Identifier: walkinaboutcityo00gost (find matches)
Title: A walk in and about the city of Canterbury, with many observations not to be found in any description hitherto published
Year: 1825 (1820s)
Authors: Gostling, William, 1696-1777
Subjects: Canterbury (England) -- Guidebooks
Publisher: Canterbury, W. Blackley (etc.)
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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tter as relates tothis difference of our notions, and shall begin with what he says concerningthe punishments inflicted by the monks on those who behaved so as to re-(pure correction. He begins witli observing that as rigid fasting was the general establishedrule of the religious of the Benedictine order, an offending brother when inclose custody Avas subjected to a still more severe state of abstinence, andof course could have little need of an oven. He tells us the culpable monkswere ranged by the archbishop under three classes. That an offender fora slight fault was to have the ordinary diet of the convent, but not to eat ittill three hours after the customary time of refreshment; and while hisbrethren were in the refectory, was to remain in the church by himself. Ifthe crime was of a deeper dye, the guilty brother was to be committed tothe special custody of anollwr monk, who was always to attend him to andfrom his place of conline«Knt, (was not this a prison ?) and the prior was
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^ 265 At this chapel we see how the east end of theold church began to contract itself towards thecircular form in which it was finished. Herealso begins the ascent to the chapel of the HolyTrinity, which was added after the fire: butbefore we proceed thither, some notice should be to give the particular directions about his provisions, and the liour ofhis receiving it. But a profligate and contumacious criminal was to be seized by violence,and cast into the prison appointed for atrocious criminals, and brought,if possible, by the harshest discipline, to a sense and public acknowledg-ment of his transgression. Thus far perhaps my reader may think as I do, W. and D. has employedhis labour and study in defence of what he calls an unfortunate conjecture,and the supporting my opinion by authorities which would have been morejtroper for me to produce. What he says about Lanfrancs constitutions and his zeal for transubstan-tiation, shows his reading, but has very little to do with our diffe

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