...were often insolent and cruel in the prosecution of their work. " Our posterity," says John Bale, " may well curse this wicked fact of our age ; this...unreasonable spoil of England's most noble antiquities." " On the whole," says Blunt, " it may be said that we must ever look back on that destruction as a...

...many years to come. I judge this to be true, and utter it with heaviness, that neither the Britains under the Romans and Saxons, nor yet the English people...their learned monuments as we have seen in our time. all, fortunately, were lost. John Leland, the King's Antiquary, saved as many manuscripts as his opportunities...

...to be true, and utter it with heaviness, that neither the Britaius under the Romans and Saxons, iior yet the English people under the Danes and Normans,...their learned monuments as we have seen in our time. Not all, fortunately, were lost. John Leland, the King's Antiquary, saved as many manuscripts as his...

...years to come. I judge this to be true, and utter it with heaviness, that neither the Britains juder the Romans and Saxons, nor yet the English people...and Normans, had ever such damage of their learned Vionuments as we have seen in our time. v£^ Not all, fortunately, were lost. John Leland, the King's...

...shame and rebuke than to have it noised abroad that we are despisers of learning ? I judge this to be true, and utter it with heaviness, that neither the Britons under the Romans, nor yet the English people under the Danes and Normans had ever such damage of their learned monuments...

...cruiet, tow towells, one crosse of brasse and one byble." — Church Goods Record Office, p. 126. 2 "Our posterity may well curse this wicked fact of...unreasonable spoil of England's most noble antiquities " (Quoted by R. Southey). The condition of the country at this time was deplorable, and went from bad...

...many years to come. I judge this to be true, and utter it with heaviness, that neither the Britains under the Romans and Saxons, nor yet the English people...their learned monuments as we have seen in our time." It used to seem some condonation of these sad evils to say that the suppression of the monasteries...

...many years to come. I judge this to be true, and utter it with heaviness, that neither the Britains under the Romans and Saxons, nor yet the English people...their learned monuments as we have seen in our time. Such was the Reformation's gift to education. And so the Library of the Monastery of Syon disappeared...

...Great, indeed, must have been the havoc, if a contemporary like Bale did not hesitate to declare, ' ' Our posterity may well curse this wicked fact of our...age, this unreasonable spoil of England's most noble antiquities."10 Already during the preceding reign, the royal visitors had laid hands on the valuable...

...number but at times whole ships full, to the wondering of the foreign nations. ... I judge this to be true, and utter it with heaviness — that neither...unreasonable spoil of England's most noble antiquities." 1 . . . This devastation of monastic libraries and manuscripts, coupled with the protests and lamentations...