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The history of the Norman conquest of England, its causes and its results, Volume 2 (of 6)

Note 1322 — Chapter X · THE REIGN OF EADWARD FROM THE DEATH OF THE ÆTHELING TO THE DEATH OF THE KING.[1258] 1057–1066.

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We have seen that he found his Canons “absque claustro et refectorio,” things with which they could perfectly well dispense. Then he goes on (p. 19), “Quos publice vivere ... canonicali, ditatos, instruxi obedientiâ. Claustrum verò et refectorium et dormitorium illis præparavi, et omnia quæ ad hæc necessaria et competentia fore cognovi, ad modum patriæ meæ laudabiliter advocavi.” On the Provostship of Wells, part of this institution, see Professor Stubbs in Gentleman’s Magazine, November 1864, p. 624.

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