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Date sent: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 14:57:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Izbicki <[log in to unmask]> Subject: RE: Burton Abbey - Wealthiest in Staffordshire To: [log in to unmask] Copies to: [log in to unmask] Send reply to: [log in to unmask] Referring to Durham as an episcopal church should not cause us to ignore its cathedral's eventual role as a monastic foundation. How wealthy would a monastic cathedral like Durham or Canterbury be compared to a monastery like St. Alban's? tom izbicki David Knowles did a useful set of rankings in The Monastic Order. Christ Church Canterbury was at the top by some way as far as I can remember (I don't have my copy of Knowles here). I suspect that Durham was rather richer than St Albans but I don't have the information to hand and don't want to speculate. Neither Durham nor St Albans was poor. Julia Barrow %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%