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GLASTONBURY ABBEY.
26
1507, and the eighteenth of the reign of Henry VII., the
abbey had grown into a moft magnificent pile, full of opulence
and dead men’s bones, and its lands and lordfhips to an ampli-
tude which required a volume merely to enumerate them.
Such a volume the abbot Richard Beere had compiled from
GLASTONBURY ABBEY, CHANTRY CHAPEL.
adlual furveys and perambulations, which was duly preferved
in the abbey library, of which the mere extracts given by John
of Salifbury amount to fixty-fix pages. Thomas Sutton,
“ humilimus, quanquam lonnge indignus, hujus facri ccenobii
profefius, officium gerens cellerarii forinfici,” who wrote the
book called the “Terrarium coenobii Glaftonienfis,” tells us
26
1507, and the eighteenth of the reign of Henry VII., the
abbey had grown into a moft magnificent pile, full of opulence
and dead men’s bones, and its lands and lordfhips to an ampli-
tude which required a volume merely to enumerate them.
Such a volume the abbot Richard Beere had compiled from
GLASTONBURY ABBEY, CHANTRY CHAPEL.
adlual furveys and perambulations, which was duly preferved
in the abbey library, of which the mere extracts given by John
of Salifbury amount to fixty-fix pages. Thomas Sutton,
“ humilimus, quanquam lonnge indignus, hujus facri ccenobii
profefius, officium gerens cellerarii forinfici,” who wrote the
book called the “Terrarium coenobii Glaftonienfis,” tells us