A Short History of Monks and Monasteries

by Alfred Wesley Wishart

Edersheim, on the Essenes, [24].

Edgar, King, aids Dunstan in reform, [186].

Education, The Mendicants and, [248]; the monks further, in England, [253]; the effect of monasticism on, [407].

Edward I. and III., confiscate alien priories, [338].

Egypt, The hermits of, [33]; Kingsley and Waddington on same, [34].

Elijah, and asceticism, [30].

Elizabeth, Princess, and the Act of Succession, [298].

Endowments of monasteries, abolished by first Mendicants, [244]; reason for some, [361].

England, Church of, separates from Rome, [328]; causes of, and by whom separation secured, [340], [342]. See [Britain.]

Essenes, asceticism of, [23].