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A History of the County of Dorset
… 1325, a jury of inquest declared that it would not be to the king's prejudice if he licensed William Darre, chaplain, to grant a messuage and 8 acres of land in Lyme to the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… were Dominican friars in residence at Newcastle-under-Lyme by July 1277 when Edward I, then nearby at Eccleshall, sent … progress of the Newcastle friars. Edward II, on a visit to the town in 1323, found only 12 friars there he bestowed 4 … to fall down, the rest slate and shingle'. All that could be done with most of it was to 'save the lead and slate and …
A History of the County of Kent
… nuns, or ' Sisters of the Order of St. Augustine according to the institutes and under the care of the Friars … England. The foundation of such a house was contemplated by Queen Eleanor of Castile, 1 and her son Edward II took the … house to a sisterhood, that the monastery of nuns should be made subject to the friary of King's Langley and should …
A History of the County of Dorset
… supported by the mastergeneral of the order, applied to the Holy See in 1418 for powers to make the foundation; … new foundation. They immediately established a chapel and set up an altar in one of the houses and began their … rector of Portland, who died in 1533, willed his body to be buried at the Friars Preachers here where he had built a …
A History of the County of Kent
… of England at their head, landed at Dover, and proceeding to Canterbury stayed two days at the priory of the Holy Trinity, i.e. at Christchurch. Four of them then set out for London, while the remaining five lodged at the … to buy wood in 1246, and six beech trees in 1272 seem to be the only grants by this king recorded in the Public …
A History of the County of Stafford
… at Lichfield, 2 but no contemporary evidence has survived to show who gave them their site. Royal letters patent 20 … given the friars 'certain free burgages in the town for to set their house on'. 4 In 1237 King Henry assigned the friars … was assigned to the houses of Lichfield and Winchelsea to be paid in instalments to relieve their indigence. 13 The …
A History of the County of Stafford
… OF STAFFORD The Friars Minor were settled in Stafford by 1274 when the bishop granted 20 days' indulgence to all who visited the friars' church on certain days and … and thus it remained throughout its existence. 7 It may be confidently surmised that its numbers were never large, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… the Lordes Botreaux and his wife were especial benefactors to this house. Thereupon his hert and hys wife's body were … there.' As early as 1246 13 Henry III ratified the gift by the burghers of Bridgwater of a place in their town where … Drokensford 21 ordered that his list of names should be everywhere published in the Consistories and in all the …
A History of the County of Bedford
… BEDFORD The house of the Grey Friars at Bedford was said by Leland to have been founded by Lady Mabel de Pattishall 1; the Valor … m. 18. L. and P. Hen. VIII. vii. 665. This can scarcely be the same as the warden who signed the deed of surrender; …
A History of the County of Dorset
… off the wall while building it. 25 It is said by Speed to have been built by the ancestors of Sir John Chideock. 26 … (I) that 40 s. of the profits of the mills should be set aside each year for repairs; (2) that the friars should …