Lesnes Abbey
Augustinian abbey in Kent, now in southeast London.
Today: Lesnes Abbey ruins, Abbey Wood, London, England
The Plague in the Bishop of Rochester’s Household
William Dene (attributed), History of the Church of Rochester, printed in Henry Wharton’s Anglia Sacra (1691) · soon after the events of 1348–1349
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Episcopus Roffensis Abbatias & Monasteria de Liesnes & Mallyng visitans, invenit ea ita destructa per malam diutinam custodiam; quòd durante isto saeculo usque ad diem judicii creditur ea non posse reparari.
The Bishop of Rochester visited the abbeys of Liesnes and Mallyng. He found them so ruined by years of bad management that people believed they could not be restored in this world, not before Judgment Day.