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A History of the County of Dorset
… Alien houses The priory of Povington 35. THE PRIORY OF POVINGTON Povington, formerly … the many charters granted in favour of this Norman abbey by the Norman and early Plantagenet kings, 94 the claim … described as a grange. The pancarta of this foreign abbey, granted by Henry VI (Pat. 12 Hen. VI, pt. 1, m. 13), …
A History of the County of Dorset
… Alien houses The priory of Spettisbury 36. THE PRIORY OF SPETTISBURY Robert de … of Meulan, in the reign of William Rufus granted to the abbey of St. Peter of Praux in Normandy, twin foundation to the other abbey of St. Leodegar or Leger on whom his father Roger had …
A History of the County of Norfolk
… Alien houses The priory of Sporle 120. THE PRIORY OF SPORLE This small alien priory … early in the twelfth century as a cell of the Benedictine abbey of St. Florent, Saumur, in the diocese of Angers, and … II, by bull of 18 February, 1123, confirmed to the abbey of St. Florent, among other English possessions, the …
A History of the County of Norfolk
… Alien houses The priory of St Winwalloe, Wereham 123. THE PRIORY OF ST. WINWALOE, … in the sixth century, and whose body was enshrined in the abbey of Monsterol in the diocese of Amiens, France. Of that abbey the priory of St. Winwaloe was a cell. The earliest …
A History of the County of Kent
… Alien houses The priory of Throwley 74. THE PRIORY OF THROWLEY The alien priory of Throwley, a cell to the abbey of St. Bertin at St. Omer in France, was founded about … then claimed it; but Pope Alexander III ordered the bishops of Exeter and Worcester to hear the case, and it was …
A History of the County of Norfolk
… Alien houses The priory of Toft Monks 121. THE PRIORY OF TOFT MONKS 1 Robert de … in Normandy, and of Leicester in England, granted to the abbey of Praux in Normandy, in the time of William Rufus, the … of confirmation of their English possessions to the abbey of Praux, including the gift of Roger de Bellomonte of …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Alien houses The priory of Tutbury ALIEN HOUSES 39. THE PRIORY OF TUTBURY On the … of Tutbury Priory, a dependency of the Benedictine abbey of St. Pierresur-Dives in Normandy, is generally … of Archbishops Theobald, Becket, and Richard to the bishops and archdeacons concerned, ordering them to support …
A History of the County of Dorset
… Alien houses The priory of Wareham 37. THE PRIORY OF WAREHAM An ancient monastery, … 133 After the Conquest a priory or cell to the Norman abbey of Lire, founded by William Fitz Osborn, kinsman and … with the churches and lands in Wareham granted to the abbey by Robert earl of Leicester. A charter in the register …
A History of the County of Norfolk
… Alien houses The priory of Welle or Well Hall in Gayton 122. THE PRIORY OF WELLE OR … and the advowson of the church of St. Nicholas on the abbey of St. Stephen, Caen. The abbey established here a small priory or cell of Benedictine …
A History of the County of Lincoln
… Alien houses The priory of Wenghale 118. THE PRIORY OF WENGHALE The date of the foundation and the name of the … in Owersby of the Earl of Mortain. It was a cell of the abbey of Ses in Normandy, for Benedictine monks, and the …