Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1836 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX. A. They (the visitors) represented their offences in such multiplying glasses, as made them seem both greater in number, and more horrid in nature, than indeed they were. -- Heylin, p. 262. The commissioners threatened the canons of Leicester that they would charge them with adultery and unnatural crimes, unless they would consent to give up their house.--See Hist. Collect., from 36 to 52. Burnet owns that there were great complaints made of the violences and briberies of the visitors, and perhaps, says he, not without reason.--Abrid, p. 182. The infamous Dr. London was appointed visitor to Godstowe Nunnery, of whose vile practices there the abbess, Catherine Bukley, complains most feelingly, in a letter addressed to the king, which may be seen at length in Steven's Continuation to Dugdale, p. 537. This same Dr. London was so abominable a character, that he was afterwards convicted of perjury, and adjudged to ride with his face to the horse's tail at Windsor and Oakingham, with papers about his head.--Steven's Continuation to Monasticon Anglicanum, p. 538. The learned and pious Abbot Whiting, of Glastonbury, was condemned in consequence of a book against the king's divorce, which had been introduced without his knowledge, being found in the abbey. This book was brought in solely for the purpose of accomplishing the ruin of this abbot, who firmly opposed the surrender of his abbey. B. In the month of November, Hugh Harringdon, Abbot of Reading, and two priests, named Rug and Orion, were hanged and quartered at Reading. The same day was Richard Whiting, Abbot of Glastonbury, hanged and quartered on the Torre Hill beside his monastery. John Thome and Roger James, monks, the one treasurer, the other under-treasurer, of Glastonbury...
