Highways and byways in Surrey . Abbey, the mother of the Abbeys ofGarendon, Ford, Combe and Thame, and the grandmother ofseven others; and its abbots had precedence in the chapters ofabbots throughout the order of Cistercians. The White Monks, as the Cistercians were called, used tochoose wild and lonely places for their churches, and WaverleyAbbey, which stands in fields even now sometimes flooded, inits early days was more than once in difficulties through rainand bad seasons. It was founded in 1128 by William Giffard, FLOODS AND HARVESTING 49 the second Bishop of Winchester after the Conque
Highways and byways in Surrey . Abbey, the mother of the Abbeys ofGarendon, Ford, Combe and Thame, and the grandmother ofseven others; and its abbots had precedence in the chapters ofabbots throughout the order of Cistercians. The White Monks, as the Cistercians were called, used tochoose wild and lonely places for their churches, and WaverleyAbbey, which stands in fields even now sometimes flooded, inits early days was more than once in difficulties through rainand bad seasons. It was founded in 1128 by William Giffard, FLOODS AND HARVESTING 49 the second Bishop of Winchester after the Conquest, and thebuildings were still unfinished when, in 1201, a great storminundated the Abbey, almost carried away its walls, and ruinedall its crops, wheat, hay, and flax. Two years later, from thefailure of the harvest after the flood, corn was so scarce thatthe monks had to scatter themselves among other Conventstill they could thresh another summers corn. In 1215 thespring from which they got all the water suddenly failed, and.
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