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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… splendid monument, said to have been removed from Burstall Abbey, and bearing marks of high antiquity. There is a place …
A History of the County of Somerset
… of Barrow had a piece of meadow in Sydenham. 91 Athelney abbey had a close of land in Wembdon in 1535. 92 V.C.H. Som. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… This place is of considerable antiquity. Prior to 1267 an abbey was founded by William de Wendling, in honour of the … partakes, in a very remote degree, of the style of the abbey, being partly Norman, and partly decorated English; it … fine screen-work, which is said to have belonged to the abbey of St. Agatha, near Richmond. The chapelries of …
A History of the County of Essex
… 55 MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. In 1066 and 1086 Westminster Abbey was holding Wennington as a manor and 2 hides. 56 … tradition, mentioned land in Wennington given to the abbey. 57 The most specific, c. 10424, confirmed to the abbey the burh at Wennington and 4 hides, with the church and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the reign of John, by the Earl of Clare, as a cell to the abbey of Mounstroll, in France; it was given in 1321 to the abbey of West Dereham, and at the Dissolution had a revenue …
A History of the County of Essex
… Hall demesne and the river Colne. Although St. John's abbey held some land near Fordham, much of its estate … assarted during the middle ages. 44 Lands given to the abbey in the mid 13th century were inclosed with hedges and … 18 a. in three coppices, previously part of the St. John's abbey Armoury farm, were added to the Bergholt Hall woods. 70 …
A History of the County of Essex
… was Stephen's steward and later a monk at St. John's abbey, Colchester, and was probably succeeded by his son … Pirifield, from which much land was granted to St. John's abbey. 17 The fee apparently took its name from Robert of … the reversion from Ralph or his successors, as St. John's abbey later owed 9 d. rent in Bergholt to William Beaumond …
Old and New London
… his taking leave of that kingdom, he retired to Spinney Abbey, near Soham, in Cambridgeshire, where he died in 1673. … casts of effigies from monuments in Westminster Abbey, Canterbury Cathedral, and other places; and also an …
A History of the County of Stafford
… accounted for almost half the value of the small Halesowen abbey estate, and a case of 1293 in which the abbot … in West Bromwich. At the end of the 15th century the abbey was drawing £6 13 s. 4 d. a year from pastures in … certainly to be identified with the mill which Halesowen abbey owned in 1223 as part of the estate in West Bromwich …
A History of the County of Stafford
… which became known as Friar Park belonged to Halesowen abbey in the Middle Ages. By 1223 the abbey had about 25 a. and a mill in West Bromwich, the gift of a lord of the manor. 24 By 1291 the abbey's West Bromwich property consisted of a carucate of …