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 | | Though Beauchief was not properly a cell to Welbeck, it nevertheless had a great dependence upon that house; and the superintendance of the abbat of Welbeck was grounded, it seems, on some papal bull now lost" (pp. |
 | | There was a park, of about 200 acres, and water sufficient, both for the use of the house, and for supplying the table with fish, a matter to which the monks of all orders were constantly attentive. |
 | | By the return to the Population Act in 1811, Beauchief Abbey contained 15 houses and as many families, 9 of whom were employed in agriculture and 6 in trade, consisting of 46 males and 52 females, total 98. |
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