The Wellfields, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Farms were fat, its lands productive, its abbots proud, its hospitality unbounded; for three centuries they built at it and lavished upon it~all manner of beauty, in the Shape of rare carvings of oak and stone. Its church was as large as many a cathedral; it stood on an exquisite site beside the river, and the size of the abbey-grounds soon exceeded that of the whole village and the White Church counted into the bargain. Then, while it was still in its glory and still unfinished, while the proudest and most domineering Of its abbots was ruling the land around Wlth a rod of iron, and hunting out witches and chasing them over Penhull, the great hill hard by, and burning them when he caught them, and was rioting in power - then, under the ferocious auspices of the Eighth Harry of glorious memory, a reform was effected - a reform which took the i shape of a sack of the glorious abbey. Its church was demolished the friars disbanded, the proud abbot was gibbeted in full view of his birthplace over the water, on a wooded mound called to this 1 - 2.

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