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A History of the County of Sussex
… 1 The first mention of their convent is in 1253, when St. Richard, bishop of Chichester, left to them in his will …
A History of the County of Sussex
… they are not mentioned with the other Sussex friaries in St. Richard's will, and before 1283. In this latter year … mass at Steyning, although Archbishop Peckham had laid the church under an interdict. 2 Apparently at this time they had … but making another on their own ground from St. Andrew's church in the Pallant southwards to the city wall. 6 As their …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… friars continued to build their conventual buildings and church. In March 1297 the king gave 6 oaks from Clarendon … Wood (Clarendon Forest). 14 This timber was to build their church. By 1297 the building must have been virtually … lents to anyone who visited the church on the festival of St. Peter Martyr. 22 Edward II was devoted to the Dominicans. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… away 8 oaks given them by William Longespe to build their church, and Geoffrey Sturmy was ordered to allow the friars … 16 but the remains left in 1538 were wretched. The church measured 34 by 14 ft. and adjoining this was a … one friar there in 1538 in any sense follow the Rule of St. Dominic? When the house at Salisbury was dissolved in …
A History of the County of Sussex
… of the town that but few persons came to worship in the church, and the alms bestowed were small. Accordingly in 1339 … them an acre of land in the centre of the town near the church of St. Giles and allowed them to take over five messuages …
A History of the County of Sussex
… of a lane adjoining their premises. 2 In the same year St. Richard, bishop of Chichester, bequeathed to the Friars … the vacant site of the castle, 4 and here they built the church of which the graceful remains still stand, and in …
A History of the County of Sussex
… mentions the case of a thief who sought sanctuary in the church of St. Mary at Lewes and escaped thence to the house of the … 9 In 1524 John Peterson desired to be buried 'in the church of St. Frauncis of the Freres Minors of Lewes befor …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… their house. 4 By March two years later the walls of the church appear to be well advanced, for Geoffrey Sturmy was … could make shingles or tiles ( scindulas) to cover their church 6 and Michael de Columbar a further 30 tie-beams, also for the church. 7 The building went ahead, but in September 1233 the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 1253, in which year they are mentioned in the will of St. Richard. 1 Another early reference is in a plea of 1263 … numerous bequests of goods and money, the history of the church of St. Francis 5 of Winchelsea is practically a blank until …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… by Wimar the Steward. 1 In 1204 King John as patron of the church gave the perpetual vicarage to Henry the (Rural) Dean … to Baldwin the rector; 2 and in 1227 Henry III granted the church to the nuns of Sempringham. 3 Meanwhile Henry the Dean had begun to build a monastery in honour of St. Peter and St. Mary Magdalene in a field which had …