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Title: The greater abbeys of England
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Gasquet, Francis Aidan, Cardinal, 1846-1929
Subjects: Abbeys -- England England -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Chatto & Windus
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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lver aspergill;also a silver cross, gilt, to place on the altar when theabbot celebrated; also a silver pastoral staff. There werealso purchased two sets of vestments. In 1378 a parliament was held at Gloucester. Itcommenced on October 22 and lasted till December 16.During the session the King remained sometimes atGloucester abbey and sometimes in that of Tewkesbury.At all times during these two months the crowd wasso great that the monks were put to no little incon-venience and expense. The detailed account which hascome down to us says that at times the place seemedmore like a fair than a religious house, and it notesthat the grass-plot of the cloister was so trodden by thevisitors playing games that not a vestige of green couldbe seen when the session of Parliament came to an end. On the Sunday before the close of the parliament.High Mass was sung by the abbot of Gloucester in thepresence of the King, the two archbishops, twelvebishops and many noblemen. After Mass the King was 118
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CI.OISTKK AND LAVATOKIUM, GLOfCl:;STER CATHEDRAL Gloucester entertained in the refectory at a magnificent repast,set out with great splendour by the community. The last abbot, William Malvern or Parker, waselected on May 4, 1515, and his community then con-sisted of thirty-four monks. The antiquary BrowneWillis considers that probably he was got rid of bythe royal commissioners before the suppression of thehouse. His name does not appear on the deed of sur-render, which was signed on January 2, 1539, the re-ligious being expelled as soon as possible afterwards.One who deeply felt the sadness of the catastrophewhich overwhelmed Gloucester, after its centuries ofcorporate life, has written thus of the last services heldby the monksln their choir* Having existed for morethan eight centuries under different forms, in povertyand in wealth, in meanness and in magnificence, inmisfortune and in success, it finally succumbed to theroyal will; the day came, and that a dreary winter day,when its

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