. The greater abbeys of England . Crowlandtury, it must, of course, be received with some caution,although it no doubt gives the traditional account of thedestruction of the abbey and its gradual restoration inthe time before the Norman conquest. In 1076 theConqueror made Ingulph abbot of his monastery atCrowland, and at the time he took possession of hischarge he found sixty-two monks, of whom four werelay brothers. Besides this there are said to have beenactually in residence there more than a hundred monksof other monasteries, who were called comprofessi^who came and went apparently as they
. The greater abbeys of England . Crowlandtury, it must, of course, be received with some caution,although it no doubt gives the traditional account of thedestruction of the abbey and its gradual restoration inthe time before the Norman conquest. In 1076 theConqueror made Ingulph abbot of his monastery atCrowland, and at the time he took possession of hischarge he found sixty-two monks, of whom four werelay brothers. Besides this there are said to have beenactually in residence there more than a hundred monksof other monasteries, who were called comprofessi^who came and went apparently as they liked. Whenthere, they had a seat in the refectory, a stall in thechurch, and a bed in the common dormitory. Thesemonks, belonging to various destroyed monasteries,apparently made Crowland a place of refuge in diffi-cult days. At this time— 1076—of the comprofessiin the house, ten were from Thorney, six from Peter-borough, eight from Ramsey, nine from St Edmunds-bury, ten from Westminster, fifteen from Thetford,fourteen
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