The New Forest and the Isle of WightWith eight plates and many other illustrations . Domestici—domestic or tame rabbits, if it please you, MasterSacristan. I have a dispensation, and am permitted to keep rabbitsin my cell, and their increase is singularly blessed. Infatuated Hardekyn ! He would not be warned ; he was taken THE ISLE OF WIGHT 37 red-handed ; put in viucula. Chains and prison were his lot till hethrew himself in tnisericordiam domin,e, on the mercy of the Lady ofthe Manor. The abbey has now almost as completely vanished as the recordsof its inhabitants. Parts of the wall of the p
The New Forest and the Isle of WightWith eight plates and many other illustrations . Domestici—domestic or tame rabbits, if it please you, MasterSacristan. I have a dispensation, and am permitted to keep rabbitsin my cell, and their increase is singularly blessed. Infatuated Hardekyn ! He would not be warned ; he was taken THE ISLE OF WIGHT 37 red-handed ; put in viucula. Chains and prison were his lot till hethrew himself in tnisericordiam domin,e, on the mercy of the Lady ofthe Manor. The abbey has now almost as completely vanished as the recordsof its inhabitants. Parts of the wall of the precinct, a fragment ofthe abbots kitchen, and of the guest house alone remain, convertedinto a house and farm buildings. The abbey church and all its subsidiary. %y ,v!,.j!»i!8it^^^-:>^;a>!--<lMfeW- UutAjifo!: ,jfa.;J| Vjj ^:mmr- Quarr Abbey. By John Fullwood. buildings were pulled down by John Mills, a Southampton merchant,who bought it after its confiscation, and the material sold as buildingstone. Those who are interested in the change of ideas in the matter of sitesfor houses will find matter for reflection in the contrast between thepositions chosen by the builders of Quarr Abbey and Osbornerespectively. The builders of each were probably ahead of their time in their views 38 THE ISLE OF WIGHT as to what constituted a desirable site for an establishment of the firstorder, both in size and from the social rank of its owners. But thebuilders of the abbey, like the builders of Osborne, had no thought, whenfirst selecting their site, of choosing one suited for defence. Like otherecclesiastics, they enjoyed the rare privilege of making their house forconvenience, not for safety, and they chose to place it in a valley slopinggent
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