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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1905. Excerpt: ... But they were always poor; alien priories were not in favour either with king or people. "Our abbeys and our priories shall pay this expedition's charge." These words put by Shakespeare into the mouth of King John on the eve of war with France, voice the sentiment of all the English kings. Edward III. said that alien priories did more harm to England than all the Jews and Saracens in the world. So the crown never scrupled to seize their revenues in time of war; quarrels between England and France were constantly recurring, and at these times even remittances from the mother house of St. Martain les Champs were apt to be intercepted in transit, so that in spite of the nominal value of their possessions, the actual income of the convent of St. James in the Marsh was very precarious. The list of priors is not complete, but extends from 1157 to 1428. The priory was suppressed by Henry VI. in 1451, and the lands given to Eton College. The site eventually passed into the hands of the family of Ducke, one of whom pulled down the church. About the same time someone named Ducke built the great conduit at Carfoix,--quatre votes, the point where the four main roads of Exeter cross--and it is possible that the stones of the church were used in its construction. "Ducke's Marsh" is still the name of the meadow by the river which was part of the priory's possessions, and a house on the site is called "The Old Abbey." In a wall bounding the grounds on the side nearest Exeter, the upper part of a stone coffin is built in, the cavity being filled with smaller stones set in mortar. This is the only relic remaining of the Priory of St. James of the Marsh. St. Catherine's Priory, Polsloe, for Benedictine nuns, was about a mile beyond the city boundaries, lying a little aside from the Old Roman road. In ...
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