. The greater abbeys of England. d departed on his hunting expedition in which he methis death. Abbot Serlo was succeeded in 1104 by Peter, the for-mer prior of the house. Peter had long devoted himselfto the study of the Holy Scriptures, and of him the obit-uary notice says that during his term of office he encom-passed the monastery with a wall and enriched the cloisterwith a number of books. There exists a remarkablememorial of Abbot Peter in the Art Museum of SouthKensington; it is a candlestick of splendid workmanship,the date of which is known with certainty. An inscrip-tion on it states
. The greater abbeys of England. d departed on his hunting expedition in which he methis death. Abbot Serlo was succeeded in 1104 by Peter, the for-mer prior of the house. Peter had long devoted himselfto the study of the Holy Scriptures, and of him the obit-uary notice says that during his term of office he encom-passed the monastery with a wall and enriched the cloisterwith a number of books. There exists a remarkablememorial of Abbot Peter in the Art Museum of SouthKensington; it is a candlestick of splendid workmanship,the date of which is known with certainty. An inscrip-tion on it states that it was made by the Abbot Peter forhis church at Gloucester. It is of latten richly gilt andmost elaborately ornamented, and it is undoubtedly awonderful specimen of English art of the period. It isprobable, however, that it did not remain long at Glou-cester, as in 1122 a disastrous fire again broke out there,which destroyed everything except a few books and vest-ments, and in this fire the candlestick would probably [160]. < QWXH<O w H CO u o O
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