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The Antiquities of Furness: Illustrated with Engravings
The Antiquities of Furness Illustrated with Engravings Author:Thomas West, William Close General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1805 Original Publisher: Printed and sold by George Ashburner, and may be had of R.S. Kirby, London-House-Yard; Messrs. Lackington, Allen and Co. London; H. Mozley, Gainsborough; Wilson and Spence, York; Troughton, and Gore, Liverpool; Thompson and Sons, Manchester; Ware, Whitehav... more »en. Subjects: Furness (England) Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAP. XV. A concise View of the changes produced in the Slate of Furness by the Dissolution aftfie Abbey, and of certain Transactions particularly relating to the Tenants of Low-Furness after that event; with Remarks on the Regulations respecting the endowment of Vicarages ; and an Account oj the Valuation and Disposal cfthe Site of Furness Abbey, with the Manor, and Rectory of DaUon. THE dissolution of the abbey greatly affected both the civil and domestic state of Low Furness, which for the space of four hundred years had been improving either by the labour of the monks at their first coming, and during the first fervor of their institute, or by the encouragement afterwards given to their tenants and vassals; but to this the dissolution gave a sudden check. The large demands for provisions of all kinds, occasioned by constant hospitality, and the frequent concourse of company resorting to the abbey, dropped at once ; the boons and rents in kind were then no longer paid ; a small acknowledgment in money was all that was required, or could be expected, from so small a tract of insulated land. Thus agriculture received a fatal blow ; the means were first neglected, then forgot; the fertile fields and spacious lawns, which had given a name to Plain Furness, waved no more with the rich harvest of sil...« less