Vesper or matin-song resound not as of old within the fine conventual church.

Stripped are the altars of their silver crosses, and the shrines of their votive offerings and saintly relics.

Pyx and chalice, thuribule and vial, golden-headed pastoral staff, and mitre embossed with pearls, candlestick and Christmas ship of silver; salver, basin, and ewer--all are gone--the splendid sacristy hath been despoiled.
A sad, sad change hath come over Whalley Abbey.

The libraries, well stored with reverend tomes, have been pillaged, and their contents cast to the flames; and thus long laboured manuscript, the fruit of years of patient industry, with gloriously illuminated missal, are irrecoverably lost.

The large infirmary no longer receiveth the sick; in the locutory sitteth no more the guest.