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A History of the County of Chester
… to Norton from Leicester Abbey was walled up as an anchorite in the churchyard of St. John's, Chester, and in …
A History of the County of Suffolk
… abbot, relinquishing his office by choice, was consecrated anchorite at the chapel of St. Mary in the old monastery near …
A History of the County of Oxford
… for the burial of such a saint as Birinus. Moreover an anchorite of Holywell near Oxford heard a voice saying: 'It …
A History of the County of Warwick
… by Bishop Stretton in January, 1360, to inclose an anchorite, Brother Roger de Henorebarwe, who desired to …
A History of the County of York
… anchor-hold, there should spring up an abbey, of which the anchorite should be the first abbot.' 2 The date of the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
A History of the County of Suffolk
… to the friars of Orford, and half a bushel of wheat to the anchorite of Orford. There were also various donations of …
A History of the County of Hertford
… monks of Stoke the hermitage of Standon which William the Anchorite built, that they might celebrate service there to … saving, however, the right, peace and quiet of William the Anchorite. 2 It was apparently the earl's intention to … king presented owing to the minority of the patron. The anchorite William had successors: Richard le Hermit 9 of …
A History of the County of Chester
… Robert of Marketon who had unwisely vowed to become an anchorite. Within the monastery no fashionable clothes were …
A History of the County of Lincoln
… Later scholarship has, however, rejected it. 2 In 714 an anchorite of widespread fame died at Crowland. Guthlac was …