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Excerpt from Historia Et Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Petri Gloucestri�, Vol. 3
And so it was that the monasteries of England laid the foundation for their own destruction which other wise might have been averted, and the monastic system, as a recognized institution, ceased to exist. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
