The History of Crowland Abbey; Digested from the Materials Collected by Mr. Gough, and Published in Quarto in 1783 and 1797 Including an Abstract of ... State of the Abbey, and the Origin and U - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1816. Excerpt: ... from Ills hands. Dunstan was, at this time, abbot of Glastonbury, and, to gratify his favourite, Etlrcd undertook to rebuild that church and monastery in the most sumptuous and magnificent manner; in a word, he obtained entire possession of the king's conscience, and. made use of his power for his own ends and the aggrandisement of his order. Turketyl probably observed this blind confidence of the king with some degree of disgust; the important services which he had rendered to Edred and his ancestors, were thus thrown aside, and himself supplanted by an upstart, whom he, indeed, had helped into favour. The kingdom being now in profound peace, Turketyl's abilities were'not wanted as formerly, and he had no means of opposing the influence that Dunstan had gained at court: he acted in this exigency like a wise man; he fell in with the stream which it was out of his power to turn. He saw that the arts of Dunstan were directed to the advantage of the monasteries, and he remembered that Croyland was then in a state of dilapidation, and Without an abbot. Idleness was no part of his character, and he rightly judged that the only road to Edred's favour was to adopt his hurnour, and imitate his zeal: thus, instead of opposing Dunstan with hopeless animosity, he rivalled him in his pursuits; and to the glory which he had acquired as a soldier and statesman, he added the renown of sanctity, and the applause which persons draw after them who retire from a life of magnificence and worldly grandeur to voluntary seclusion. Ashburton's History of England, p. 46. "Accordingly (says the history) he arranged his worldly affairs, and, having discharged all his debts, made over sixty manors to the king, reserving only every tenth for the Abbey. These lay near to Croyland, an...