Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.) THE ANTIQUARY’S BOOKS GENERAL EDITOR: J. CHARLES COX, LL.D., F.S.A. ENGLISH MONASTIC LIFE [Illustration: ST. BENEDICT PATRIARCH OF WESTERN MONKS] ENGLISH MONASTIC LIFE BY ABBOT GASQUET O.S.B., D.D., PH.D., D.LITT., F.R.HIST.S. WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS, MAPS AND PLANS METHUEN & CO. 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. LONDON 1904 CONTENTS PAGE PREFACE xi LIST OF MANUSCRIPTS AND PRINTED BOOKS xv CHAPTER I THE MONASTIC LIFE 1 CHAPTER II THE MATERIAL PARTS OF A MONASTERY 13 CHAPTER III THE MONASTERY AND ITS RULERS 37 CHAPTER IV THE OBEDIENTIARIES 58 CHAPTER V THE OBEDIENTIARIES (_continued_) 85 CHAPTER VI THE DAILY LIFE IN A MONASTERY 111 CHAPTER VII THE DAILY LIFE IN A MONASTERY (_continued_) 131 CHAPTER VIII THE NUNS OF MEDIÆVAL ENGLAND 154 CHAPTER IX EXTERNAL RELATIONS OF THE MONASTIC ORDERS 180 CHAPTER X THE PAID SERVANTS OF THE MONASTERY 201 CHAPTER XI THE VARIOUS RELIGIOUS ORDERS 213 LIST OF ENGLISH RELIGIOUS HOUSES 251 INDEX 319 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT PAGE The Cloisters, Worcester 18 J. Charles Wall. The Refectory, Cleve Abbey 23 J. Charles Wall. Thomas Ramryge, Abbot of St. Alban’s (from brass) 43 J. Charles Wall. Brother John of Walingford, Infirmarian of St. Alban’s 87 (Cott. MSS., Jul. D. vii.) Gloucester Cloisters, The Lavatory 102 J. Charles Wall. Nun asking Pardon of an Abbess 179 (Roy. MSS., 2 B. vii., f. 219.) Benedictine Monk 215 [The figures representative of the various Religious Orders are reduced from Dugdale’s _Monasticon_ (1655) and Stevens’ _Continuation_ (1723).] Benedictine Nun 216