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Old and New London
… year, was surrendered by Dame Elizabeth Salvage, the last abbess, to Henry VIII., in 1539. After the dissolution the …
A History of the County of Bedford
… The manor of Leighton was granted by Henry II. to the abbess and convent of Fontevraud in 1164 1; and it is … a person of some importance; he was proctor general or the abbess of Fontevraud in England, 5 and had some journeys to … in 1316 the manor was stated to be the property of the abbess of Fontevraud, but 'now in the hand of the Princess …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… arbitrator and apparently decided in his favour, for the abbess and convent agreed to indemnify him and his successors … in 1430 to the use of the vicar of Lancaster, but the abbess and convent retained an honest chamber and stable as a … 16. Thomas Stanley, kt., recovered the patronage against Abbess Elizabeth on the ground that he and his father had …
A History of the County of Sussex
… V the estates of the bailiff of Atherington passed to the abbess of Syon. Bailiffs of Atherington William Olyver, …
A History of the County of Sussex
… of St. Peter of Almenesches, of which his daughter was abbess. Shortly after the death of his wife in 1082 he gave …
A History of the County of Norfolk
… by Henry II. In 1291 the taxation roll shows that the abbess of Caen held temporalities in Horstead to the annual …
A History of the County of Dorset
… 1414 Henry V made over the possessions of this cell to the abbess and convent of the nunnery of Syon, which he had …
A History of the County of Kent
… and others, who on 13 July, 1424, granted them to the abbess and convent of Syon in Middlesex, the grant being …
A History of the County of Dorset
… Henry III, directing the prior to cause the newly-elected abbess to have full seisin of all the possessions of the …