Cloister life in the days of Cœur de Lion

CONTENTS LINCOLN. I. An Ideal Monk 3 II. The Monk and the King 17 III. The Death of Hugh of Lincoln 27 BURY ST. EDMUNDS. I. Edmund, King and Martyr 33 II. The Building of the Abbey — A Notable Brother 44 III. The Great Abbot and his Biographer 57 IV. The Shrine of St. Edmund and what it contained 70 TEWKESBURY. I. On the Road to Tewkesbury 82 II. The Builders of the Abbey 90 III. The Abbey and its Memories 106 IV. The End of the Abbey 113 V. The Architecture of the Abbey 117 VI. The Tombs of Tewkesbury 129 EVESHAM. The Vanished Abbey 140 OSRIC, KING OF NORTHUMBRIA. The Finding of a Lost King 164 LA GRANDE CHARTREUSE. A Lonely Island of Prayer 183 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. By HERBERT RAILTON and A. QUINTON. West Front of Lincoln Cathedral Frontispiece Statue of King Stephen 4 The Choir, Lincoln Cathedral 9 Lincoln Cathedral from the Pottergate 18 Chapter House, Lincoln Cathedral 21 Monument to Henry II. and Richard I. and their Queens, Formerly At Fontevraud 24 The Death of St. Bruno 29 The Death of St. Edmund 39 Seal of the Abbey of St. Edmundsbury 40 Buttress and Arches, Abbot's Bridge, Bury St. Edmunds 45 Ruins of Central Tower, Bury St. Edmunds 49 The Abbey Gate, Bury St. Edmunds 53 The Abbot's Bridge, Bury St. Edmunds 58 Norman Gate, Bury St. Edmunds 59 The Western Front, Bury St. Edmunds 61 A Fragment in the Abbey Garden, Bury St. Edmunds 64 Seal of Abbot Samson 67 The Shrine of St. Edmund 71 Gateway, Bury St. Edmunds 75 Old Houses, Tewkesbury 84 The Bell Hotel, "Abel Fletcher's House," Tewkesbury 85 West Front, Tewkesbury Abbey 93 The Bear Inn and Long Bridge, Tewkesbury 98 High Street, Tewkesbury 101 Shrine and Loculus of Hugh le Despenser, Tewkesbury Abbey 107 The Cross, Tewkesbury 110 The Nave, Tewkesbury Abbey 119 Tewkesbury Abbey from the South-West 123 Tomb of Sir Guy de Brien, Tewkesbury Abbey 131 The Trinity Chapel, Tewkesbury Abbey 133 The "Warwick" Chauntry, Tewkesbury Abbey 135 The Bell Tower, Evesham 141 Seal of Evesham Abbey (obverse) 144 Seal of Evesham Abbey (reverse) 145 Tewkesbury Abbey from the River 147 Seal of Simon de Montfort 151 Abbey Gate House and Almonry, Evesham 153 A View in the God's Acre of the vanished Abbey 155 The Norman Gate, Evesham 159 Ruined Arch of Chapter House, Evesham 162 St. Hilda's Abbey, Whitby 171 King Osric's Tomb from the Altar Steps, Gloucester Cathedral 175 King Osric's Tomb from Ambulatory of Choir, Gloucester Cathedral 178 The Grand Som, La Grande Chartreuse 185 Monastery of La Grande Chartreuse 187 The House or "Cell" of a Father of La Grande Chartreuse 194 The Cloisters, La Grande Chartreuse 197 Digitized by Google.