Excerpt from Presented to the Library of the University of Toronto: The Estate of the Late Hugh Hornby Langton Hugh was a favourite of the Conqueror, and it so happened that William had at this time a pious desire to foster the growth of religious houses. Hugh's story thus fell on willing ears when he recounted to the monarch how he had found the monk of Auxerre and the devotees gathered round him. The King took Benedict under his protection, and history states, -with some degree of prob ability, that while William and his queen, Matilda, were on a visit to the North of England, they stayed at Selby Abbey, and there William's son, Henry Beauclerc, who lived to become Henry I, was born. Under the auspices of the King, and with Hugh's generous assistance, Benedict soon began to see his projects on the way to realisation. Necessary financial aid was freely accorded, and the royal gifts of several large estates, with their accompanying titles and a total exemption from taxation, put the monastery before long in the possession of considerable wealth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.