The ruined abbeys of Yorkshire . orced and painful silence of the peopledcloister and the clustered cells which at the end of more thorough and relentless even than that ofRobert, Bernard and Stephen Harding. The ex-treme austerity of the Carthusian rule had, we mustsuppose, left the field to the more popular Cistercians,and Witham and Henton, both in Somersetshire,were long the only houses of the Order in between 1344 and 1414 no less than sevenCarthusian priories were founded, and among them,in 1397, The House of Mount Grace of Ingleby,dedicated to St. Mary and St. Nicholas. Thom
The ruined abbeys of Yorkshire . orced and painful silence of the peopledcloister and the clustered cells which at the end of more thorough and relentless even than that ofRobert, Bernard and Stephen Harding. The ex-treme austerity of the Carthusian rule had, we mustsuppose, left the field to the more popular Cistercians,and Witham and Henton, both in Somersetshire,were long the only houses of the Order in between 1344 and 1414 no less than sevenCarthusian priories were founded, and among them,in 1397, The House of Mount Grace of Ingleby,dedicated to St. Mary and St. Nicholas. Thomas Holland was then Duke of Surrey, andthe favoured and trusted nephew of the King. Butwhen, only two years later, Richard II. was deposed,the Duke became once more Earl of Kent, and therich and powerful patron of the Carthusians wastransformed into an impotent rebel, and finally suf-fered as a traitor. So the Monastery of the Assump-tion of Our Lady of Mount Grace, as it seems tohave been mostly called, was left unfinished, and. Mount Grace Priory. 49 the monks uncertain as to their title to those far-offmidland and southern lands at Hinchley, Warham,and Carisbrooke, which the deposed monarch hadgranted to his favourite. At last, however, in 1440,Henry VI. confirmed the original grants, and buildingoperations were resumed and soon completed. Sanctce et siugn/ares—saintly and singular, in-deed, were the observances which had won the ad-miration of the luckless Duke of Surrey. Not in thefast of eight months out of twelve, the refusal of meateven to the sick, the substitution of flannel for linenin bedding as well as clothes, lies the peculiar hard-ship of the Carthusian rule, but rather in that whichthe ruins now before us so vividly recall—the isolationof each monk in his own little hut and walled garden,the silence en- joined eventhe statedtivals when onfes-the
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