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Title: The ruined abbeys of Yorkshire
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Lefroy, William, 1836-1900
Subjects: Abbeys
Publisher: London, Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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ry who had rejected in turn the Cluniac, Cister-cian, and Carthusian orders—the Austin Canons seem * From the days of Chrodegangus, bishop of Metz, in themiddle of the eighth century, there was clearly something notvery unlike a rule for the canons ; and in 817 we find certainchanges introduced, especially in a curious point as to inherit-ance by canons of their bishops movables. t At the Lateran Council, A.D. 1139, Pope Innocent II.ordained that all Regular Canons should submit to the rule ofSt. Austin in his 109th Epistle. From this order afterwardsproceeded both Peter Martyr and Martin Luther. P 54 The Ruined Abbeys of Yorkshire. to have been especially congenial. Among these,we find him saying, one is well shod, well clothed,well fed. The date and place of the introduction ofthis order into England has been much disputed. Malmesbury seems to be conclusive in favour ofthis view.* I have alluded in the first paper of this series tothe jealous antagonism which, even before the Con-
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RICHMOND CASTLE. The editor of the Monasticon inclines to BishopTanners theory that the first foundation of Regularor Augustinian Canons was at Colchester, and gives1105 as the probable date. But Mr. Freeman andProfessor Stubbs tell us that Lanfranc introducedthe order at Canterbury; and Lanfranc died in1089. Mr. Freemans quotation from William of quest, existed between the monks and the secularclergy. It may, therefore, be interesting to noticethat Lanfranc, the first to bring regular canons toEngland, was at the same time the constant champion * Stubbs, Const. Hist., Vol. I., p. 327 ; Freeman, NormanConquest, Vol. IV., p. 363. Easby and Egglcston. 55 of the monks against those who would have handedover all our cathedrals to the seculars. The sec ofCarlisle, founded by Henry I., seems to have beenthe first, and indeed the only instance, of the esta-blishment in England of Regular Canons as acathedral body; though the Scotch, in the twelfth andthirteenth centuries, set the example in

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