# Westminster Abbey: The last days of the monastery as shown by the life and times of Abbot John Islip, 1464-1532

Author: Westlake, H. F. (Herbert Francis), 1879-1925

Genre: Category: History - British

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69852

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## Summary

The Rule of St. Benedict, made about the year 540, contemplated only some four officials as in the main responsible for the management of the monastery. These were the Abbot, Prior, Cellarer and Porter. St. Benedict indeed makes mention of a class of officers called Deans, each of whom would be responsible for a group of ten monks engaged in the work of the field which formed an essential part of his scheme of life, but in actual practice no record exists, in England at least, of the subsequent existence of such officers. In the monastic government also some further distinction was made as between the few monks who were priests and the majority who in the earlier years of monastic history...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/westminster-abbey-the-last-days-of-the-monastery-as-shown-by-th-c942ca80/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/westminster-abbey-the-last-days-of-the-monastery-as-shown-by-th-c942ca80/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/westminster-abbey-the-last-days-of-the-monastery-as-shown-by-th-c942ca80/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/westminster-abbey-the-last-days-of-the-monastery-as-shown-by-th-c942ca80/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/westminster-abbey-the-last-days-of-the-monastery-as-shown-by-th-c942ca80/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/westminster-abbey-the-last-days-of-the-monastery-as-shown-by-th-c942ca80/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/westminster-abbey-the-last-days-of-the-monastery-as-shown-by-th-c942ca80/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/westminster-abbey-the-last-days-of-the-monastery-as-shown-by-th-c942ca80/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I. The Management of the Monastery 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/westminster-abbey-the-last-days-of-the-monastery-as-shown-by-th-c942ca80/chapters/1/index.md)