The British nation a history / by George MWrong . 4^% & -. J. r ^^^Tr .f^ -i-^hji MOXASTEIJY. Coiijecturul lestonitioii of Kirkstall Abbt-y as in li;tu. who were obliged to keep accurate accounts of everyfarthing which they spent. To each monk was assignedhis task; he taught in the monastery school, or worked inthe garden, or wrote the precious chronicles which areour chief sources of information for the life of mediaevalEngland, or shared in the other industries of a great andself-contained household. The moiuistery often had a con-siderable body of lay workmen—its millers, shoemakers
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . 4^% & -. J. r ^^^Tr .f^ -i-^hji MOXASTEIJY. Coiijecturul lestonitioii of Kirkstall Abbt-y as in li;tu. who were obliged to keep accurate accounts of everyfarthing which they spent. To each monk was assignedhis task; he taught in the monastery school, or worked inthe garden, or wrote the precious chronicles which areour chief sources of information for the life of mediaevalEngland, or shared in the other industries of a great andself-contained household. The moiuistery often had a con-siderable body of lay workmen—its millers, shoemakers,carpenters, tailors, and blacksmiths—and it spent vastreveinies u])on building. Ihe life had its own excite-ments. There were lawsuits with the l)ishop in regard toexemptions from his authority; towns grew up on uum-astery lands, and then dues were to be collected and rights CIVILIZATION IX THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY 135 to be defined; there were appeals, sometimes to the king,sometimes to Rome. The monks journeyed far on tiiebusiness of the convent, and t
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