This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1816 Excerpt: ...of decorum; on the contrary, many umstances are recorded which give posterity no great Xinion of the propriety of religious manners, or the regularity said to be attendant on cloistered retirement. Perhaps the specimens of levity witnessed by Henry VIII. within these walls, who is said to have visited Blackmore for the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1816 Excerpt: ...of decorum; on the contrary, many umstances are recorded which give posterity no great Xinion of the propriety of religious manners, or the regularity said to be attendant on cloistered retirement. Perhaps the specimens of levity witnessed by Henry VIII. within these walls, who is said to have visited Blackmore for the purposes of lascivious dissipation, might have impressed that monarch with the idea that every other religious house was as abandoned as this priory, to which, no doubt, his influence considerably contributed; and consequently, from having formed such an opinion, it hastened the general dissolution. It is certain, Blackmore witnessed many of his wanton frolics. To this place his favourite Elizabeth Talbois, a young lady of respectable connections, was conducted, where she gave birth to a son by her royal paramour, whom, on the 18th June 1525, he created Earl of Nottingham, Duke of Richmond and Somerset, and presented him with a blue ribbon. Henry, although he owed some consideration to this house, the seat of his licentious pleasures, and which be jocularly used to call his " Jericho;" yet did not spare it in his wrath, or for a moment retard its annihilation. Like his other favourites, its day of grace was past, and its services were forgotten; for in the year 1527, the seventeenth of his reign, it was dissolved, and appropriated with other proptrty for the endowment of Cardinal Wolsey's College at Oxford; at which time it appeared the revenues amounted to no more than 85. 9s. Id. per ami.; of which, 41. 13s. id. was in spiritualities. On the attainder, in 1529, of the cardinal, it reverted to the crown, and was presented January 1, 1531, to the abbey of. Waltham Holy Cross: when again, on the general dissolution of abb...
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