English
Monasteries
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CHAPTER-HOUSE CHAPEL, NEWSTEAD PRIORY
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ENGLISH
MONASTERIES
From Saxon Days to their
Dissolution
London
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1904
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Introduction
In accordance with many requests, the followingsketch of some of the features of monastic life inEngland is reprinted from The Church Times, in asomewhat extended and slightly amended form.
It has been suggested that it would be helpfulto students to give a list of authorities on whichthese pages are based. A large number of authorities,such as monastic chartularies and customaries,and episcopal registers, only exist in manuscript;but the following are some of the principal printedbooks, in addition to the extended edition in eightvols. of Dugdale’s Monasticon:
English Monastic Life (1904). Abbot Gasquet.
Customary of the Benedictine Monasteries of St. Augustine,Canterbury, and St. Peter, Westminster (1902). HenryBradshaw Society.
Observances of the Austin Priory of Barnwell (1897).J. Willis Clark.
Mediæval England (1903), Chaps. 3, 9, 15. Mary Bateson.
Rites and Customs of Durham (1842). Surtees Society.
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Halmota Prioratus Dunelmensis (1886). Surtees Society.
Durham Account Rolls, 3 vols. (1898-1900). SurteesSociety.
St. Gilbert of Sempringham and the Gilbertines (1902).Rose Graham.
Gesta Abbatum S. Albani, and other monastic volumes ofthe Rolls Series, including Nos. 8, 28, 29, 33, 36, 43, 45,72, 78, 79, 85, and 96.
The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakeland, of Bury St. Edmunds(1903). Sir Ernest Clarke.
The Obedientiaries of Abingdon Abbey (1902). CamdenSociety.
Records of Wroxall (1904). J. P. Rylands.
Saint Anselm (1888), Chap. 3. Dean Church.
A Consuetudinary of St. Swithun’s (1886). Dean Kitchin.
Obedientiary Rolls of St. Swithun’s (1892). Dean Kitchin.
Charters and Records of Cluni (1888). Sir G. Duckett.
Rentalia et Custumaria of Glastonbury. Somers