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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… site, eight churches within the borough, exclusive of the abbey church of St. Edith, and four within the suburbs. It … 20 At an early date the rectory was appropriated to the abbey and devoted to the nuns' pittances. In 1291 it was … was 5 6 s. 8 d. 23 Since it was regarded as part of the abbey property, it passed with that property at the time of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… the decline of Wilton in any way to the dissolution of the abbey in 1539, for the decay of the town had been in progress …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… was still fulled in the mill in Washern acquired by the abbey in the reign of Richard II; in the 16th century this … were not negligible, and after the dissolution of the abbey the sheep and pasture rights of the abbess and her …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Sir William Herbert, who by 1544 had also acquired Wilton Abbey and the bulk of its estates. 20 From thence onwards the … in the immediate neighbourhood of Wilton were held by the abbey at the time of Domesday, and were retained by the nuns … paid geld for 8 hides and Ugford for 4 hides; while the abbey estate of Ditchampton consisted of only hide since the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Dissolution, for it was not granted with the rest of the abbey possessions to Sir William Herbert. Eighteenth-century … two great periods of inclosure: the first when much of the abbey property which had passed to Sir William Herbert was … fields were in demesne, representing no doubt the former abbey holdings: 51 in the East field, the earl held 180 a. in …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… and one time Customer of Poole. The influence of the abbey was surprisingly small although it is possible to …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… suggested that the shrine is that of St. Edith in Wilton Abbey, and the female figure is an abbess: E. H. Goddard, …
The Environs of London
… Milton, erected a monument to his memory in Westminster Abbey. He himself was author of an Essay on Virgil's …
A History of the County of Somerset
… been a plasterer and is said to have worked at Fonthill Abbey and to have been responsible for the ceiling of the …