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Title: The greater abbeys of England
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929
Subjects: Abbeys
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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em chamber and whatis now the dormitory of the boys, also two sides of thecloister, the south and west walks, as we have them now.Beyond his additions to the buildings. Abbot Litlingtongave much to the sacristy in the way of plate and preciousvestments. At Westminster there was a celebrated and frequentlyused sanctuary. On the return of Henry VI to the thronein 1740, for instance, Elizabeth, Queen of Edward IV,took sanctuary, and whilst still here a prince was born and christened in the abbey, whose godfathers werethe abbot and prior of the said place. The prince in timebecame King Edward V, when the abbot, ThomasMillyng, his godfather, was promoted to the See of Here-ford. In 1483 John Estney, Millyngs successor, againreceived the Queen of Edward IV into sanctuary, whithershe had fled with five princesses on the arrest of EarlRivers. The news was taken to Archbishop Rotherhamthe Chancellor, who was then at York Place, near West-minster. Whereupon, says the historian, the Bishop (356)
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u Oh< u IT) WESTMINSTER called up his servants before daylight . . . and came be-fore day to the Queen, about whom he found much heavi-ness, rumble, haste, business, conveyance and carriage ofher stuff into sanctuary. Every man was busy to carry,bear and convey stuff, chests and ferdelles; no man wasunoccupied and some carried more than they were com-manded to another place. The Queen sat alone below onthe rushes all desolate and dismayed. . . . And when heopened his windows and looked on the Thames, he mightsee the river full of boats of the Duke of Gloucester hisservants watching that no person should go to sanctuarynor none should pass unsearched. It was just before this time that under the patronage ofof Abbot Estney, Caxton began to exercise here the art ofprinting, and set up the first printing press in Englandwithin the precincts of Westminster Abbey. In the year1500 John Islip was unanimously elected abbot. At thatperiod it seemed almost certain that Henry VI wouldhave been

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