Retrieve The Abbey Of St. Albans: From 1300 To The Dissolution Of The Monasteries (Classic Reprint) Authored By Vivian Hunter Galbraith Expressed As File

from The Abbey of St, Albans: Fromto the Dissolution of the Monasteries

The 'fourteenth century revival' is perhaps too dignified a name for the feeble efforts at reformation in the majority of English monasteries.
Most houses failed utterly to arrest the decay that had set in during the thirteenth century, and for the rest of their existence underwent a slow internal dissolution which was merely consummated by the measures of Henry VIII.
To this rule there were exceptions, At Bury St. E'dmunds,for instance, while John Tymworth was abbotthere was a marked revival accompanied by a little outburst of chronicle writing.
More important was the recovery of St, Albans, where a conscious effort towards reform is the main thread

of its history, The reigns of four abbots which cover the first half of the century witnessed the restoration of discipline: the long abbacy of Thomas de la Marewas devoted to the repair of the Abbey finances, which had been depleted by the frequent vacancies.
The steps by which first the rule, and then the finances,

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