Identifier: greaterabbeysofe01gasq (find matches)
Title: The greater abbeys of England
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929
Subjects: Abbeys
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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continued during life to manifest his in-terest in the new foundation. Amongst other precious gifts the founder bestowedupon the Abbey of Milton were many relics of saints, etc.,which he brought from Rome and Brittany. In the list ofthese we find the arm and other bones of St. Sampson,and the arm of St. Branwalader the bishop. These andother relics, at great cost and labour, he procured andplaced in gilt shrines in the abbey church to obtain prayersfor the soul of his brother Edwin and for that of hismother, who lay buried in the place he had founded. The connection between the abbey of Milton and thatof St. Bertin is obvious. Edwin was buried at the lattermonastery, and his name was connected by the founderwith Milton. It is more than probable, therefore, that themonks from St. Bertin came over the sea and formed thefirst community settled at Milton. As in so many ofthe English monasteries, during the Danish invasion, themonastic form of life appears to have died out at Milton, (190)
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MILTON since the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle under the year 964 statesthat King Edgar replaced the secular canons, who werethen living there, by monks. In 1309 a fire of great magnitude destroyed the church,which had been built in the twelfth century, and most ofthe domestic buildings. The church was subsequently re-built as we may see it now. It is 132 feet long by 61 feet;the tower is loi feet high, and the transepts are 107 feetacross, the south wing having three bays and the northonly two. The nave was apparently never rebuilt. Theeastern portion of four bays is groined and retains itsrood-loft, thirty-two stalls and a reredos of 1492. Of thedomestic buildings only the refectory with rich oak ceil-ing and screen of the end of the fifteenth century is nowin existence. William Middleton, the last abbot but one, who ruledhis house from 1481 till his resignation in 1525, did muchto repair and beautify his house. He founded a freeschool also at Milton Abbas in the reign of Henry VII,and he r

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