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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Berners Roding 6. BERNERS RODING. (E.b.) (O.S. 6 in. xlii. S.E.) Berners Roding is a small parish on the E. side of the River Roding, …
A History of the County of Sussex
… ( sic) de la Mote, Norman, and is worth 20, and the Abbess of Tarrant holds it of the queen's gift'. 12 And in 1278 it is again said that the manor belonged to the abbess 'by the grant of Queen Eleanor, mother of the present …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… the Crown to Thomas Temmes, 16 brother of Joan, the last abbess. 17 After his death in 1575 18 his son John, who had … Abath, who had married a sister of Joan Temmes, the last Abbess of Lacock. In 1592 Clement Abath assigned the lease to … sheep were evidently kept in some numbers, for in 1249 the Abbess of Lacock obtained a grant of pasture for 200 of her …