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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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the walls with 300 horsemen, and ultimately,seeing escape hopeless, Perkin Warbeck surrendered tothem. In the list of abbots are to be found the names of threewho subsequently became bishops in England. Thesewere Hugh, who was made Bishop of Carlisle in 1218and was the builder of the choir of his cathedral; Tide-man of Winchcombe, created bishop of Worcester in1380, and Thomas Skeffington, Bishop of Bangor 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 in 1203on condition that an abbey of the Order should be foundedthere; but the next year, 1204, on the establishment ofBeaulieu in Hampshire, it was agreed that the donationshould be transferred to this house, and a few monks of [44]
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BEAULIEU Beaulieu were established here under the ordinary condi-tions which regulated the government of the cells of anyabbey. It is a well-known historical fact that many injusticeswere perpetrated in the dissolution of the smaller mon-asteries which had been granted to Cardinal Wolsey tomake his foundations at Oxford and Ipswich. Amongstothers, and unjustly, as it was a cell of a greater house,was St. Keverans, Cornwall, which belonged to Beaulieu.The abbot at the time was Thomas Skeryngton, who wasalso bishop of Bangor, and he wrote to the Cardinal toprotest against the high-handed proceedings of his agents.The property, he says, had given to the abbey by RichardEarl of Cornwall 400 years before, and it had now beensuddenly seized and he who had taken it wrote to say that* the benefice which is impropriated to Beaulieu hemindeth to give to the finding of scholars. This letterof remonstrance was successful, and Beaulieu kept St.Keverans as part of its possessions till the dissoluti

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