Dear all,
If you look up google books, you will see there is a volume published by
OUP about the group of Abbeys of which Catley was one.
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Synopsis
This is the first full edition of the canonization dossier of St. Gilbert of Sempringham,
who died in 1189 and was canonized in 1202. It is a document of exceptional interest for
the history of the canonization process in Rome, for the history of the one English
religious Order of the Middle
Ages, the Order of Sempringham, and for the biography of the founder himself, St. Gilbert.
The order was founded to be primarily an Order of women, was confined to England, and so
disappeared at the Reformation
Title The Book of St Gilbert
Author(s) Saint Gilbert of Sempringham
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication Date May 28, 1987
Subject Biography / Autobiography
Format Hardcover
Pages 400
Dimensions 5.50 x 8.50 x 1.25 in
ISBN 0198222602
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It was one of 8 branches created between 1148 and 1154
and the group carried out alot of work as hospitals etc..
Quote from the book :-
"Catley, endowed with the whole island of the same name
in the marsh of Walcot, by Peter, son of Henry of Billinghay"
Does the above sentence suggest that the island was called
Catley before it became an Abbey?? Or did we already know
that???
kayh