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| | The History of Buckfast Abbey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | The history of Buckfast Abbey is extraordinary, since it is the only English medieval monastery to have been restored and used again for its original purpose. |
 | | In 1315, Buckfast was listed along with Forde, Newenham and Torre Abbey as an exporter of wool to Florence, although it is likely that, in line with most Abbeys in the country, Buckfast was sending wool to Italy by the end of the previous century. |
 | | At Buckfast in the 12th century, there may have been as many as 60 choir monks, and perhaps twice as many lay-brothers; between 1500 and 1539, only 22 monks were ordained, ten of whom remained at the Dissolution and signed the deed of surrender. |
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