 | Great Britain. Public Record Office - 1888 - 798 sivua
...2nd September.4 On the 8th July Chapuys wrote to the Emperor's Secretary, Anthoine Perrenot : — " It is a lamentable " thing to see a legion of monks...have " been chased from their monasteries, wandering miser" ably hither and thither seeking means to live ; and " several honest men have told me that,... | |
 | Lina Eckenstein - 1896 - 526 sivua
...process of dissolution was going on (July 1536) Chapuys the French ambassador wrote as follows1: ' It is a lamentable thing to see a legion of monks...there were over 20,000 who knew not how to live.' His estimate may have reference to the ultimate effect of the act*. The immediate results of the suppression... | |
 | Roger Bigelow Merriman - 1902 - 470 sivua
...doubt that great misery and wretchedness invariably accompanied the dissolutions. Chapuys writes : ' It is a lamentable thing to see a legion of monks...suppressed, there were over 20,000, who knew not how to live V The Act for the protection of the exiled inmates cannot have been at all strictly enforced, and there... | |
 | Martin Haile - 1910 - 612 sivua
...Chapuys had reported in July how lamentable a thing it was to see a legion of monks and nuns who had been chased from their monasteries, wandering miserably...thither, seeking means to live ; and several honest men had told him that, what with monks, nuns, and persons dependent upon the suppressed monasteries, there... | |
 | Martin Haile - 1910 - 594 sivua
...Chapuys had reported in July how lamentable a thing it was to see a legion of monks and nuns who had been chased from their monasteries, wandering miserably...thither, seeking means to live ; and several honest men had told him that, what witb monks, nuns, and persons dependent upon the suppressed monasteries, there... | |
 | 1912 - 366 sivua
...homeless and dispossessed were not wanting to fan their fears. In a letter Chapuys remarks : — " It is a lamentable thing to see a legion of monks and nuns chased from their monasteries wandering miserably hither and thither seeking to live." Witham-on-the-Hill... | |
 | Frances Rose-Troup - 1913 - 560 sivua
...addition from the classes affected by the Dissolution. Chapuys, writing on the 8th July, 1536, says — " It is a lamentable thing to see a legion of monks...have told me that what with monks, nuns, and persons dependant on the monasteries, there are over 20,000 who know not how to live." 3 1 In some lists of... | |
 | Mrs. Frances James Rose-Troup - 1913 - 562 sivua
...the Dissolution. Chapuys, writing on the 8th July, 1536, says — " It is a lamentable thing to sco a legion of monks and nuns who have been chased from...have told me that what with monks, nuns, and persons dependant on the monasteries, there are over 20,000 who know not how to live." 3 1 In some lists of... | |
 | David Knowles - 1976 - 344 sivua
...1 The statement of Chapuys to Anthoine Perrenot on 8 July 1536 seems at first sight trustworthy: ' It is a lamentable thing to see a legion of monks...miserably hither and thither, seeking means to live' (Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII, x1, 42), but his next words, 'and several honest men... | |
 | David Knowles, Dom David Knowles - 1979 - 542 sivua
...hue.' a The statement of Chapuys to Anthoine Perrenot on 8 July 1536 seems at first sight trustworthy: 'It is a lamentable thing to see a legion of monks...miserably hither and thither, seeking means to live' (LP, XI, 41), but his next words, 'and several honest men have told me that what with monks, nuns,... | |
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It is a lamentable thing," said Chapuys in the summer, "to see a legion of monks and nuns who have been chased from their monasteries wandering miserably hither and thither, seeking means to live, and several honest men have told me that what with monks,... 
