Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Part One The Tudor Scene
- Chap. I The reign of Henry VII
- Chap. II Some monastic activities
- Chap. III The Cistercians
- Chap. IV The Premonstratensians
- Chap. V The friars in the early sixteenth century
- Chap. VI Sixteenth-century visitations
- Chap. VII Monastic personalities
- Chap. VIII Humanism at Evesham
- Chap. IX William More, prior of Worcester, 1518–36
- Chap. X Butley and Durham
- Part Two The Gathering Storm
- Part Three Suppression and Dissolution
- Part Four Reaction and Survival
- Appendix I Sir Thomas More's letter ‘to a monk’
- Appendix II Religious houses suppressed by Cardinal Wolsey
- Appendix III The witness of the Carthusians
- Appendix IV Houses with incomes exceeding £1000 in the Valor Ecclesiasticus
- Appendix V The sacrist of Beauvale
- Appendix VI Itinerary of the visitors, 1535–6
- Appendix VII The commissioners for the survey of the Lesser Houses in 1536
- Appendix VIII The conflict of evidence on the monasteries
- Appendix IX The last abbots of Colchester, Reading and Glastonbury
- Appendix X Regulars as bishops
- Bibliography
- Index
Chap. IX - William More, prior of Worcester, 1518–36
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Part One The Tudor Scene
- Chap. I The reign of Henry VII
- Chap. II Some monastic activities
- Chap. III The Cistercians
- Chap. IV The Premonstratensians
- Chap. V The friars in the early sixteenth century
- Chap. VI Sixteenth-century visitations
- Chap. VII Monastic personalities
- Chap. VIII Humanism at Evesham
- Chap. IX William More, prior of Worcester, 1518–36
- Chap. X Butley and Durham
- Part Two The Gathering Storm
- Part Three Suppression and Dissolution
- Part Four Reaction and Survival
- Appendix I Sir Thomas More's letter ‘to a monk’
- Appendix II Religious houses suppressed by Cardinal Wolsey
- Appendix III The witness of the Carthusians
- Appendix IV Houses with incomes exceeding £1000 in the Valor Ecclesiasticus
- Appendix V The sacrist of Beauvale
- Appendix VI Itinerary of the visitors, 1535–6
- Appendix VII The commissioners for the survey of the Lesser Houses in 1536
- Appendix VIII The conflict of evidence on the monasteries
- Appendix IX The last abbots of Colchester, Reading and Glastonbury
- Appendix X Regulars as bishops
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Several times in the course of this history of the monastic order in England an individual has been taken as the representative of his age. In earlier centuries reasons for the choice of this man rather than another were found in some quality of eminence that he possessed, whether holiness of life, intellectual or practical ability, or a combination of these qualities. Lanfranc, Ailred of Rievaulx, Hugh of Witham, Henry of Eastry, Uthred of Boldon and Thomas de la Mare were all men who, in one way or another, stood out among their contemporaries. For the last phase of the monastic life before the Dissolution an individual presents himself who, though holding for long the headship of an important house, cannot properly be described as eminent or distinguished either in mind or in character or in achievement. His inclusion in a gallery of portraits is due primarily to the aptness with which his career at all points illustrates the trend of the age; it is due also to the copious material from which the course of that career can be traced.
William Peers, who on entering religion took the surname of More from the hamlet near Tenbury that had been his home, was born in 1471 or 1472 and was shaven and clothed with the monastic habit in St Mary's cathedral priory in 1488.
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- The Religious Orders in England , pp. 108 - 126Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1979