The History of the Ancient and Royal Foundation: Called the Abbey of St. Alban, in the County of Hertford, from the Founding Thereof, in 793, to Its Dissolution, in 1539. Exhibiting the Life of Each Abbot, and the Principal Events Relating to the Monastery, During His Rule and Government. Extracted from the Most Faithful Authorities and Records, Both Printed and Manuscript

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Stran 543 - Know ye that we, of our special grace and of our certain knowledge and mere motion, have given and granted, and by these presents...
Stran i - The History of the ancient and royal Foundation, called the Abbey of St. Alban, in the County of Hertford; from the Foundation thereof in 793 to its Dissolution in 1539...
Stran 371 - Heavenly court ; have granted, and by this our present charter, do grant, for us and our heirs, as far as in us lies, to God and the Church of St. Alban, to our beloved in Christ, JOHN, now Abbot, and the CONVENT of the same place, and to their successors...
Stran 543 - THE KING to all to whom, &c., Greeting. KNOW YE that We...
Stran 292 - That the eucharist, after consecration, was not the real body of Christ, but only an emblem or sign of it. That the church of Rome was no more the head of the universal church than any other church, and that St Peter had no greater authority given him than the rest of the apostles. That the pope had no more jurisdiction in the exercise of the keys than any other priest. That if the church misbehaved, it was not only lawful but meritorious to dispossess her of her temporalities.
Stran 34 - Certainly this housell which we do now hallow at God's altar is a remembrance of Christ's body which he offered for us, and of his blood which he shed for us : so he himself commanded, Do this in my remembrance.
Stran 428 - The butchers of London sold penny pieces of beef for the relief of the poor, every piece two pounds and a half, sometimes three pounds for a penny, and thirteen, and sometimes fourteen, of these pieces for twelvepence ; mutton eightpence the quarter ; and a hundredweight of beef for four shillings and eightpence.
Stran 439 - Justice without longer delaye : which don, the house will be in such debt, that we think no man will take the office of abbot here upon him ; except any doo it only for that purpose to surrender the same into the Kinge's hands.
Stran 518 - ... Archbishop was hunting with the King at Windsor, when he made relation to him, of some extraordinary kind of game wherewith he was wont to solace himself, at a house which he had built and furnished sumptuously, called the Moore, in Hertfordshire.
Stran 172 - He came," adds the chronicler, " early into this house, and might have been placed in the abbatic chair when John de Hertford was elected, had he not declined the honour, through fear that it would involve him in care and trouble, and prevent him from recording and writing his great history.

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