Fountains Abbey: The Story of a Mediœval Monastery (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Fountains Abbey: The Story of a Medioeval Monastery

They begin with a contemporary narrative of the foundation of the Abbey, and extend to the grant which the king made Of the Abbey lands after the suppression. They include the chronicle of the administrations of the abbots; the deed of the ground on which the Abbey stands; a series of royal charters and a series Of papal privileges; various records of the dealings of the Monastery with its neighbours, clerical and lay; letters to Thomas Cromwell from Layton and Legh, the commissioners at whose demand the Abbey was surrendered, and from Marmaduke Bradley, the abbot who surrendered it; and the king's assign ment of pensions by name to the abbot and the monks after the dissolution.

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