Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Church Work and Life in English Minsters, Vol. 2
With the settlement of the Norman bishops, Rochester, Durham, and Norwich were confirmed to the Benedictine rule, and stables of clerks, ' as Malmesbury coarsely calls secular foundations, fared ill, whilst alien priories (founded by foreigners out of love to their Norman home), wavering in their allegiance, and making a constant drain of English produce and money to foreign houses, were multiplied (reyner, App. P. Iii. P.
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