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A History of the County of Oxford
… or earlier, of the demesne land and site of Godstow abbey as an extra-parochial area, altered the southern and … was composed of the site and demesne lands of Godstow abbey, a Benedictine nunnery founded c. 1133 on land given by … St. John, the lord of Wolvercote manor. 36 The site of the abbey, between streams of the Thames, was thus presumably …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Local government Local government In 1279 Godstow abbey had view of frankpledge in Wolvercote, and the royal … had entry into the manor only by the king's writ. The abbey also had rights of toll, pleas and perquisites of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… granted Wolvercote to Henry II who gave it to Godstow abbey. 63 The abbey held the manor until the Dissolution, and in 1541 it … abbess, the land called GODSTOW on which she had built her abbey, and soon afterwards he, Reynold of St. Valery, and the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Wolvercote Site and remains of Godstow abbey Site and remains of Godstow abbey Godstow abbey was built on an island between streams of the Thames …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of the Carthew family, still retains the name of the Abbey. In 1666, upwards of 327 inhabitants died of the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… the house, is fragmentary. ConditionOf house, good. b(5). Abbey Farm, house 180 yards S.W. of (4), is of one storey …
Alumni Oxonienses
… St. Mary Hall, matric. 1 July, 1603, aged 15; of Boxley Abbey, student of Gray's Inn 1604 (as s. George, of Boxley, … 16; student of Gray's Inn 1618 (as s. George, of Boxley Abbey, Kent, esq.); brother of the next. See Foster's Gray's … Leoline Jenkins"; died 16 May, 1765, buried in Westminster abbey 23rd. See Foster's Judges and Barristers; Woolrych's …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… which was held in the manor court by Cirencester Abbey's bailiffs. 40 View of frankpledge was claimed by the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… in the early 11th century by King Cnut, who gave it to Ely abbey in 1022 in exchange for Cheveley. 58 Archbishop Stigand later held it as lessee or custodian of the abbey, and on his death in 1072 it was taken by William I. … Cal. Pat. 13916, 300. Feud. Aids, vi. 407; Westminster Abbey Mun. 13890; Cal. Close, 14059, 364. Cal. Pat. 14229, …
The Environs of London
… was another manor, or whether the Hickmans held under the Abbey of Waltham, I am not certain; but think the latter more … ago. It is thus described in the record of Doomsday: The Abbey of Waltham Holycross has, from time immemorial, held …