Westminster Abbey the Last Days of the Monastery As Shown By the Life And Times
Westminster Abbey the Last Days of the Monastery As Shown By the Life And Times
Herbert Francis Westlake
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Unfortunately at the end of September, just as Henry was starting on his expedition, twelve convicts escaped from the Abbot's prison. Henry was actually on the road but Prior Essex and others set out in hot haste to catch him. They came up with him at Canterbury and asked for his pardon. Henry, however, would not grant it, and told them he should defer the matter until he returned from France and came to Westminster. It can easily be imagined with what trepidation the Convent awaited the King's... return, for they had reason to expect the severest penalties. Their fears were not unjustified, for on February 9th, 40 WESTMINSTER ABBEY. 1493, the matter came before the King's Bench and the Abbot was adjudged to pay the King no less than twelve hundred pounds. Such a sum could not immediately be forthcoming, and the Abbot accordingly entered into a bond for the payment. Eventually, however, by the intervention of Sir Reginald Bray the King reduced the penalty to a thousand marks, the last instalments of which, amounting in all to 166 135.
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