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A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… km. (2 miles) west of Castle Cary between the river Brue to the north and the Dry or Cary brook to the south. The course of the Brue is well-wooded and the … and in 1594 no book of common prayer. 31 The parish has a communion cup and cover, dated 1574, by Richard Orange of …
A History of the County of Worcester
… France. Four hides were held free of all custom according to the grant of the Conqueror when Ralph bestowed them on the … cannot be definitely stated; it was a cell subject to the abbey in France and endowed with the manor and church … selected for the office by the convent to the bishop for admission and institution, profession of obedience having …
A History of the County of Hertford
… The foundation of the Benedictine priory at Ware was due to Hugh de Grentemaisnil's gift of the church, tithe and 2 carucates of land here 1 to the abbey of St. Evroul in Normandy. 2 There is no … convent must have decreased through the restriction on the admission of aliens during the French wars. But in any case …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… of Adam, much increased his father's benefaction by giving to the monks of St. Mary of Andwell lands at Winchester, the … the gate of their house and a virgate of land pertaining to it, and a virgate of land at Mapledurwell. The churches of … with the latter. The absence of all reference to the admission of priors to Andwell throughout the episcopal act …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… The island of Hayling is stated by the Winchester Annals to have come into the possession of the cathedral church of … that any one infringing this gift may be removed from the communion of saints. 7 A charter of Henry I. between 1101 and 1106, addressed to Archbishop Anselm, William, Bishop of Winchester, Henry de …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… otherwise called West Sherborne, which pertained to the Benedictine abbey of St. Vigor, at Cerisy in Normandy, … His selection of this abbey for his gift was doubtless due to the fact that it lay only some twelve miles from his … Marshall of Bristol, a Benedictine monk. The form of admission recites that the priory of Sherborne, under the …
A History of the County of Warwick
… in the year 1077, made large grants of land and tithes to establish at Monks Kirby (then called Kirkbury) a cell or priory of Benedictine monks under obedience to the abbey of St. Nicholas at Angiers. For the founding of … the usual endorsement of the rule as to silence, the non-admission of women, the due observance of divine service, and …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… a second charter of a date between 1122 and 1147 refers to the grant of both Ogbourne St. George and Ogbourne St. … In 1206 Ranulf, Prior of Ogbourne, paid 100 for the right to hold in his custody the English lands and possessions of … in England from 1291 and received his last letters of admission for three years in 1305; 19 but William de Pont …
A History of the County of Northampton
… Roger de Thebovill gave a moiety of the manor of Weedon to the abbey of Bec, a gift which was confirmed amongst many … fine of 66 13 s. 4 d. had been already paid by the monks to Hugh de Nevill, from whom it was due to the Exchequer. 3 … of priors by the abbey of St. Lucien and their admission by the bishop of Lincoln; these, however, are of a …
A History of the County of Lincoln
… of a grant made by Ranulf de Meschines, earl of Chester, to the abbey of Fleury. The grant was made before 1129, 1 but … mention of a prior is in 1213. The priory does not seem to have done the parent abbey much credit. About 1238 Bishop … of the prior, who on a former visitation had refused admission to the commissioners. 3 The priory was in the …