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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
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ll the cattle, corn, etc., for only a little over £100.When the wreckers had finished there were £21 worthof bell-metal and £40 worth of lead cast into foddersleft on the ground to sell. It is not difficult to understandwhere the choir-stall wood and the timbers of the roofwent to when the need to melt the lead was pressing;and judging from other instances, it would not be sur-prising to know that many a goodly missal and ancientchoir-book used at Netley went into the flames of the fireslit in chancel and nave to keep the pot a-boiling. Per-haps even the flames may account for the precious volumenoted by Leland in the library at Netley—RhetoricaCiceronis. The Cistercian monks wHo lived at Netley were soon(disposed of by the commissioners. The abbot, as I havesaid, had been appointed to the abbey of Beaulieu, whichit will be remembered was the mother house of Netley,so as the monks of the latter house had no wish to have capacities and leave the religious life, the most easy (206)
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o oo CQ< H2 NETLEY way to get rid of them was to send them all to Beaulieu.We can, perhaps, imagine their feelings as they wereshipped across the Southampton water on the first stageof their short journey to their new home. Probably fromthe boat, as they looked back over the waters in theirpassage, they were able to see the smoke and flames risingfrom their church and monastery, and by this token toknow that the work of wrecking and destroying all thatthey had loved so well was in full progress. According to Browne Willis, the great destruction ofthe abbey church commenced about the period when thebuildings were inhabited by the Earl of Huntingdon,who converted the nave or west end into a kitchen andoffices. Soon after the beginning of the eighteenth cen-tury the materials of the whole fabric were sold to a Mr.Walter Taylor, a builder of Southampton, but an acci-dent which soon after befell Mr. Taylor saved the ruins.At this time it would appear that the church remained inan almost

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