This detailed history of Ramsey Abbey in Huntingdonshire, England, provides an illuminating account of the rise and decline of a significant medieval religious institution. Authored by John Wise and William Mackreth Noble in the mid-19th century, the book covers the abbey's foundation by Anglo-Saxon saints in the 10th century, its development through the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance, and its eventual dissolution during the era of Henry...
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