Yes, we may thank God, for if the most of your jewels are gone, the wide Abbey lands have come and other things.
This is perhaps an allusion to the problems that the Abbey faced when it came to trying to recover Abbey land from later Norman settlers.
The rulers of Provence give the Abbey land, castles, and even entire towns, such as Pertuis.
After the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the Abbey lands passed to the Crown and the wool trade to the villages and towns.
Eilmund: Forester for Abbey lands to the southeast of the Abbey, the Eyton Forest.
In the 16th century, the Abbey lands came under the direct control of the secular Butler dynasty.
Arrangements were made to determine the exact boundaries between the manor and the Abbey lands at Hound and Netley in January 1246.
The Abbey lands were sold to Sir Richard Williams (alias Cromwell).
After Bern imposed its will on the Oberland, they secularized the Abbey and annexed all the Abbey lands.
After the Reformation, Bern created the Interlaken bailiwick from the Abbey lands.