. The North Devon coast. ^the Second, this establishment was re-founded byGeoffry de Dynham as a monastery under Augus-tine rule ; and through the centuries it prosperedin this remote valley progressively enriched bythe pious and the wicked alike : by the pious outof their piety, and by the wicked by way of com-pounding for their sins. And at last it ended inthe usual confiscating way which makes the storyof the monasteries in the time of Henry the Eighthseem to some so unmerited a tragedy, and to othersa tardy, but well-earned retribution. From theAbbot who surrendered Hartland Abbey and itsl
. The North Devon coast. ^the Second, this establishment was re-founded byGeoffry de Dynham as a monastery under Augus-tine rule ; and through the centuries it prosperedin this remote valley progressively enriched bythe pious and the wicked alike : by the pious outof their piety, and by the wicked by way of com-pounding for their sins. And at last it ended inthe usual confiscating way which makes the storyof the monasteries in the time of Henry the Eighthseem to some so unmerited a tragedy, and to othersa tardy, but well-earned retribution. From theAbbot who surrendered Hartland Abbey and itslands to Henry the Eighth, the property went by. HARTLAND ABBEY 231 royal gift to one whose own name was, curiouslyenough, Abbott. From him it descended in turnto the Luttrells, the Orchards, and the Bucks,who in 1858 changed their name to Stucley. Itwas an Orchard who in 1779 built the existingmansion, that is seated so comfortably in thesheltered green strath, away from the windsrioting on those exposed uplands from which wehave just now descended. He built in that allu-sive architectural style for which one may cointhe word ecclesiesque ; a midway haltingbetween church architecture and to say, he retained the Early Englishcloisters of the old Abbey, and here they are tothis day. It really is strange that he should—or thathis architect, for him, should—have kept thecloisters, for the spirit of the age—it was the ageof Horace Walpole, you know—was remarkablyaddicted to a kind of wry-necked appreciation ofGothic architecture, and given to destroy genuineantiquities, only to erect on the site of them imita-ti
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