South London . S admire voluntary privation of what they value so .»z- ^^ .1- ?W^- >» -•. GATEWAY OF BERMONDSKY ABBEY much — food and drink ; it receives endowments, gifts,foundations of all kinds ; it then departs from the ancientrule, and quickly loses its hold upon the people. This is the 54 SOUTH LONDON simple history of Benedictine, Franciscan, Cistercian, and allthe rest. However, at the close of the eleventh century theCluniac was in the highest repute for a rigid Rule, strictlykept : and for an austerity strictly enforced. It was aCluniac House which Ailwin Childe set up in Bermonds
South London . S admire voluntary privation of what they value so .»z- ^^ .1- ?W^- >» -•. GATEWAY OF BERMONDSKY ABBEY much — food and drink ; it receives endowments, gifts,foundations of all kinds ; it then departs from the ancientrule, and quickly loses its hold upon the people. This is the 54 SOUTH LONDON simple history of Benedictine, Franciscan, Cistercian, and allthe rest. However, at the close of the eleventh century theCluniac was in the highest repute for a rigid Rule, strictlykept : and for an austerity strictly enforced. It was aCluniac House which Ailwin Childe set up in Bermondsey,and which Earl de Warren, who also founded the CluniacHouse of Lewes, enriched. This Priory, with thirty-seven other Houses, was an Alienowing obedience to the Abbot of Cluny. A large part of itsrevenues, therefore, was sent out of the country, and it re-ceived its Priors from abroad. In the reign of Henry theFifth the growing dissatisfaction on account of the AlienPriories came to a head, and they were all suppressed, or atleast cut off from obedience to the Mother Convent. ThePrio
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