 | Thomas Fuller - 1837 - 562 pages
...parliamentary abbeys, whereof Shaftesbury the chieftest, valued at ^1329. 11s. 3d. So that the country-people had a proverb, that " if the abbot of Glastonbury...heir would have more land than the king of England." Barking in Essex, and Sion in Middlesex, fell not much short of Shaftesbury, being severally endowed... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - 1837 - 564 pages
...parliamentary abbeys, whereof Shaftesbury the chieftest, valued at £1329. 11*. 3d. So that the country-people had a proverb, that " if the abbot of Glastonbury...heir would have more land than the king of England." Barking in Essex, and Sion in Middlesex, fell not much short of Shaftesbury, being severally endowed... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - 1842 - 560 pages
...parliamentary abbeys, whereof Shaftesbury the chiefest, valued at -£"1329. 11s. 3d. So that the country-people had a proverb, that " if the abbot of Glastonbury...abbess of Shaftesbury, their heir would have more Jand than the king of England." Barking in Essex, and Sion in Middlesex, fell not much short of Shaftesbury,... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - 1842 - 570 pages
...parliamentary abbeys, whereof Shaftesbury the chiefest, valued at £1329. 11s. 3d. So that the country-people had a proverb, that " if the abbot of Glastonbury might marry the abbess of Sliaftcsbury, their heir would have more land than the king of England." Barking in Essex, and Sion... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - 1845 - 568 pages
...nunnery! with parliamentary abbeys, whereof Shaftesbury, the chiefest, valued at 1329^ 21*. 3d. ; so that the country people had a proverb, that if the...heir would have more land than the king of England. Barking in Essex, and Sion in Middlesex, fell not much short of Shaftesbury, being severally endowed... | |
 | 1847 - 158 pages
...proverb quoted by our author, which is thus given by Fuller in his Church History (Book vi. p. 296), " That if the abbot of Glastonbury might marry the abbess...heir would have more land than the King of England." The abbess was one of the four who held of the king a whole barony, in consequence of which she was... | |
 | Harold Lewis - 1876 - 598 pages
...Shaftesbury was one of the richest in the kingdom, and Fuller records the saying current in his time that if the Abbot of Glastonbury might marry the Abbess...heir would have more land than the king of England. In 1543 the prebendal manor of Bradford and all the churches were granted by Henry VIII. to the Deau... | |
 | William Hickman S. Aubrey - 1878 - 734 pages
...money, the wealth of some of these larger abbeys wns enormous. The country-folk, according to Fuller, had a proverb that if the abbot of Glastonbury might marry the abbess of Shaftesbury, (valued at one thousand three hundred and twenty-nine pounds,) their heir would have more land than... | |
 | Lina Eckenstein - 1896 - 526 pages
...was notorious. A saying was current in the western provinces that if the abbot of Glastonbury were to marry the abbess of Shaftesbury, their heir would have more land than the king of England1. The reason of this wealth lies partly in the fact that property had been settled on them... | |
 | William Henry Rich Jones - 1907 - 352 pages
...the kingdom. And our acquaintance with the Abbess of Shaftesbury is not to be a transient one like that with St. Dunstan, but one that is to last for...the monks of St. Laurence at Bradford, like their brethren at Frome, (a monastery also founded by Aldhelm) were dispersed during the Danish wars which... | |
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So that the country-people had a proverb, that " if the abbot of Glastonbury might marry the abbess of Shaftesbury, their heir would have more land than the king of England. 
