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RIEVAUX ABBEY.
priory, and was buried in it in 1153. So alfo Peter de Ros,
who married his filter Adeline. Many were the benefactors
to this monaftery, and it received large eftates and privileges.
At the diffolution, Richard Blyton, lord abbot, and twenty-
three monks, furrendered the foundation to the commiffioners
of Henry VIII., and had a hundred marks affigned him, per
annum, for his life. The net refources of the houfe were
valued at ^278 I or. 2d.
“ Aelred, who was abbot in 1140,” fays Dugdale, “was
an, if not the only, eminent perfon in his houfe for piety,
learning, and all the virtues of a monaftic life which is not
faying much for the piety and learning of Rievaux. Aelred,
we are told, became fo famous for his abilities and good
qualities, that David, king of Scotland, invited him to go
there, but he refufed all worldly honours, refufed even to be
made a bifhop, and gave himfelf up to contemplation and
preaching. “ He imitated St. Bernard in all his actions,
being mild, modefl, humble, pious, chafle and temperate, and
wonderfully for peace.” Yet he muft have been tolerably
induftrious, for “ he hath written many books of hiflory, piety,
and divinity, namely : The Lives of King Edward the Con-
feflbr, and fome other kings of England, in verfe and profe,
of David, king, and Margaret, queen of Scotland, and St.
Ninian, bifhop; of miracles in general, and of thofe of the
Church of St. Hagulftadt in particular, with the flate of the
fame ; Chronicles from Aidan ; and the Wars of the Standard ;
of the foundation of St. Margaret’s of York, and of Foun-
tains ; feveral homilies and fermons.”
Yet Dugdale, feeming to recoiled: himfelf, tells us that Walter
Daniel, a monk of this houfe, was his difciple, and equalled
him in fome things, and furpaffed him in others. He, too,
wrote many things, and on many fubjeds, as of the conception
RIEVAUX ABBEY.
priory, and was buried in it in 1153. So alfo Peter de Ros,
who married his filter Adeline. Many were the benefactors
to this monaftery, and it received large eftates and privileges.
At the diffolution, Richard Blyton, lord abbot, and twenty-
three monks, furrendered the foundation to the commiffioners
of Henry VIII., and had a hundred marks affigned him, per
annum, for his life. The net refources of the houfe were
valued at ^278 I or. 2d.
“ Aelred, who was abbot in 1140,” fays Dugdale, “was
an, if not the only, eminent perfon in his houfe for piety,
learning, and all the virtues of a monaftic life which is not
faying much for the piety and learning of Rievaux. Aelred,
we are told, became fo famous for his abilities and good
qualities, that David, king of Scotland, invited him to go
there, but he refufed all worldly honours, refufed even to be
made a bifhop, and gave himfelf up to contemplation and
preaching. “ He imitated St. Bernard in all his actions,
being mild, modefl, humble, pious, chafle and temperate, and
wonderfully for peace.” Yet he muft have been tolerably
induftrious, for “ he hath written many books of hiflory, piety,
and divinity, namely : The Lives of King Edward the Con-
feflbr, and fome other kings of England, in verfe and profe,
of David, king, and Margaret, queen of Scotland, and St.
Ninian, bifhop; of miracles in general, and of thofe of the
Church of St. Hagulftadt in particular, with the flate of the
fame ; Chronicles from Aidan ; and the Wars of the Standard ;
of the foundation of St. Margaret’s of York, and of Foun-
tains ; feveral homilies and fermons.”
Yet Dugdale, feeming to recoiled: himfelf, tells us that Walter
Daniel, a monk of this houfe, was his difciple, and equalled
him in fome things, and furpaffed him in others. He, too,
wrote many things, and on many fubjeds, as of the conception