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A History of the County of Stafford

… of Mercia in the later 7th century. Bede describes how St. Chad, Bishop of the Mercians (669-72), established his … fate of Hanbury is recorded in the story that St. Werburgh's body remained incorrupt until the approach of the Danes in … best known medieval recluse connected with the county was Katherine of Ledbury, sometimes called 'Saint'; she was the …

RELIGIOUS HOUSES: Introduction

A History of the County of Huntingdon

… of the Benedictine order, besides Ramsey and its cell at St. Ives, were the priory of St. Neots and the small nunnery at Hinchinbrook. Of houses of other orders there were the Cistercian abbey at Sawtry St. Judith 1 and two priories of Austin canons, one at …

RELIGIOUS HOUSES: Introduction

A History of the County of Leicestershire

… had in the early 13th century a small property at Alderman's Haw, in Charnwood Forest, where there were usually three … still existed in 1278. 4 When, however, Alderman's Haw was inspected subsequently, probably in the late 14th … 25. See also ibid. 81. A. Hamilton Thompson, Abbey of St. Mary of the Meadows, Leicester, 99. Bermondsey retained …

RELIGIOUS HOUSES: Introduction

A History of the County of Kent

… county with two mediaeval sees and cathedrals, and in St. Augustine's at Canterbury it possessed an abbey of the first rank; but … century, was of the same order; and so were those of St. Sepulchre at Canterbury and Mailing, founded about the …

RELIGIOUS HOUSES: Introduction

A History of the County of Norfolk

… no great house of the black monks that could vie with Bury St. Edmunds. Cnut, in the very year that he became king of England, founded the abbey of St. Benet at Holme, amid the desolate swamps by the Norfolk … the advent of the Normans and the removal of the bishop's chair to Norwich, came the establishment of the cathedral …

Religious houses: Maison de Dieu