. The greater abbeys of England. ^ towards us andour commonwealth and then to try and get them to go toother religious houses of the Order or to receive secular [377] THE GREATER ABBEYS habit. It is unnecessary to speculate as to whetherHenry had any serious designs of re-establishing WhalleyAbbey. If he had, his design quickly passed away, forby Michaelmas, 1537, one John Kechin had been ap-pointed receiver at Whalley, and had already been atwork to some effect. He had sold goods and got in rentsto the value of £957 us. 7d., had already sent up to BrianTuke, the Kings treasurer, some £491 is.

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. The greater abbeys of England. ^ towards us andour commonwealth and then to try and get them to go toother religious houses of the Order or to receive secular [377] THE GREATER ABBEYS habit. It is unnecessary to speculate as to whetherHenry had any serious designs of re-establishing WhalleyAbbey. If he had, his design quickly passed away, forby Michaelmas, 1537, one John Kechin had been ap-pointed receiver at Whalley, and had already been atwork to some effect. He had sold goods and got in rentsto the value of £957 us. 7d., had already sent up to BrianTuke, the Kings treasurer, some £491 is. lod., and hadpaid away £100 for the carriage of the bullion to Whalley, as apparently in the case of all other mo-nasteries, the superiors of which had been attainted, noneof the monks received any pension on being turned out oftheir old home to find their way in the world as best theymight. THE END [378] APR -0 n« «f :^. WESTMINSTER ABBEY : NAVE AND CHOIR FROM THE WEST THE GREATER ABBEYS OF ENGLAND BY ABBOT GASQUET WITH ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR AFTERWARWICK GOBLEgreaterabbeysofe01gasq

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