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A History of the County of Essex
… Alien houses West Mersea 46. THE PRIORY OF WEST MERSEA Mersea was granted to the abbey of St. Ouen at Rouen by Edward the Confessor; … The reversion of the priory came to Henry V by the Act of Parliament passed in the second year of his reign dissolving …
A History of the County of Essex
… Alien houses Writtle 49. THE HOSPITAL OF WRITTLE Pope Innocent III. having founded for … King John at his request granted 1 the church of Writtle to it on 25 March, 1204, and also granted 100 marks yearly at … the Exchequer until the church should be vacant. This came about in 1218, and on 1 October Pope Honorius III ordered 2 …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Alien priories The priory of Steventon ALIEN PRIORIES 34. THE ALIEN PRIORY … time of Henry I, when the manor was granted by that king to the great abbey of Bec, Normandy. 1 In 1294 the king … by abbeys subject to French government. According to that return the priory manor of Steventon had a garden and two …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Alien priories The priory of Stratfield Saye 35. THE ALIEN PRIORY OF … of Stratfield Saye, with a small hermitage dedicated to St. Leonard within the parish, to his newlyfounded abbey of Vallemont, in Normandy, about the year 1170. 8 Two or more monks of the abbey lived …
Historical gazetteer of London before the Great Fire
… All Hallows Honey Lane 11/0 Introduction The church of All Hallows Honey Lane lay surrounded on three … houses at the N. end of Honey Lane, some 200 ft. (61 m.) to the N. of Cheapside. It was destroyed in the Great Fire … Even after this enlargement the parish of All Hallows, at about 1 acre (0.4 hectare) in extent, was one of the smallest …
Historical gazetteer of London before the Great Fire
… 11/10 Introduction This property lay in Cheapside, bounded to the W. by 8 and 9 and to the E. by 11, and stretching some … the priory of St. Mary Overy, Southwark, in free alms. At about that time the priory was paying John son of Terricus a …
Historical gazetteer of London before the Great Fire
… Honey Lane 11/11 Introduction This property, bounded to the W. by 10, to the E. by 12, and to the N. by property in St. Lawrence Jewry parish had a Cheapside frontage of about 25 ft. (7.62 m.) and ran back 167 ft. (50.9 m.) or more …
Historical gazetteer of London before the Great Fire
… All Hallows Honey Lane 11/12 Introduction This property, at the E. end of the parish, was bounded to the W. by 11, to the N. and E. by properties in St. … to the church of All Hallows Honey Lane for a chantry. The return of 1546 names Thomas Trumpington, John Worsopp, and …
Historical gazetteer of London before the Great Fire
… All Hallows Honey Lane 11/2 Introduction This tenement, on the W. corner of Honey Lane and Cheapside, was bounded to the W. by 1 and to the N. by 3. In 1858 this was no. 112 … his wife granted it back to Eccleston and his heirs, in return for a £15 annuity charged on the property, payable …
Historical gazetteer of London before the Great Fire
… lay in Honey Lane, back from Cheapside, fronting E. onto the lane and the churchyard of All Hallows. The property is not numbered on the 1858 map. Thirteenth to sixteenth century In 1231 John de Pelham son of William de …