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A History of the County of Worcester
… Suckley had been given by William Earl of Hereford to the abbey he had founded at Cormeilles. 134 At the forfeiture of … was valued at 17 6 s. 8 d., besides the portions of the abbey of Cormeilles, 3 6 s. 8 d., and of the Prior of Great … were made by the Priors of Newent, procurators of the abbey of Cormeilles in England, except when the possessions …
A History of the County of Northampton
… Sudborough Green, with Sudborough Green Lodge. Westminster Abbey. Gules the crossed keys of St. Peter with the ring of … was granted in 1066 by Edward the Confessor to the abbey of Westminster, 1 which in 1086 held 3 hides with a … diminished to 2 hides. 3 In 1276 it was stated that the abbey had return of writs in Sudborough and Islip, 4 and in …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… until it appears amongst the possessions of Reading Abbey at the close of the 12th century. 9 At that time one of the tenants of the abbey, Robert Pincent (Punzun), was deeply in debt and … as well as various smaller pieces of land to Reading Abbey. 12 Gervase and Gilbert Pincent also granted land to …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… of John Bannister made various grants of land to Reading Abbey at the beginning of the 13th century. 11 Later in the … granted certain of his lands in Sulhamstead to Reading Abbey 14 about this date, and the latter, in the time of … Richard, 15 remitted the rent from this land paid by the abbey. From this time the Bannister family continued to hold …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… SUNNINGWELL is said to have been granted to Abingdon Abbey by Caedwalla, the grant being confirmed by Kenulf in … (q.v.) in the Sunningwell family, and was bought by the abbey with that manor in the middle of the 13th century. 25 … 26 It is uncertain whether this was recovered by the abbey. The manor was kept by the abbots in their own hands …
A History of the County of Surrey
… part of the lands included in the alleged gift to Chertsey Abbey of 727 (for which see Beddington) as well as in those … and Edgar confirming the original donation. In 1086 5 the abbey of St. Peter of Chertsey held land at Sutton assessed … the 18th century. In 1537 the pension payable to Chertsey Abbey from the rectory was granted as part of the endowment …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… as its name indicates, the village is south of Malmesbury abbey which is likely to have owned it long before the … stands west of it. Manor. Sutton, mentioned in Malmesbury abbey's copy of a charter from King Ethelwulf in 854, 42 is likely to have been owned by the abbey long before the Conquest. The abbey later claimed that …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… abbot's mill and meadows. It was then appropriated to the abbey almonry. 9 In the Courtenay lands were two windmills … green. At some distance south-west of the church is the Abbey, formerly known as the Rectory House, the residence of … Henry Norton Good, at one time a grange of Abingdon Abbey, and afterwards the seat of the Justice family. It is a …
A History of the County of Warwick
… in Gloucestershire 2 which had been given to Westminster Abbey at its foundation by Edward the Confessor. 3 It had … whose possessions were shared between Westminster and the Abbey of S. Denis near Paris. 4 It remained in the hands of … Honor of Gloucester as knight's fee in 1386. 6 By 1535 the abbey's estate was yielding rather over 22 yearly. 7 After …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… from this estate, which belonged likewise to the above abbey; and in king Edward II.'s reign, the archbishop's …