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Introduction
In accordance with many requests, the following sketch of some of the features of monastic life in England is reprinted from The Church Times, in a somewhat extended and slightly amended form.
It has been suggested that it would be helpful to students to give a list of authorities on which these pages are based. A large number of authorities, such as monastic chartularies and customaries, and episcopal registers, only exist in manuscript; but the following are some of the principal printed books, in addition to the extended edition in eight vols. of Dugdale’s Monasticon:
English Monastic Life (1904). Abbot Gasquet.
Customary of the Benedictine Monasteries of St. Augustine, Canterbury, and St. Peter, Westminster (1902). Henry Bradshaw Society.
Observances of the Austin Priory of Barnwell (1897). J. Willis Clark.
Mediæval England (1903), Chaps. 3, 9, 15. Mary Bateson.
Rites and Customs of Durham (1842). Surtees Society.
Halmota Prioratus Dunelmensis (1886). Surtees Society.