The foundation of the two great abbeys soon led to a growing population outside their walls.
Two Cistercian abbeys near one another in Wexford are remarkable from the circumstances of their foundations.
He recommended that the chief abbeys and castles should be entrusted to Englishmen, from Bray Head round the coast to Dunbrody on the Suir, and inland from Baltinglass and Carlow along the Barrow to Ross.
In the latter half of 1536 a commission under the Great Seal not now extant was issued for the suppression of eight Irish abbeys named therein.
In Elphin John Max was appointed by the Pope; but as he held the abbeys of Welbeck or Tichfield, or both, along with his bishopric, he can hardly have been distasteful to Henry.
Similar regulations were made respecting abbeys and monastic institutions in general, a few exceptions being allowed in favor of those patrons and bodies to whom special privileges had been accorded.
The church of the state, with its rich abbeys and priories, its glorious old cathedrals, and boundless possessions of lands and houses, was not to be resigned without a struggle so terrific as to shake the foundations of the throne itself.
The exquisite beauty of abbeysor of silver images is less pleasing in God's sight than the holy life of good prelates.
In their abbeys or bishoprics they were as debauched as those who followed arms for their profession.
There were abbeys and abbeys, it was true, but his Breton optimism and trust in fate closed that avenue of speculation.
Rangeard, in his history of Brittany, says, that at the beginning of the twelfth century there were more irregular than regular abbeys in France.
The admiration of the Normans for monasticism caused a considerable increase in the practice of endowing monasteries with tithes and parish churches, and thus in many cases tithes were paid to abbeys both here and abroad.
Elections to bishoprics and royal abbeys were to be made by the higher clergy of the church in the king's chapel and with his assent, and the elect was to do homage and fealty to the king as his liege lord before he was consecrated.
Chief among the opponents of the new archbishop of York were the Cistercian abbeys of the north; and Bernard, abbot of Clairvaux, the head of the order, who was the guiding spirit of the papacy at this time, threw all his weight on their side.
We can imagine the hasty flight of the monks, for the abbeys and churches were always the first objects of attack by these heathen invaders.
His gifts to the Church and the founding ofabbeys won for him the title of the 'Good' earl.
The Cistercian Abbeys of Combermere and Darnhall, and the Priories at Mobberley and Birkenhead, were treated in similar fashion, and their wealth and estates divided between the neighbouring gentry and the king.
Some of the wealth taken from the abbeys and monasteries was devoted to the foundation of schools.
Early examples appear in the Cistercian abbeys of Furness and Kirkstall, and in the Temple Church at London (1185).
All the existing abbeysand cathedrals of this period had wooden ceilings or were, like Durham, Norwich, and Gloucester, vaulted at a later date.
The student of Gothic architecture should also give attention to the choir-screens, tombs, and chantries which embellish many of the abbeys and cathedrals.
These were placed near the outside of the thick wall, and a passage was left between them and a triple arch on the inner face of the wall--a device imitated from the abbeys at Caen.
All things," says Malmesbury, "became venial in England; and churches and abbeys were no longer secretly but even publicly exposed to sale.
The burnt and wasted country saw its towns built again, forts erected in positions of danger, new abbeys founded, the machinery of justice and government restored, the laws codified and amended.
Moreover, except to a spectator skilled in architecture, all ruined abbeys are pretty much alike.
The list of abbeys and other religious houses formerly flourishing here (some now only known by name, but many of them surviving in ruins) comprehends upwards of twenty.
Other Bishoprickes and Abbeys which King William kept voide at the time of his death, hee furnished with men of best sufficiencie and reputation.
He was in quite as much haste to found bishoprics and abbeys as to build fortresses.
Henry wanted money; some of the English abbeys were rich, and the monks were quite unable to defend themselves against the charges which were brought against them.
The pages in italics contain startling lists of defaulting abbeys and priories.
In 12th-century England, the nearest approach to the comfort of a modern household would probably have been found either in rich Jews' houses or in the more favoured parts of abbeys like Bury and St. Albans.
Brewing has been carried on from the days of the monks, and no doubt plenty of good ale was brewed in the Abbeys of Abingdon and Reading.
In the north, where some of the greatest abbeys were situated, the monks were on good terms with the country gentry and their houses served as schools for their children; nor is there any sign of a different feeling elsewhere.
There was none of the resistance to the dissolution of the abbeys which had been witnessed on the other side of the Channel, and the greedy chieftains showed themselves perfectly willing to share the plunder of the Church.
Irishmen were shut out by law from abbeys and churches within the English boundary, and the ill-will of the natives shut out Englishmen from churches and abbeys outside it.
His liege Milo received from him the archbishoprics of Rheims and Troves; and his nephew Hugh those of Paris, Rouen, and Bayeux, with the abbeys of Fontenelle and Jumieges.
During the French wars, as we have seen, the smaller possessions of foreign abbeys were gradually appropriated to other religious foundations.
The Pilgrimage of Grace brought disaster to the abbeys which had lent it support.
In Cistercian abbeys it was generally connected with the east walk of the cloister by a long covered gallery or passage, which usually threw off a branch, nearly at right angles, to the eastern part of the church.
The Conqueror and his followers sought the salvation of their souls by the foundation of abbeys and priories on their new estates.
Most of their abbeys were in the midland districts: in Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and Norfolk, where their houses were numerous, the title of prior was universal.
Such names as Vaudey (Vallis Dei) and Valle Crucis mark the favourite site of such abbeys in secluded valleys: it was seldom that the rule was transgressed, as in the case of St Mary Graces near the tower of London.
In Cistercian abbeys the usual division between classes of guests appears to have been observed: thus at Fountains and Kirkstall there are remains of two guest-houses in the outer court.
In all there were thirty-one abbeys of the order in England, not counting two cells.
These houses, however, were ruled by their own abbots, not by priors dependent on the abbot of Cîteaux; and thus the Cistercian abbeys were saved from the difficulties which befell the Cluniac in common with other alien houses.
In the work of organisation ecclesiastics from the great abbeys of Normandy took, as was natural, the chief part.
Augustinian houses varied greatly in size and wealth, and at no time did their wealthier abbeys approach the immense revenues of the greater Benedictine houses; while their average income was very moderate.
Most of the abbeys and monasteries, which present themselves to the eye of the traveller, have either been converted into hospitals or manufactories.
The buildings of this period were chiefly the churches and abbeysfounded by Margaret and her descendants.
The clergy trembled for their benefices; the landed gentry for their abbeys and great tithes.
Dr de Gray Birch, who has also published histories of the Abbeys of Neath and Margam.
Give us a torch, say I, and march upon all the castles and abbeys in the land--the sooner the better.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "abbeys" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
