ENGLISH MINSTERS

VOLUME II.

LONDON: PRINTED BY

SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE AND PARLIAMENT STREET

'Diverse and great solemn and honourable monasteries of the Realm wherein,
thanks be to GOD, religion was well kept and observed'-Act 27 Henry VIII.
c. 28, § 1

2. RULES OF SS. COLUMBA, GREGORY, AND BENEDICT

3. DOUBLE SYSTEM

4. GROWTH OF MONASTERIES

5. FEUDS OF MONKS AND CANONS

6. DECAY OF DISCIPLINE

7. NORMAN INFLUENCE

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CHRONOLOGICAL SEQUENCE OF FOUNDATIONS

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9. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION, CHOICE OF SITES

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10. ALL THE RELIGIOUS ORDERS UNDER THE RULE OF ST.

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KNIGHTS FOLLOWING THE RULE OF ST. AUSTIN

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