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A History of the County of Oxford
… of Holwell Grange, an outlying grange of the Cistercian abbey of Bruern. The early forms of the name Holwell suggest … Epwell, 89 and before 1228 gave land in Fawler to Eynsham Abbey. 90 Certainly in 1242 Robert (II) de Wykeham claimed to … when his son Thomas (II) granted land in Fawler to Eynsham Abbey. 105 This Thomas, called 'of Woodstock', married …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… into three parts, of which the largest was held by Wilton abbey. 44 The overlordship of that part or of the whole estate passed from the abbey to the Crown at the Dissolution, was granted in 1544 to … title, and was last expressly mentioned in 1630. 46 Wilton abbey's lands were apparently those held by Robert Giffard …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… of Shinfield, and with Shinfield (q.v.) was granted to the abbey of Lire by William Fitz Osbern, passing later to the …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… a charter which they had previously made to Woburn Abbey, giving this house all their land in Swanbourne except … to Woburn ( vide infra) and in 1255 the possessions of the abbey here amounted to 13 hides of land. 12 In 1326 the abbot … many oak and ash trees. 13 Swanbourne remained among the abbey's possessions until the Dissolution, 14 and was granted …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… St. Augustine's, Canterbury, from a MSS. history of that abbey, drawn up by Thomas Sport, and others, chroniclers … and his body being brought into England was buried in the abbey church of Westminster, at the head of Edmund, earl of …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… in 903 by Edward the Elder to the New Minster or Hyde Abbey. 9 Although Swarraton is not mentioned in Domesday Book … 3 hides and 3 virgates which Hugh de Port held of Hyde Abbey as parcel of the manor of Micheldever. 10 This theory … granted it by the name of the grange of Swarraton to the abbey of Waverley, 14 and his grant was afterwards confirmed …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… which seems to have once belonged to St. Mildred's abbey, in Thanet, was given by king Eadred, in 946, to one of … of the manors, possessions, and liberties belonging to the abbey, by Edward III. in his 10th year, and by his charter of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in a 13th-century charter and along which some of Thame Abbey's land lay. 11 Sewell Lane, running south from the … which lies on the site of the medieval grange of Thame Abbey, retains no features of interest apart from its … and it was his son Roger who granted the manor to Thame Abbey. The abbey had long been a considerable landholder in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… presumably in fact a double mill, were given to Eynsham abbey before 1176. The abbey granted the mills away between 1241 and 1264, but … 1085 granted the church, with its glebe and tithe, to the abbey of St. Sever (Vau de Vire, diocese of Coutances), a …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… (III) had given 1 yardland in free alms to St. Peter's abbey, Shrewsbury, by exchange. 117 The land, all occupied by … rentpaying free tenants in 1279, 118 was retained by the abbey 119 until 1445, when it passed by exchange to Henry VI, … assured to the occupants of the land given to Shrewsbury abbey continued sharing in the customary easements. 177 In …