 | John Britton - 1812 - 1070 páginas
...monastery in his time says, 'there remained only some relics of its ancient magnificence. There were so many ruined churches, and such immense heaps of rubbish, as were not elsewhere to be found.' Leland,f describing it many centuries after, observes, that the abbey stood in a fair valley of English... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1812 - 1052 páginas
...monastery in his time says, 'there remained only some relics of its ancient magnificence. There were so many ruined churches, and such immense heaps of rubbish, as were not elsewhere to be found.' Leland,f describing it many centuries after, observes, that the abbey stood in a fair valley of English... | |
 | William Bingley - 1814 - 572 páginas
...— This unmanly slaughter 'the British annals and songs ascribe to the instigations of Augustine. Not long after this event the monastery became neglected,...churches, and such immense heaps * of rubbish, as were uot elsewhere to be found. — Leland says of it, in the reign of Henry VIII., that its site was in... | |
 | 1830 - 508 páginas
...monastery in his time, says, " there remained only some relics of its ancient magnificence. There were so many ruined churches, and such immense heaps of rubbish, as were not elsewhere to be found." Whoever visits Bangor with a view to contemplate the ruins of its far celebrated monastery, will be... | |
 | William Bingley - 1839 - 400 páginas
...Chester. This unmanly slaughter the British annals and songs ascribe to the instigations of Augustine. Not long after this event the monastery became neglected,...elsewhere to be found. — Leland says of it, in the reign of Henry VIII., that its site was in a fertile valley on the south side of the Dee ; but that... | |
 | William Bingley - 1839 - 414 páginas
...Chester. This unmanly slaughter the British annals and songs ascribe to the instigations of Augustine. magnificence: there were, he says, so many ruined...immense heaps of rubbish, as were not elsewhere to be found.—Leland says of it, in the reign of Henry VIII., that its site was in a fertile valley on the... | |
 | Joseph Hemingway - 1844 - 362 páginas
...Shortly after .this period followed the dreadful massacre of the monks, for which see the introduction. Not long after this event, the monastery became neglected,...of its ancient magnificence : there were he says, to many ruined churches, and such immense heaps of rubbish, as were not elsewhere to be found. Leland... | |
 | John Hicklin (of Chester.) - 1853 - 352 páginas
...they would not accept of peace with their brethren, they should receive war from their enemies." They refused obedience to his injunctions, and resolutely...be found. Leland says of it, in the time of Henry VII., that its site was in a fertile valley, on the south side of the Dee ; but that the river having... | |
 | 1862 - 582 páginas
...of its learned men, it was acknowledged to be the parent of all the other monasteries of the world." William, of Malmsbury, who lived shortly after the...of its ancient magnificence : there were he says, n many ruined churches, and such immense heaps of rubbish, as were not elsewhere to be found. Leland,... | |
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Not long after this event the monastery became neglected, and went entirely to decay. William of Malmsbury, who lived shortly after the Norman conquest, asserts, that even in his time there remained only some relics of its ancient magnificence : there... 