"Commendator" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Huguenot model. All demands for restitution of the church property which they were pillaging they set aside as a "fond imagination." The new ministers remained poor and dependent, while noble after noble was hanging an abbot to seize his estates in forfeiture, or roasting a commendator to wring from him a grant of abbey-lands ...
— History of the English People - Volume 4 (of 8) • John Richard Green |
