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Plympton Priory a house of Augustinian Canons in south-western England in the late Middle Ages / by Fizzard, Allison D.

Table of Contents: “…The founding of Plympton Priory : background and context -- Episcopal support for the new foundation : donations to Plympton Priory from the Bishops of Exeter and their circle -- Building the endowment : lay benefactors, their motives, and their gifts -- Managing the inheritance : gains, losses, and challenges in the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries -- Maximizing the inheritance : Plympton Priory and its churches and chapels -- Plympton Priory and the laity : challenges to the authority of the priory -- The regular and the secular : Plympton Priory and its connections to the secular clergy -- The canons of Plympton Priory -- The patronage case : the crown, the Bishops of Exeter, and Plympton Priory -- Dissolution.…”
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