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Excerpt from The Crayon Miscellany, Vol. 2 Newstead, which probably once exerted a monastic sway over this region, and controlled the consciences of the rude foresters, was orig inally a priory, founded in the latter part of the twelfth century, by Henry II., at the time when he sought by building of shrines and. Convents, and by other acts of external piety, to expiate the murder of Thomas a Becket. The pn'ory was dedicated to God and the Vir gin, and was inhabited by a fraternity of canons regular of St. Augustine. This order was originally simple and abstemious in its mode of living and exemplary in its con duct but it would seem that it gradually lapsed into those abuses which disgraced too many of the wealthy monastic establishments for there are documents among its archives which intimate the prevalence of gross misrule and dissolute sensuality among its members. 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.