Chapter XII

THE DISSOLUTION.

‘In church, chapell and priory
Abby, hospitall and nunry,
Sparing nother man nor woman,
Coopes, albes, holy ornamentes,
Crosses, chalecys, sensurs and rentes,
Convertyng all to usys prophane.’

The Blaspheming English Lutherans, verse 33.

‘The Abbaies went doune because of there pride,
And made the more covetus riche for a tyme,
There leivenges dispercid one everi syde,
Where wonce was somme praier, now placis for swyne.’

Quoted by Furnival from Douce MS. 365, l. 95.