...abbey with laymen ; white the cemetery was filled night and day with women and children under tents. The stoutest among them, as well as the young men,...sedge and the alder-beds upon the mouths of the rivers ; and every day, not to speak of other expenses, one hundred monks sat down to table. Besides all this,...

...of the frequent showers, and " consequently rendered the neighbouring fens, as also the inarsh•'' lands adjoining thereto, impassable." We learn that...Croyland, where now there is not sufficient turf to dig a singlo " cess." Bicker Haven was still in existence and the salt-pans in the neighbourhood of Sutterton...

...the neighbouring fens, as also the marsh-lands 'adjoining thereto, 'impassable. The stoutest' people among them, as well as the young men, kept watch among the sedge and alder beds upon the mouths of the rivers." So too when William the Conqueror came unto this part, the...

...abbey with laymen; while the cemetery was filled night and day with women and children under tents. The stoutest among them, as well as the young men, kept watch among the sedge and the alder-beda upon the mouths of the rivers; and every day, not to speak of other expenses, one hundred...

...abbey with laymen; while the cemetery was filled night and day with women and children under tents. The stoutest among them, as well as the young men, kept watch among the sedge and alder-beds upon the mouths of the rivers ; and every day, not to speak of other expenses, one hundred...