. The key to the family deed chest : how to decipher and study old documents : being a guide to the reading of ancient manuscripts. IflllllSilliili 1 p IP !i!jijl i y*» 111i h j-mh liililii^liil^lQx1- §BD Uti. N « s • •_> r — U - < « U- k < * •J <i / t* < ^ Monastu t hart, at Shinfield, only discovered U workmen daring some repairs in the last century. This book is a good example of its kind, beingperfect as the day when it was first hidden it arc written the grants of lands from thAbbeys second foundation by Henry I. \possessions given bit by bit—generally by th<fami
. The key to the family deed chest : how to decipher and study old documents : being a guide to the reading of ancient manuscripts. IflllllSilliili 1 p IP !i!jijl i y*» 111i h j-mh liililii^liil^lQx1- §BD Uti. N « s • •_> r — U - < « U- k < * •J <i / t* < ^ Monastu t hart, at Shinfield, only discovered U workmen daring some repairs in the last century. This book is a good example of its kind, beingperfect as the day when it was first hidden it arc written the grants of lands from thAbbeys second foundation by Henry I. \possessions given bit by bit—generally by th<families whose ancestors lay buried in the abbe}church, for whose souls prayers were inventories of relics are very curious, andthe vestments also are described. There is along list of the books in the abbey libraries ofReading and Leominster. All the books in thislong list disappeared, no one knows where or volumes, a missal and a book of hours, saidonce to have been part of the abbey library, weresold by auction in 1889. Nor was Reading theonly instance of the total disappearance of valuablemonastic manuscripts. Gasquet speaks of the wanton destruction ofmanuscrip
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