Quarr Abbey, or the Mistaken Calling

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Excerpt from Quarr Abbey, or the Mistaken Calling: A Tale of the Isle of Wight in the Xiiith CenturyAs the Abbot of Quarr may appear to the reader to be a mythical personage, a sort of "lusus naturæ, " of whose existained, it is as well to state that he is in some sense a historical reality. But not, it may be argued, historical in the sense of the poem, since instead of the beautiful character there described, he was a haughty, imperious churchman, and his quarrel with Isabella de Fortibus nothing more not less than an ambitions struggle for the patronage of livings to which, as sovereign of the Isle of Wight, she had clearly the right of presentation. But was the right so clear?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.