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" Among them one is well shod, well clothed and well fed. They go out when they like, mix with the world, and talk at table. "
The Berks, Bucks & Oxon Archæological Journal - Page 53
1895
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British Monachism: Or, Manners and Customs of the Monks and Nuns of England

Thomas Dudley Fosbroke - 1843 - 494 pages
...Mosheim, &c.] they allow was more courteous than Benedict. Among them one is well shod, well cloathed, well fed. They go out when they like, mix with the world, and talk at table." Cluyniacs. " When you wish to sleep they awake you : when you wish to eat they make you fast. The night...
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Cabinet Pictures of English Life: Chaucer ...

John Saunders - 1845 - 292 pages
...converse both at home and abroad. In a word, says Guyot, "among these one is well shod, well clothed, well fed. They go out when they like, mix with the world, and talk at table." Some of the most interesting- monasteries in England belonged to this order, as Waltham Abbey, Walsingham...
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Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages

Edward Lewes Cutts - 1872 - 596 pages
...ascetic of the monastic orders. Enyol de Provins, a minstrel (and afterwards a monk) of the thirteenth century, says of them : " Among them one is well shod,...like, mix with the world, and talk at table." They were little known till the tenth or eleventh century, and the general opinion is, that they were first...
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History of the present deanery of Bicester, Oxon, Parts 1-2

James Charles Blomfield - 1882 - 342 pages
...Augustine were perhaps the least ascetic of the monastic orders. 1 A writer of the XHIth century says "Among them one is well shod, well clothed, and well...they like, mix with the world, and talk at table." Their dress consisted of a long black cassock, over which, during divine service, they wore a short...
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A Dictionary of the Church of England

Edward Lewes Cutts - 1887 - 702 pages
...least severe of the monastic orders. "Among them," says Enyol de Provins, a thirteenth century writer, "one is well shod, well clothed, and well fed ; they go out when they like, and talk at table.'' They were first introduced into England in the reign of Henry I. at Colchester,...
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The Home of the Monk: An Account of English Monastic Life and Buildings in ...

David Herbert Somerset Cranage - 1926 - 188 pages
...canons : Augustine's Rule is more courteous than Benedict's. Among them, one is well shod, well clothed, well fed. They go out when they like, mix with the world, and talk at table. I?ome of tlje Of the Knights Hospitallers: I have lived with them at Jerusalem, and have seen them...
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Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society

Essex Archaeological Society - 1933 - 482 pages
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The English Abbey, Its Life and Work in the Middle Ages

Frederick Herbert Crossley - 1935 - 278 pages
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Ancient England: A Review of Monuments and Remains in Public Care and Ownership

Edmund Vale - 1941 - 236 pages
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