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Title: The greater abbeys of England
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Gasquet, Francis Aidan, Cardinal, 1846-1929
Subjects: Abbeys -- England England -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Chatto & Windus
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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u, and in 1491 Perkin Warbeckfor a time was harboured within its walls. In this lattercase, however, watch was kept day and night upon theplace by Lord Daubigny, who surrounded the wallswith 300 horsemen,and ultimately, seeing escape hope-less, Perkin Warbeck surrendered to them. In the list of abbots are to be found the names ofthree who subsequently became bishops in England.These were Hugh, who was made Bishop of Carlislein 1218 and was the builder of the choir of his cathe-dral ; Tideman of Winchcombe, created Bishop ofWorcester in 1380, and Thomas Skeffington, Bishop ofBangor in 1505, who built the tower of the cathedral. Besides the daughter-houses already named, Beaulieuestablished two cells, one in Cornwall, at a place calledLlanachebran or St Keveran, where there had been ahouse of secular canons till the Norman conquest; andFarringdon in Berkshire. This last-named was a manorwhich had been given by King John to Citeaux in1203 on condition that an abbey of the Order should 34
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Beaulieu be founded there; but the next year, 1204, on theestabHshment of Beaulieu in Hampshire, it was agreedthat the donation should be transferred to this house,and a few monks of Beaulieu were established hereunder the ordinary conditions which regulated thegovernment of the cells of any abbey. It is a well-known historical fact that many in-justices were perpetrated in the dissolution of thesmaller monasteries which had been granted to Cardi-nal Wolsey to make his foundations at Oxford andIpswich. Amongst others, and unjustly, as it was a cellof a greater house, was St Keverans, Cornwall, whichbelonged to Beaulieu. The abbot at the time wasThomas Skeryngton, who was also bishop of Bangor,and he wrote to the Cardinal to protest against thehigh-handed proceedings of his agents. The property,he says, had been given to the abbey by Richard Earlof Cornwall 400 years before, and it had now beensuddenly seized, and he who had taken it wrote to saythat the benefice which is impropriated

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