Chapter XV: Monasteries, pages 163-176

A sketch of the origin and progress of monasteries in England,
163. Danes destroyed the monasteries, 164. This gave an impetus to
building manorial churches, 165. King Edgar rebuilt them, 165. His
leading church ideas, 165, 166. The English monks passed through
three reformations, 166. The Norman bishops divided the properties
of the cathedral church, 168. Table showing the monasteries built
from William I. to Henry VI., 169. Alien monasteries, 170. Main
indications of a religious revolutionary wave passing over England,
170. The preaching of Franciscans, Dominicans, and John Wickliffe
that tithes were only alms, 170-172. Wickliffe’s opinions pronounced
heretical, 171. Cathedral Act of 1840 [3 & 4 Vict., c. 113] passed to
sweep away Church abuses, 172. Beneficial effect of the Act, 173. The
object of owners in appropriating tithes to monasteries, 175. Charter
of the Earl of Chester to the Monastery of Chester, 176.