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Excerpt from Customary Of The Benedictine Monasteries Of Saint Augustine, Canterbury, And Saint Peter, Westminster, Vol. 2
This question of the length of time that such a compilation would occupy naturally suggests another, viz., how far Ware's customary is to be regarded as an original work. The rules and observances of the Benedictine monasteries of course followed, in the first instance, the general rule of the founder of the Order; but the variations and particular practices which would grow up in the several houses, and in course of time become fixed and peculiar to them, would, by reason of their complexity.
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