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Richard Beerley to Cromwell: Suppression of the Monasteries, p. 132. These rules must be remembered. The impossibility of enforcing obedience to them was the cause of the ultimate resolution to break up the system. At one time fairs and markets were held in churchyards. Stat. Wynton., 13 Ed. I. cap. 6.
Sometimes the poor monks sued directly to the vicar-general, and Cromwell must have received many petitions as strange, as helpless, and as graphic, as this which follows. The writer was a certain Brother Beerley, a Benedictine monk of Pershore, in Worcestershire. It is amusing to find him addressing the vicar-general as his "most reverend lord in God."
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