The History of the Reformation of the Church of England volume 1
The History of the Reformation of the Church of England volume 1
Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715
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) In the year 725, king Ina's charter 25. 26J to the abbey of Glastonbury relates to their ancient charters, book m. ] THE REFORMATION. (1535. ) 301 and exempts them from the bishop's jurisdiction. King Offa [Jhid. Vol. 187 founded and exempted the monastery of St. Albans, in the r Ib ? d * J year 793, which pope Honorius the Third confirmed, anno 232, 233. ] 1218. Kenulph, king of Morcia, founded and exempted p I'-, Abingdon, in the year 821 . Canute founded and exempted [ Ibid - vo1 - St. Edm...undsbury, in the year 1020. I 3 ' 7 . ] About the end of the eighth century, the Danes began to Monas- make their descents into England, and made every where ne ^y e " great depredations ; and, finding the monks had possessed wasted and themselves of the greatest part of the riches of the nation, they Antiquit. ' made their most frequent inroads upon these places where Britannia, they knew the richest spoil was to be found. And they did so waste and ruin these houses, that they were generally aban- doned by the monks ; who, as they loved the ease and wealth they had enjoyed formerly in their houses, so had no mind to expose themselves to the persecutions of those heathenish invaders.
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