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| | The Weston Mercury (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | It is not enough to know what may be termed the mere bones of the Priory's history: the reason for its foundation, craftsmanship put into building it, names of its priors, its links with the district, what happened at the Dissolution, and its successive owners down the centuries after it became converted into a farmhouse. |
 | | Nevertheless, a Woodspring Priory monk faced onerous duties allied with general practices that were divided into seven canonical hours, providing for matins and lauds, prime terce, sext, none, vespers and compline. |
 | | The small Woodspring community's religious observance would have been restricted by the immense labour needed to provide life's necessities and to ensure productivity and income from estates. |
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