South London . was that lane called Bermondsey or Barnsie or BarnabieLane, which ran from the Abbey to St. Olaves and so toLondon Bridge. It was not, like , a placeof traffic and resort. It lay alone and secluded, scpaiatcdfrom the noise and racket of life. When the marsh had beengradually drained and the Embankment continued throughRolhcrhithe to Doptford and b(.)()nd the Greenwich levels, H 2 52 SOUTH LONDON the Abbey lands round the islet became extremely fertile andwooded and covered with sheep and cattle. The House was founded in the year 1182 by one AilwinChilde, a merchant o
South London . was that lane called Bermondsey or Barnsie or BarnabieLane, which ran from the Abbey to St. Olaves and so toLondon Bridge. It was not, like , a placeof traffic and resort. It lay alone and secluded, scpaiatcdfrom the noise and racket of life. When the marsh had beengradually drained and the Embankment continued throughRolhcrhithe to Doptford and b(.)()nd the Greenwich levels, H 2 52 SOUTH LONDON the Abbey lands round the islet became extremely fertile andwooded and covered with sheep and cattle. The House was founded in the year 1182 by one AilwinChilde, a merchant of the City, an Alderman also and one ofthe ruling families of London. He was the son of an elderAilwin, who was a member of that Knighten Guild which,with all its members and all its property—the land whichnow forms the Ward of Portsoken—went over to the Prioryof the Holy Trinity. Religion of a practical and real kind. RERMONPSEY AliliEY was therefore hereditar} in the family. The elder Ailwinbecame a monk, the younger founded a monaster} ; his son,the third of the family of whom we know anything, becamethe first Mayor of London, and remained Mayor for twenty-four years—the rest of his life. The whole of histor\- from the ninth to the fifteenthcentury is full of a pathetic longing after a religious Order,if that could be found, of true and proved sanctity. OneOrder after the other arises ; one after the other challenges A FORGOTTEN MONASTERY 5: respect for reputed holiness of a new and hitherto unknownkind : in fact, it commands the respect of the people whoahva}S admire voluntary privation of what they value so .»z- ^^ .1- ?W^- >» -•
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