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A History of the County of Essex
… one. The church was dedicated to St. Mary, and the nuns' graveyard lay west of it. The abbey was probably … or contentious. He was to have no familiarity with the nuns without permission from the abbess or her deputy; at the … or houses outside its precincts. In 1457 the prioress and nuns protested against this decision, but evidently without …
A History of the County of Essex
… became one of the greatest English houses of Benedictine nuns. 35 It was situated at the head of Barking Creek, and …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… they should pay yearly and for ever, to the prioress and nuns of the priory of St. Sepulchre, near Canterbury, eight …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… by archbishop Hubert, on account of the ill lives of the nuns. 24 There is a treatise on Living Piously, written by …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… of the archbishops, for the use of their table. To the nuns of Davington, who, as Harps field thinks, were French …
Survey of London
… to the invariable statement of historians, was for nuns of the Benedictine Order. No authority is quoted for the … and temporal possessions belonging to the Priory of Nuns of Hallewell near London, 34 etc."; and the other, which … of property at Alsewick to Agnes, the prioress, and the nuns of Haliwell. A reference to Agnes also occurs in a grant …
Survey of London
… property comprised the possessions of the priory of the nuns of Stratford at Bow on Bankside, including the Unicorn …
A History of the County of Worcester
… of Boulogne, made about 1170, which gave the church to the nuns of Fontevrault settled at Westwood near Droitwich. 58 … a charter whereby Nicholas son of William granted to the nuns of Westwood all his land of 'Wichio,' within and without the town, which he had by grant of the nuns, de feudo de Bampton. 61 The church remained appropriate …