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The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Richard also claimed that in the same month at a muster in Cerne, Dorset, when the captain asked what arms he could … head and my spurrs taken off my heeles'. In the parish of Cerne in the same month Dawe described him as 'Asinum … in the case Devon Newnham Dorset Bridport Cattistock Cerne Chalmington Evershot Hampshire Winchester Topics of 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 …
A History of the County of London
… Exchequer Treasury of Receipt or Augmentation Office) Mon. Monastery, Monasticon Monm. Monmouth Mun. Muniments or …
A History of the County of Oxford
… xi, 1914) St. Frideswide's Cart. The Cartulary of the Monastery of St. Frideswide at Oxford, ed. S. R. Wigram …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… privilege of being allowed to bury in the church of their monastery on the island, about a mile distant from the shore. … near the village, which was probably subordinate to the monastery of Dunkeld, on the erection of which place into a … similar to those of the other canons. The ancient monastery, in 1273, became a priory of canons regular, and a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… town and its appendages. After the establishment of the monastery, Offa, King of Mercia, on a visit to Abingdon, was … successors, Egferth and Cenwulf, occasionally resided. The monastery continued to flourish till 871, when it was … grandson of Alfred, in 955 laid the first stone of a new monastery, which was completed after his death by the abbot …
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
… co. Kent.To be buried within the church of the monastery before the parish chapel. A bequest to the high … may counsel and advise'. A bequest 'to the convent of the monastery', where he trusted to be buried, to pray for his … Porch.) William Martyn, 'dwelling within the close of the monastery of the glorious apostle Seynt Barthilmewe'. 107 'To …