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rest, with the addition of a half-pound of white bread, and an extra 
portion, if possible, of eggs. On the second and third day this was 
to be increased in amount, and other strengthening food was given 
him. In some places these meals were served in the infirmary after 
blood-letting, and it was directed that the infirmary servant should, 
on the first day after the bleeding, get ready for the patients, sage 
and parsley, washed in salt water, and a dish of soft eggs. ‘‘ Those 
who found it necessary to be cupped or scarified more frequently,” 
adds our set of regulations, “‘ had to get leave, but were not to 
expect to stay away from regular duties on that account.” 
I am indebted for the foregoing to Abbot Gasquet’s English 
Monastic Life. 
Undoubtedly the house was then standing surrounded by its 
moat or dyke in the days of Abbot Bromley ; what it may have been 
used for before is uncertain, but I have little doubt myself that it 
was the Manor House of the de Sobenhal family. By Abbot Bromley’s 
gift it became a Sanatorium. 
Robert Longdone succeeded as Abbot. He died 1340. 
Robert Brickhull was made Abbot, and we hear of him that he 
made a large barn and a dove cote with other buildings at Shopinhale. 
Whatever the house we are speaking of had been, Manor House, 
Grange, Park Lodge or what, this evidently refers to what is now 
called Shobnall Grange, Robert died in 1348. 
As I have no documentary evidence I cannot make at present a 
positive assertion, but it looks as if the Magna Pestilentia visited 
Burton, for we have a change in Abbots in the very year of that 
dreadful time. We can only touch upon this subject in passing. 
If any of you want to follow it up and see the fearful destruction of 
life read Dr. Jessopp, on The Black Death or better still Abbot Gasquet 
on the same subject or go look at some old Church or Monastic 
building and you will see traces of it written in stone. Consult the 
Court rolls of any ancient Manor. 800 beneficed Clergy perished in 
Norfolk and Suffolk alone. In the religious houses the plague 
wrought worse havoc. There were seven nunneries in Norfolk and 
Suffolk, five of them lost their prioresses, how many of the nuns, who 
can guess. In the college of S. Mary in the fields at Norwich five of 
the seven prebendaries died. In September the Abbot of S. Benets 
