. The greater abbeys of England. 4 . • « ^. BUCKFAST ABBEY became the property of Sir Thomas Dennys, a large sharerin the spoils of the religious houses. To prevent the bellsof the abbey church being broken in pieces and sold forthe price of the metal, the inhabitants of Buckfastleigh, bySir Thomas Arundel, the Kings official, paid £33 15s. forthem. [571 BURY ST. EDMUNDS ^^^^^HE great Abbey of Bury arose on the spot toM C| which the relics of St. Edmund the King were^^^^^ brought for burial after his martyrdom by theDanes in 870. For some time the body lay inthe old wooden chapel at Hoxne unti
. The greater abbeys of England. 4 . • « ^. BUCKFAST ABBEY became the property of Sir Thomas Dennys, a large sharerin the spoils of the religious houses. To prevent the bellsof the abbey church being broken in pieces and sold forthe price of the metal, the inhabitants of Buckfastleigh, bySir Thomas Arundel, the Kings official, paid £33 15s. forthem. [571 BURY ST. EDMUNDS ^^^^^HE great Abbey of Bury arose on the spot toM C| which the relics of St. Edmund the King were^^^^^ brought for burial after his martyrdom by theDanes in 870. For some time the body lay inthe old wooden chapel at Hoxne until its removal, some-where about 903, to the spot called at that time Beodrics-worth, but now known as St. Edmunds Bury. In 946Edmund, son of Edmund the Elder, granted lands to the* keepers of the body, consisting of four priests and twodeacons, who were, apparently, members of a body ofsecular clergy. This college of secular priests, as we maycall it, was replaced about A. D. 1020 by Benedictinemonks, brought from St. Bennets, Hulme, and
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