Chapter 12 THE DISSOLUTION.

'In church, chapell and priory

Abby, hospitall and nunry,

Sparing nother man nor woman,

Coopes, albes, holy ornamentes,

Crosses, chalecys, sensurs and rentes,

Convertyng all to usys prophane.'

The Blaspheming English Lutherans, verse 33.

'The Abbaies went doune because of there pride,

And made the more covetus riche for a ty