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LANTMONY. X4J1
valuable; leaving Lanthony almost desHtute of
the means necessary for the performance os mass
by the miserable and aged monks condemned to
solitude by their powerful brethren ; who long
continued to send there those conlidered useless and
troublesome. At the suppression the revenues were
valued at ^71. 3s. id. per annum. It is now the
property of Colonel Wood of Piercefleld. I shouid
do this gentleman, though an utter stranger, the
height of injustice, were I not to notice his endea-
vours to restore the Abbey as sar as practicable.
It cannot be supposed for an instant that any per-
son is Quixote enough to with the proprietor to
rebuild a monastery merely for the gratification of
an admirer of antient structures, or even for a
parish church, when one is already posTesfed by
the inhabitants of the district. Under these cir~
cumstances I feel myself grateful to him, as an
enthuiiast for antiquity, when I recollect that I
saw a mason employed in replacing the very Hones,
in their pristine order, which had fallen from the
arch of the great Western door; and that he
informed me his orders from the Colonel were,
to proceed in the same manner whenever he could
discover the relative parts in the rubbish, and to
use new materials in no other inltances than when
it was impracticable to find them. If after this the
proprietor converted the towers into windmills,
dwelling-
valuable; leaving Lanthony almost desHtute of
the means necessary for the performance os mass
by the miserable and aged monks condemned to
solitude by their powerful brethren ; who long
continued to send there those conlidered useless and
troublesome. At the suppression the revenues were
valued at ^71. 3s. id. per annum. It is now the
property of Colonel Wood of Piercefleld. I shouid
do this gentleman, though an utter stranger, the
height of injustice, were I not to notice his endea-
vours to restore the Abbey as sar as practicable.
It cannot be supposed for an instant that any per-
son is Quixote enough to with the proprietor to
rebuild a monastery merely for the gratification of
an admirer of antient structures, or even for a
parish church, when one is already posTesfed by
the inhabitants of the district. Under these cir~
cumstances I feel myself grateful to him, as an
enthuiiast for antiquity, when I recollect that I
saw a mason employed in replacing the very Hones,
in their pristine order, which had fallen from the
arch of the great Western door; and that he
informed me his orders from the Colonel were,
to proceed in the same manner whenever he could
discover the relative parts in the rubbish, and to
use new materials in no other inltances than when
it was impracticable to find them. If after this the
proprietor converted the towers into windmills,
dwelling-