. The greater abbeys of England. e professionof arms had betaken himself to the religious life in thecloister at Evesham. These monks took with them onlythe necessary books and vestments for Mass, which werecarried on the back of a patient ass. The first of the littleband of monks remained at Newcastle, the second estab-lished himself at Jarrow, and Reinfrid refounded Whitbyas a monastery of Benedictines, being helped by thegifts of Hugh, Earl of Chester, and of William dePercy. Reinfrid appears to have lived till 1084, and was fol-lowed in his office of prior by two of the family of Percy,the
. The greater abbeys of England. e professionof arms had betaken himself to the religious life in thecloister at Evesham. These monks took with them onlythe necessary books and vestments for Mass, which werecarried on the back of a patient ass. The first of the littleband of monks remained at Newcastle, the second estab-lished himself at Jarrow, and Reinfrid refounded Whitbyas a monastery of Benedictines, being helped by thegifts of Hugh, Earl of Chester, and of William dePercy. Reinfrid appears to have lived till 1084, and was fol-lowed in his office of prior by two of the family of Percy,the brother and the son of one of the founders. In thereign of Henry I the abbey had grown in numbers andimportance, and the King added considerably to its pos-sessions, and granted to it the dues of a port or havenat Whitby. At this time the number of the communitywould appear to have been thirty-six or thirty-eight. Atsome time between 1109-1127 the monastery was createdan abbey, and in the middle of the same century it was [306]. ?-•* - ^^ J- i^a
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