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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… A Benedictine priory was founded here as a cell to the abbey of Conches, in Normandy, to which abbey the parish church and some neighbouring lands had been …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… a motte and settlement remains, on the S. side of Berry Lane (SP 759562; Northamptonshire Archaeol 9 (1974), 111) are … claimed as part of the foundation endowment of Lavendon Abbey (Bucks) in a royal confirmation of 1227 ( Mon Angl 6, … 11558 (Knowles and Hadcock 1971, 190). However, since the abbey was not able to prove posession at law in 1231, doubt …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and Wootton. At Dunthrop and Showell, properties of Bruern abbey, Cistercian sheep farming seems to have been a cause, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… its early minster church succeeded in 1005 by Eynsham abbey, which remained a dominant influence in the west of the area throughout the Middle Ages. Godstow abbey was established in the south of the hundred in the 12th … some distinguished houses in the 18th century. Of Eynsham abbey only fragments survive but of Godstow abbey more was …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… from Marlborough to Salisbury and Andover (Hants) by a lane leading north-eastwards and by others leading to … parish which, because it was later an endowment of Battle abbey (Suss.), may also have been the king's in 1086. Neither … district in 1974. 29 CHURCH. A church belonging to the abbey of Mont St. Michel (Manche) stood at Wootton Rivers in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… seats of several noblemen, amongst which are, Welbeck Abbey the seat 'of the Duke of Portland; Clumber, the mansion …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Oxford
… an earlier establishment founded as a cell of Gloucester Abbey and from this the college took its name. The site was … the arch are three shields-of-arms (a) probably Winchcomb Abbey, (b) St. Alban's Abbey, and (c) Ramsey Abbey. The S. Range of Camerae forms …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… one Thomas Wattes and Margarett the wief of one George Lane being in the said howse they the said Thomas and … of good behaviour against the said Wattes and Margarett Lane and this etc [ben?] [p.t?] [super?] [summ...?] …