Geoffrey Riddell Bishop of Ely […] made a request of him for timber from his woods towards certain edifices going on at Glemsford. The Abbot, a great builder himself, disliked the request; could not however give it a negative.

From euery worke he chalenged essoyne.

the spirit of wine depends fo much upon the strength of the former liquor , and the dephlegmedness of the latter

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