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A History of the County of Lincoln
… Alien houses The priory of Hough 121. THE PRIORY OF HOUGH The manor on which the … Hough was afterwards built was granted by Henry I to his abbey of St. Mary de Voto at Cherbourg, for Austin canons. The parent abbey itself at its foundation contained only an abbot and …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Alien houses The priory of Lapley 40. THE PRIORY OF LAPLEY In 1061 Burchard, son of … Burchard expressed a wish to be buried in the Benedictine abbey of St. Remy at Rheims and promised that land should be given to the abbey on his behalf. Very soon after his son's death Earl …
A History of the County of Norfolk
… Alien houses The priory of Lessingham 119. THE PRIORY OF LESSINGHAM 1 The lordship of Lessingham, together with the … the time of William Rufus by Gerard de Gurney to the great abbey of Bec in Normandy. The small priory of Lessingham …
A History of the County of Kent
… Alien houses The priory of Lewisham 71. THE PRIORY OF LEWISHAM Elstrudis, countess of … Greenwich, and Woolwich of her inheritance to the abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul, Ghent, for the good .of the … prayer of his friend Dunstan, under whose governance the abbey was in the time of his brother King Eadwi, granted to …
A History of the County of Dorset
… Alien houses The priory of Loders 34. THE PRIORY OF LODERS This alien priory, cell to … the manor which Richard de Redvers had given to the Norman abbey, said to be of his foundation. Henry I by charter … and children, and all his relations, he had granted to the abbey of Montebourg and Urse its abbot that the manor of
A History of the County of Lincoln
… Alien houses The priory of Long Bennington 120. THE PRIORY OF LONG BENNINGTON The church of Long Bennington was presented by Ralf de Fougres to the abbey of Savigny in 1163, 1 and the grant was confirmed by …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Alien houses The priory of Minster Lovell 50. THE PRIORY OF MINSTER LOVELL The priory of Minster Lovell, attached to the abbey of Ivry in Normandy, was founded by Maud, widow of … with the consent of William her son. She gave to the abbey of Ivry the church of Minster Lovell, and William, …
A History of the County of Lincoln
… Alien houses The priory of Minting 113. THE PRIORY OF MINTING The priory of Minting, … grant made by Ranulf de Meschines, earl of Chester, to the abbey of Fleury. The grant was made before 1129, 1 but it is … in 1213. The priory does not seem to have done the parent abbey much credit. About 1238 Bishop Grosteste wrote to the …
A History of the County of Kent
… Alien houses The priory of New Romney 73. THE PRIORY OF NEW ROMNEY The Cistercian Abbey of Pontigny in France owed its possessions at Romney to … of Canterbury. Thomas Becket was received at the abbey while in exile, 1 as was also Stephen Langton; and the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Alien houses The priory of Newent 18. THE PRIORY OF NEWENT About 1060 William FitzOsborn founded the … house. 3 There is no evidence in the registers of the bishops of Hereford to show that they exercised any control …
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