 | Electronic journals - 1877 - 564 pages
...by Mu. PIGOOT, 5th S. vi. 416 ? Ellis's Letters contains the description by an eye-witness : — " The persons that cast the lead into fodders plucked...wherein the monks sat when they said service, which were !ike the seats in minsters, and burned them, and melted the lead therewithal), although there was wood... | |
 | Sussex Archaeological Society - Archaeology - 1850 - 312 pages
...church over them was not spared for their cause ?) and all things of price either spoiled, carried away, or defaced to the uttermost. The persons that...in minsters, and burned them, and melted the lead therewithal, although there was wood plenty within a flight shot of them." (V. iii, p. 32.) One of... | |
 | Sussex Archaeological Society - Archaeology - 1850 - 296 pages
...the church over them was not spared for their cause?) and all things of price either spoiled, carried away, or defaced to the uttermost. The persons that...in minsters, and burned them, and melted the lead therewithal, although there was wood plenty within a flight shot of them." (V. iii, p. 32.) One of... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1876 - 602 pages
...freestone and covered with lead.... The persons thnt cast the lead into fodders plucked up nil the peats in the choir, wherein the monks sat when they said...in minsters, and burned them, and melted the lead therewithal!, although there was wood plenty within a flightshot of them ; for the abbey stood among... | |
 | Great Britain - 1863 - 566 pages
...feeling by •which the wretched ppoilers were actuated, here as elsewhere. " The persons," he says, "that cast the lead into fodders, plucked up all the...in Minsters, and burned them, and melted the lead therewithal!, although there waa wood plenty within a flight-shot of them ; for the abbey stood among... | |
 | John Richard Walbran - 1863 - 546 pages
...persons," he says, " that cost the lead into fodders, plucked up all the scats in the choir, wbereiii the monks sat when they said service, which were like...in Minsters, and burned them, and melted the lead therewithal!, alth«bgh there was wood plenty within a flight-shot of them ; for the abbey stood among... | |
 | George Gresley Perry - Great Britain - 1879 - 724 pages
...what end should they stand, when the church over them was not spared for their cause), and all tiling of price either spoiled, carped away, or defaced to...in the choir, wherein the monks sat when they said sen-ice, which wore like to the seals in minsters, and burned them, and melted the lead therewithal... | |
 | Francis Aidan Gasquet - Great Britain - 1889 - 642 pages
...sakes) all things of price, either spoiled, carried away or defaced to the uttermost. "Thepersonswho cast the lead into fodders plucked up all the seats...seats in minsters, and burned them and melted the lead therewith, although there was wood plenty within a flight shot of them, for the abbey stood among woods... | |
 | George Hodges - Fiction - 1904 - 200 pages
...dormitory and refectory] with the cloister and all the buildings thereabout within the abbey walls. . . . The persons that cast the lead into fodders plucked up all the seats in the choir where the monks sat when they said ser where. The bells were taken down and carried off; one to be... | |
 | George Hodges - Fiction - 1904 - 198 pages
...dormitory and refectory] with the cloister and all the buildings thereabout within the abbey walls. . . . The persons that cast the lead into fodders plucked up all the seats in the choir where the monks sat when they said ser • . Thf bells were t •'.•'. ••: ..l ;>ti*; one to... | |
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Abbeys were divers noble men and women, yea and in some Abbeys Kings, whose tombs were regarded no more than the tombs of all other inferior persons : for to what end should they stand, when the Church over them was not spared for their cause), and all... 
