They targeted the abbey because the saint's jurisdiction adjoined their minster and presumably in the hope of its patronage.
The minster clergy petitioned the bailiffs on her behalf for licence to enclose, but the bailiffs refused.
The history of the pre-tenth-century minster is hard to reconstruct : the eighteen charters surviving that purport to date from the period before 900 all present serious interpretative difficulties.
There are new discoveries as yet unexhibited as well as, of course, the noble and splendid minster.
Neither of those misfortunes can diminish their faith or their ability to minster religion with conviction.
If a minister ceases to be a minster, he can apply for membership of the regiment in his non-ministerial capacity.
I would suggest he waits to see the mint directors' report to the finance ministers and the conclusions which the finance minsters draw from that report.
The provost had responsibility for the administration of the lands owned by the minster and for the general revenues of the chapter.
