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A History of the County of Sussex

… the greatest house of the order in Englandthe priory of St. Pancras at Lewes, whose possessions extended almost all … hospitals in this county the most important was that of St. Mary at Chichester, which still flourishes. In each of … of Novynton,' 'Noveton,' or 'Neweton,' who held 13 s. 8 d. of rent in 'New'' according to the Taxatio. 3 But …

Religious Houses: Introduction

A History of the County of Suffolk

… or Black monks are concerned, the great abbey of St. Edmunds was one of the most important and wealthy houses … its independence eventually failed. Rumburgh was a cell of St. Mary's, York; its priors, though removable at the pleasure of the …

RELIGIOUS HOUSES: Introduction

A History of the County of Hertford

… impression is that of the overwhelming pre-eminence of St. Albans Abbey. The abbey indeed had more than a great … houses: Hertford and Redbourn Priories were cells of St. Albans, the second practically an annex of the abbey; the … origin. All were more or less small and poor, but Sopwell's connexion with St. Albans saved it no doubt from pecuniary …

RELIGIOUS HOUSES: Introduction

A History of the County of Lincoln

… existence. 2 Leland says 'where the Deane of Lyncolne's howse is in the Minstar Close of Lyncolne and thereabout … Ric. II, pt. 1, m. 20, which is the other reference given. St. Bartholomew's Priory, if not the same as the hospital of St. Bartholomew without Lincoln, cannot at present be traced. …

Religious houses: Introduction

A History of the County of Essex

… eventually joined the Benedictine order. The influence of St. Benedict and his famous rule, established in 529, was so … halves respectively of the twelfth century. The abbey of St. John at Colchester was founded in 1096, and the priory of … the Benedictine had done in the case of monks. St. Botolph's Priory at Colchester, founded under William II, claimed to …

Religious houses: Introduction

A History of the County of Northampton

… representative of the great order of Black Monks of St. Benedict; to it pertained a neighbouring cell at Oxney, … to the abbey of Bernay, of Weedon Pinkney to the abbey of St. Lucian, and of Weedon Beck to the abbey of Bec. The Order … control substituted. The story, however, of St. Andrew's will be found to differ materially from that of Daventry; …

RELIGIOUS HOUSES: Introduction

A History of the County of Gloucester

… founded about 804, and became a cell of the monastery of St. Denis about 1059. The priories of Newent, Horsley, and … in the reign of William the Conqueror. The priory of St. James, Bristol, was founded about 1137, Stanley St. … by Gloucester had its origin in 1136; St. Augustine's, Bristol, in 1148. The secular canons of St. Oswald's …

Religious houses: Introduction

A History of the County of Dorset

… Blackmoor, although stated to have been under the rule of St. Augustine, does not seem to have belonged to the Austin … estates. These instances were at Frampton (the abbey of St. Stephen of Caen), Loders (St. Mary of Montebourg), … never more than a grange or estate managed by the abbey's chief English cell, the priory of Ogbourne. In the same way …

Religious houses: Introduction

A History of the County of Oxford

… Premonstratensian houses, and, if we omit the canons of St. George's in the castle of Oxford, no collegiate church, except All … and from 1073 to 1149 there existed the secular canons of St. George's, Oxford. There were also establishments of the …

Religious houses: Introduction

A History of the County of Bedford

… founded the priory of Dunstable about 1132; the canons of St. Paul's, Bedford, were transferred to Newnham and brought under the … we know by the testimony of Cassian and later of St. Benedict 3 that men were always discouraged from …