CHAPTER IV

THE SUPPRESSION

Abbey lands and dignities 117

Abbot John Darnton, 1479-1494 117

Abbot Marmaduke Huby, 1494-1526 119

_Builds the tower_ 119

The Monasteries and the Reformation 120

Abbot John Thirsk, 1526-1536 123

Abbot Marmaduke Bradley, 1536-1539 125

The coming of the King’s commissioners 125

_The spoiling of the Abbey_, 1539 126

The subsequent owners 129

ILLUSTRATIONS

Fountains Abbey, from a water-colour drawing by J. M. W. Turner, in the possession of J. E. Taylor, Esq. (photogravure) _Frontispiece_

The East End of the Abbey (photogravure) _To face page_ 24

The Interior, looking west (photogravure) “ 40

Historical Ground Plan (coloured) _The End_

The Cellarium (photogravure) “ 52

Principal Patterns of the Roman Floors at Fountains Abbey, from a print by Wm. Fowler of Winterton “ 72

The Abbey from the South-East (photogravure) “ 80

The Abbey from the South-West (photogravure) “ 96

Fountains Hall (photogravure) “ 128

Plan of the Precinct _The End_

[These plans are derived from the _Yorkshire Archæological Journal_ vol. xv.]

ERRATA

Plate facing page 52. _For_ “The Cloisters” _read_ “The Cellarium”

Page 9, lines 3 and 13. _For_ “Rievaux” _read_ “Rievaulx”