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A New History of London
… extraparochial. Here Sir Walter Manny founded a Carthusian monastery, which, by the corruption of the French term … Charterhouse. On the dissolution of religious houses, this monastery came to the possession of Sir Thomas Audley, with …
Calendar of Border Papers
… acres severall grownd of Carram and parcell of the late monastery of Kirkeham in Yorkeshire, as the English affirme, …
Calendar of Border Papers
… was an ancient privilege granted by both princes to a monastery "at or neare the Ladie Kirke," now a good distance …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 1845. There is a place of worship for Independents A small monastery for five or six brethren was founded in 681, by …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 681 there was already, according to Bede, a small Celtic monastery at Bosham, with five or six brethren under the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… derived its name from St. Botolph, a Saxon, who founded a monastery here about the year 650; from which circumstance it … was called Botolph's Town, since contracted to Boston. The monastery, which was erected on the north side of the present …
A Dictionary of London
… was a hermit-abbot of the 7th century, and founded a monastery at Ikanho, a little village in Suffolk. But beyond …