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Excerpt from Westminster Abbey: The Last Days of the Monastery as Shown by the Life and Times of Abbot John Islip, 1464-1532 The story of the last forty years of the monastery of Westminster centres round two persons. In the thirty-two years of John Islip's rule as Abbot he raised its glory to a height which it had never before attained. In the eight years that followed Abbot Boston reduced it to a level which made its dissolu tion easy. To plead that Boston was merely Cromwell's tool is to offer but little excuse, for it was a position Islip would have disdained to occupy. Had Islip lived to witness an end which perhaps was inevitable he might well have been involved in a tragedy such as that of Abbot Whiting of Glaston bury. As a man on the fringe of public life some accusation would not have been difficult to fabricate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.