ENGLISH MINSTERS

VOLUME II.

LONDON: PRINTED BY

SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE AND PARLIAMENT STREET

'Diverse and great solemn and honourable monasteries of the Realm wherein,
thanks be to GOD, religion was well kept and observed'-Act 27 Henry VIII.
c. 28, § 1

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SEP 18 1880

Binot fund.

CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.

PART V.-HISTORICAL.

ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF MONASTERIES IN

ENGLAND.

1. CELTIC

2. RULES OF SS. COLUMBA, GREGORY, AND BENEDICT

3. DOUBLE SYSTEM

4. GROWTH OF MONASTERIES

5. FEUDS OF MONKS AND CANONS

6. DECAY OF DISCIPLINE

7. NORMAN INFLUENCE

8. CHRONOLOGICAL SEQUENCE OF FOUNDATIONS

9. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION, CHOICE OF SITES

10. ALL THE RELIGIOUS ORDERS UNDER THE RULE OF ST.

12.

13.

PRÆMONSTRATENSIAN OR WHITE CANONS

KNIGHTS FOLLOWING THE RULE OF ST. AUSTIN

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