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Excerpt from Monastic London: An Analytical Sketch of the Monks and Monasteries Within the Metropolitan Area During the Centuries 1200 to 1600
In the era whereof we write; a vast change 7 was on the eve of taking place in England: The well-beaten paths trodden by the footsteps' of centuries were being uprooted. Old things were passing away - the faith and life of ages gone were dissolving like the unsubstantial pageantry of a dream. Chivalry was be ginning to expire - to our irremediable social loss in this age, it seems to have altogether become extinct - while the feudal castle as well as the peaceful monastery was doomed to destruction. All the manners, customs, beliefs, convictions, and desires of the past were fleeing before the advent of those heralding the future.
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