. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. ment as this wouldargue gross ignorance, and a mind incapable ofappreciating the real theory of tlie monastic life^ It has been observed by Mr. Spalding, in his workon Italy, that a medieval monastery with itscourts and cloister, its several buildings announcingtheir destination by their position—this of thesuperior, that of the dependent ; this public and \Vcs ] A BENEDICTINE MONASTERY. 4k 451 It is scarcely necessary to do more than state herethat the reHgious Hfe, in some shape or other,dates fro
. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. ment as this wouldargue gross ignorance, and a mind incapable ofappreciating the real theory of tlie monastic life^ It has been observed by Mr. Spalding, in his workon Italy, that a medieval monastery with itscourts and cloister, its several buildings announcingtheir destination by their position—this of thesuperior, that of the dependent ; this public and \Vcs ] A BENEDICTINE MONASTERY. 4k 451 It is scarcely necessary to do more than state herethat the reHgious Hfe, in some shape or other,dates from the first century of the Christian was only by degrees, however, that it developeditself in the Church, the hermits and recluses ofthe earlier ages abounding in Egypt and the bury, St. Albans, Abingdon, Canterbury, West-minster, &c. In fact, in a certain sense, nearlyall the well-known monasteries followed the ruleof St. Benedict, whether they were Cistercians,Carthusians, Cluniacs, or whatever the name oftheir discipline ; it is said that all our cathedral. THE CHAPTER HOUSE PREVIOUS TO ITS RESTORATION. countries nearest to the Holy Land. St. Benedict,who founded the noble monastery of Monte Casinoin Italy in 530-32, is generally regarded asthe founder—though in reality he was only there-founder and reformer—of the monastic systemin the Western or Latin Church. His rule wasbrought into England by St. Augustine ; and if notbefore, at all events soon after, the Norman Con-quest, the chief and wealthiest abbeys in ourcountry were thqse of the Benedictines—Glastpn- priories, except Carlisle, were of the Benedictineorder, and that the revenues of the Benedictineabbeys exceeded those of all the rest of thereligious bodies put together. Water, a mill, a garden, an oven, iS:c., saysMr. Wood, in his Ecclesiastical Antiquities, were provided within the precincts of a Bene-dictine monastery to prevent necessity arising forthe monks going abroad. When any of the mo
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