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Abbey, Reading

1910 New Catholic Dictionary

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Surrey, England. Founded in 1121 by Henry I. An independent English abbey, though retaining the Cluniac observance. Leominster in England, and Rindelgros and May in Scotland were under its jurisdiction. It disappeared at the Dissolution. It is still used as a title by Benedictine abbots.

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Entry for 'Abbey, Reading'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ncd/​a/abbey-reading.html. 1910.
 
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