked upon London as his capital and there built the great abbey which was thenceforth to see the crowning of England's kings.
At the end of April 1152 she fell sick at Hedingham Castle in Essex, and dying there three days later, was buried in the abbey church at Faversham.
Harold's forces were drawn up upon the ridge where the ruins of Battle Abbey now stand.
Little more than two years later the abbot surrendered the abbey and received a pension of one hundred pounds.
Then did the barons decide that they should quarter them- 40 selves between the palace of Blachernae and the castle of Boemond, which was an abbey enclosed with walls.
In the morning the parliament was held in an orchard belonging to the abbey of our Lady of Soissons.
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Thomas Muskerry" was produced in the Abbey Theatre after I had ceased to be a member of the group that had founded it.
There was a while stillness and one without touched the dulcimere, and I heard the bells ringing from the Abbey of St. Peter, and the sun was almost set.
There was a Fine Marble put up in the Abbey Church of Westminster to the Memory of Mr. Thynne, and next year his Widow, the Lady Ogle, married the Duke of Somerset, who was the Proudest Man in England.
And the ships waited to take ingloriously home the proudest knight in Europe to rest his limbs in the Savoy and presently his bones in St. Peter’s Church at the Abbey near Westminster.
Gray, who visited Netley Abbey in the preceding month, calls it "a most beautiful ruin in as beautiful a situation.
Battel Abbey stands at the end of the town, exactly as Warwick Castle does of Warwick; but the house of Webster have taken due care that it should not resemble it in any thing else.
To-morrow we go to the ruins of the Abbey of St. Osyth; it is the seat of the Rochfords, but I never chose to go there while they were there.
He was walking this week in Westminster Abbey with Lord Abergavenny, and met the man who shows the tombs, "Oh!
A hill rises above the abbey encircled with wood: the fort, in which we would build a tower for habitation, remains with two small platforms.
He had been buried about forty years when a monument was placed in Westminster Abbey to his memory, by John Barber, a printer, and afterwards an Alderman and Lord Mayor of London.
In fact, the Abbey of Melrose was a sort of inn, not only to the poor, but to some of the greatest men of the time.
It was Gray's wish that he might be buried here, near the mother whom he loved so well; otherwise he could hardly have escaped the posthumous misfortune of a tomb in Westminster Abbey or St. Paul's.
Two monasteries in Ireland, the abbeyof Druin-la-Croix in the County of Armagh, and the abbey of Woodburn in the county of Antrim, acknowledged Dryburgh as their mother.
Abbey itself which had sufficed for Scottish sovereigns before Edinburgh was their habitual or capital residence.
Along with this abbey of Dryburgh, he held in commendam those of Pittenweem, Coldingham, and Dunfermline.
As the remains of the abbey have since been carefully preserved, they present still much the same aspect as at Grose's visit in 1797.
The abbey stands on a broad level near the Tweed, but is surrounded by hills and fields full of beauty, and peopled with a thousand beings of romance, tradition, and poetry.
Elizabeth, the abbey was continually suffering from their inroads, in which the spirit of vengeance against the Scots who resisted their schemes of aggression was mixed strongly with that of enmity to Popery.
The Benedictine Abbey of Burton was founded by Ulfric Spot, Earl of Mercia, about 1002, and endowed with so many manors that it was as great as a barony.
The king made a compulsory exchange of the great tithes of the parish of Whalley, on which he seized as part of the abbey property, with the Archbishop of Canterbury, for some of the lands which belonged to the Kentish see.
L11; out of which he had to pay a pension to St. Mary's Abbey of 36s.
In not a few cases a great abbey was the origin of the existence of a town.
The Abbey of St. Edmund seems to have built two within a very short period (see p.
As they neared the Abbey Robin walked on in front of the rest and held his bow free in his hand.
Near by Kirklees Abbey they laid to his last rest this bravest of all brave men--the most fearless champion of freedom that the land had ever known.
Another two days brought them within a league of Fountain's Abbey or Dale, as some folk call it.
Out of the ruins left by the Danes arose in 1164 the "Great Abbey of Abbot O'Brolchain," who was at that time made the first bishop of Derry.
The principal objects of interest here are the ruined abbey and the castle of the O'Donnells.
The river, which soon becomes an estuary, rolls in a magnificent and broad stream through the heart of the town, and sends off a considerable branch called the Abbey River.
Sligo suffered in the massacres of 1641, when it was taken by Sir Frederick Hamilton and the abbey burned.
Of these, the greatest was the abbey of St. Werburgh.
Higden, the chronicler of St. Werburgh's Abbey (the church which since Henry VIII.
At last they resolved to adjourn to the Abbey Church; and so they formed themselves into procession, and stepped forwards.
Nothing poetical, nothing romantic, was ever known to take place between the Barrière de St Denis and the town where the abbey stands.
And as for the other objection, that the Dome of the Rock (to give it its other name) is not actually used as a Mosque, I answer that Westminster Abbey is not used as an Abbey.
The guide who showed me the Sepulchre was not particularly noisy or profane or palpably mercenary; he was rather more than less sympathetic than the same sort of man who might have shown me Westminster Abbey or Stratford-on-Avon.
In the Horner family was discovered years afterward the plum that Jack had picked out, one of the chief title-deeds of Mells abbey and lands.
Wolsey held three bishoprics and one archbishopric, besides the abbey of St. Albans.
In Furness Abbey, among the ruins, has been found another, with five cups in it; at Calder Abbey another, with sixteen such cups for oil and wicks.
When the Abbey of New Corbey was founded in Saxony, Warin, the abbot, wrote to Hilduin of St. Denis, to entreat the gift of these relics for his church.
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