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1st April 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… of the abbeys, there was a law made that where there was a monastery, there should be house kept and hospitality. A …
24th February 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… he were assured the Infanta should not enter into [a] monastery when he were betrothed, saying he were loath a monastery should rob him of his wife. The King would have no … Lord of B[ristol]. He might remember that he spoke of the monastery, and require [proxy] not to be delivered until he …
27th February 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… a wife, as a mistress. After this, carried the Prince to a monastery to labour his conversion. Desired him not to be an … be married or betrothed, she would put herself into the monastery of the Decallso. The Prince returned, the King like … him, and to prevent any abuse that, being betrothed, a monastery should not rob him of his wife. This letter in the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Some, however, have imagined them to be the ruins of a monastery, as the field is still called Monaster Field, and … derived from its ancient possessors, the abbots of the monastery of St. Peter here, which is supposed to have been … been frequently infested by pirates. Orcus erected the monastery, which occupied a large extent of ground, and, in …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… in the long dingle," from the erection of a Cistercian monastery in this sequestered narrow vale. The abbey, which … with the English army, set fire to the grange of the monastery, in revenge for the friar's treachery, and was … the village, is supposed, from its name, which signifies "monastery," to have been anciently a small ecclesiastical …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… present name from its vicinity to the ruins of an ancient monastery dependent on the abbey of Kelso. It is pleasantly … in the harbour of which the Romans moored their ships. A monastery appears to have been founded here at a very early … removed it to a place less exposed to danger. Of the monastery, which is supposed to have occupied a site near the …
A Dictionary of London
… I. 240, 391, E.E.T.S. ed.) After the dissolution of the monastery, the Inn known as Waltham or Abbot's Inn passed …