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Title: Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Bonney, Thomas George, 1833-1923
Subjects: Cathedrals Church architecture Abbeys Church architecture
Publisher: London : Cassell
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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rsed more than five centuries later, was unacceptable tothe citizens of Gloucester, and the followers of the portreeve, Wulphin le Rue, fellupon seven of the monks and slew them near the banks of the Severn. AYvdphin wascompelled to make a pilgrimage to Rome, and only obtained pardon for the crime oncondition that he gave two of his best manors—Highnam and Churcham—to theabbey. The first abbot of the new order was Edric, one of the secular canons, whotook the tonsure and the monks cowl in order that he might enjoy this honour.But Edrics heart was ill at ease. The Benedictine monks were imbued (so the 208 CATHEDRAL CllVRCllES. (Gloucestbb. memorial says) with no saving knowledge, nor were they under the restraint of ajust conscience ; so troubles came upon them—St. Peters was spoiled by the Danes,and the monks were driven out. Edric went away disgusted and disheartened,and died, and was buried elsewhere. In 1051 there was a gi^eat meeting of Edward the Confessor and his nobles at
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THE CATHEDRAL, FKOM THE NORTH-WEST. Gloucester. Godwin, Earl of Kent, came there with his sons and a large force, andcomplained of the wrong done to his people, the burghers of Dover, by Eustaceof Boulogne. Two years later there was another meeting at Gloucester to organisea raid on the territory of a Welsh prince. The position of Gloucester as a frontiertown gave it an importance in the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuiiesinferior only to that of London, York, and Winchester. During the reign of Edward the Confessor the style of architecture whichwe call Norman was introduced into England, and soon after the foundation ofWestminster, Aldred, Bishop of the Hwiccas, commenced an abbey in this style atGloucester. By the seventh year of the Confessors reign the under-croft, the choir. Qloucesteu.) COMMENCEMENT OF THE BUILDING. 209 and the chapter-house were completed, and dedicated to St. Peter. The new churchwas not exactly on the site of Osrics. About this time the boundaries of

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