Meaux Abbey
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Meaux Abbey (archaic, also referred to as Melsa) was a
Lord of Holderness, near Beverley in the East Riding of Yorkshire
, England.
A chronicle of its history was written by
abbots. The abbey owned the land of Wyke, which was purchased from it by King Edward I of England in 1293 to establish the town of Kingston upon Hull
.
The abbey was closed in 1539 by
King Henry VIII
. It was demolished, and the stones were used to build defences for the town of Kingston upon Hull.
The site of the abbey is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.[1]
References
- ^ Historic England. "Site of Meaux Cistercian Abbey (1007843)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
Sources
- de Burton, Thomas (1396), Bond, Edward A. (ed.), Chronica Monasterii de Melsa, a Fundatione Usque ad Annum 1396, Auctore Thoma de Burton, Abbate. Accedit Continuatio ad Annum 1406, Rerum Britannicarum medii aevi scriptores (Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages) (in Latin and English), London: Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer
- Chronica monasterii de Melsa .., vol. 1, 1866
- Chronica monasterii de Melsa .., vol. 2, 1867
- Chronica monasterii de Melsa .., vol. 3, 1868
- The scholarly prefaces to each volume by Edward Bond (later principal librarian of the British Museum) constitute a comprehensive history of the Abbey. The text was collated with the original 14th century manuscripts in the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps in Cheltenham. (Vol. 1, p. lxxxi)
External links
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- Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- "Cistercian Abbeys: Meaux". cistercians.shef.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 9 June 2016.
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