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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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ndissons Register (p. 1563seqq.) and edited by Prebendary Hingeston-Randolph.The earliest written record, apparently, states that themonastery was in the possession of the monks of theorder of Savigny, that is, of those who followed the ruleof the house founded by Blessed Vitalis of Savigny in1112, which house, the mother of many daughter monas-teries, became identified with the Cistercian movement.The Baron of Totnes Castle, a few miles away down theDart from Buckfast, appears as one of the early bene-factors of that monastery. He came to the Chapter and,with his two sons, assenting with entire hearts, he gavelands to the Norman monks from Savigny that they mightsing daily the Mary Mass for the welfare of his ownsoul and for the soul of Alice his wife, of his ancestors andhis posterity. He reserves to himself and his people aright of way to a ford over the Dart, when they shouldwish to go to market to Ashburton. The ford, says amodern writer, has long been disused, but the house (so)
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I BUCKFAST ABBEY above it on the Ashburton side, still bears the name of Priestaford; A charter of Henry II, witnessed by Archbishop Theo-bald and St. Thomas Becket, when Chancellor, and con-firming all the privileges and grants of land, etc., heldby the monastery in the time of Henry I, his grandfather,is the next piece of the written history of Buckfast thathas come down to us. Then about the year 1240 a certainSir Robert de Hellion of Ashton, owning a mansion andlands called Hosefenne, about a mile and a half from theabbey, moved possibly by the austerity of life led by theCistercian monks of Buckfast, resolved to give them somewine on the great festivals. For this purpose he be-stowed this manor of Hosefenne upon * St. Mary ofBuckfast, and the monks serving God there. In ac-knowledgment, the religious are to present him and hisheirs forever with a pound of wax on the feast of the As-sumption. Out of the revenues of the manor the abbotwas to provide his monks yearly with sixty-four

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