sentences:  He also maintained high standards of religious life at the abbey, and he and his seven monks were the object of good reports to the king from the local gentry and were much respected in the neighbourhood.That the Abbot was also trusted by the government, is shown by his being given custody of two Franciscan friars, who presumably had offended the king by opposing his religious policies.Notwithstanding the Abbot's apparent complacency, those policies were soon to have a dramatic effect on his own life.