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Journal of the House of Lords
… Weather, in September last, he was driven into Brest, in Brittany, where the said Ship was arrested, at the Suit of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… PRIORY OF SPINNEY In 1086 Wimar, steward of the Count of Brittany, held the manor of Wicken with lands in Fordham and …
A History of the County of Norfolk
… in 1361, granted 9 towards the expenses of John duke of Brittany, for his expenses in this pilgrimage, and licence of …
A History of the County of Essex
… founded as a cell to the abbey of St. Melaine at Rennes in Brittany, probably some time about 1135, by Aubrey de Vere …
A History of the County of Durham
… to his church a foreigner, one William du Stiphel, of Brittany, and employed him in transcribing Jerome's Eusebius …
A History of the County of Dorset
… together with numerous relics procured from Rome and Brittany, including the arm and bones of St. Sampson, …
A History of the County of Kent
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… a child-martyr, was venerated in the region of Morlaix, Brittany. His body was buried at Lanmeur (dep. Finistre), but … the story is plausible. There was much intercourse between Brittany and Britain in the 10th and early 11th centuries. Incursions of Northmen into Brittany had been followed by a migration of Bretons into …
A History of the County of Hertford
… in honour of St. John Baptist c. 1164 1 by Conan Duke of Brittany and Earl of Richmond, at Rowney in the parish of …
A History of the County of Kent
… by some nuns of the abbey of St. Sulpice, at Rennes in Brittany, of which she was abbess, 1 and bringing with her as …