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Title: The ruined abbeys of Yorkshire
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Lefroy, William, 1836-1900
Subjects: Abbeys
Publisher: London, Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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d ; and, what is even more important, inthem the very humanity which we inherit once foundfit utterance for its superhuman aspirations, and, howblindly and wrongly soever, poured out its soulthrough hundreds of dark and troubled years—con-fessing and leaving on record that after all it had asoul and sought a country. But here in St. Marys Abbey—371 feet long and 60broad—or there at Jervaulx, where, with scarcely onestone of the church still left upon another, the very do- wooded hills and by quiet streams, that these ruins areworth visiting. As long as there is the merest ground-plan to be traced, their human interest appeals to menand women of every creed, but that of sheer stupidity. In York, where the very names of. streets aremonuments of antiquity, and the relics of Roman,Saxon, and Dane, are gathered under the shadow ofone of the finest cathedrals in the world, it is a littlehard to turn aside into a trim garden and fix ourattention upon the ruins of an abbey. Bootham, the
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BOOTHAM BAR, YORK. mestic buildings strike and impress us with their massand grand proportions, it is impossible quite to shutones eyes to all this. It is not only because they illus-trate a chapter or two in the history of architecture, stillless because most of them stand under picturesquely of the labouring class. The dissolution of monasteries thus be-came a secondary cause of the great agrarian revolution whichmarked the sixteenth century and which laid the foundation ofthe present English land-system. The north of England wherethe monasteries had been almost the only centres of culture andimprovement, appears to have suffered most by their dissolution,as the south gained most by the growth of London and theextension of intercourse with the Continent.— English Landand English Landlords, by the Hon. George C. Brodrick.Cf. Hallam. Middle Ages. 12th Edition. Vol. Hi., p. 360. subject of our illustration, is one among a hundredpoints of interest, and even when we hear of Mary-gate

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