Crossword-Solution: ABBESSES 8 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

And as soon as he was king, he ordained a great council to meet in the place that is called Bapchild; in which presided Wihtred, King of Kent, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Brihtwald, and Bishop Tobias of Rochester; and with him were collected abbots and abbesses, and many wise men, all to consult about the advantage of God's churches that are in Kent.

Thus it came to pass that while the stricken poor agonised in the grip of unknown horror, bishop and merchant, prince and chapman, fine ladies in gorgeous litters, abbesses with their train of nuns, and many more, fled north, east, and west, from the pestilent cities, and encumbered the roads with much traffic.

Her skin bore the yellow tinge which colors the austere faces of abbesses who have been famous for their macerations.

Some of the stones which covered the later abbesses have inscriptions, which might yet be read, if the chapel were cleansed.

Andrew's cross through the very gates of Jerusalem, what maiden, however saintly, could refuse him his guerdon? And he knew that, for the present, Esclairmonde was safe from retiring into any convent, since her high birth and great possessions would make any such establishment expect a large dower with her as a right, and few abbesses would have ventured to receive a runaway foreigner, especially as one of her guardians was the Bishop of Therouenne.