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The Finance of Malton Priory, 1244–1257
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At the beginning of the thirteenth century, the religious Orders held a strong position in England, with a fair prospect of extending their influence still further. Before the close, however, though outwardly the monasteries were more im-posing, internally there were already signs of decay. As the friars journeyed through England to execute the numerous Papal mandates, they had ample opportunities of observing the different houses of the religious, and their contemptuous remarks are therefore very suggestive. In their eyes the Cistercians were unlearned farmers, half laymen, and the Benedictines splendid epicures. Matthew Paris was stirred to wrath at the presumption of the friars in daring to criticise. He saw that the very causes which had altered the character of the other religious were at work among the friars themselves. Though scarcely forty years had passed since their founding, they were already occupied in amassing wealth and erecting stately buildings.
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