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A History of the County of Essex
… Panfield did not belong to the abbey before the Conquest, and so the date of the grant must be between 1066 and 1077. Waleran also granted land in Wood Street, London, and tithes in several places. Another benefactor to the abbey …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Ralph de Mortimer gave the churches of Hullavington and Surrendell to the Benedictine Abbey of St. Victor in Caux … who at the same time himself gave the manors of Clatford and Hullavington to the abbey. 1 By 1261 these estates had … licensed to pass beyond the seas with a yeoman, a horse, and money for his expenses on business touching himself and …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… partly by the gift of Queen Emma, the wife of Ethelred, and partly by the gift of Bishop Alwyn. A charter of William … 1067, in which he describes himself as Lord of Normandy and King of England by hereditary right, for the profit of his soul and at the urgent advice of his councillors, bestows on the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… was half way between the two. Though subject to St. Vigor and sending doubtless from the earliest times its apport or … an alien priory or cell which had its true conventual life and a certain degree of genuine, independence. The prior and convent of Sherborne, not the abbot and convent of St. …
A History of the County of Warwick
… de Wirche, in the year 1077, made large grants of land and tithes to establish at Monks Kirby (then called Kirkbury) … he gave the church of Kirkbury, which he had found ruinous and had rebuilt in honour of the Blessed Virgin and St. Denis, with all its ornaments, and the two priests …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Conquest the vill of Swavesey belonged to Edith the Fair, and, like so much of her property, it was given by William I … who granted to the Benedictine Abbey of SS. Sergius and Bacchus at Angers the church of Swavesey with all its … episcopal due, except sixpence at Easter for the chrism, and with it the tithes of his other villages, Barham, …
A History of the County of Northampton
… Alien houses The priories of Weedon Beck and Weedon Pinkney (Weedon Lois) 48. THE PRIORY OF WEEDON … intimately associated with the church of England, Lanfranc and St. Anselm (the second abbot), both in turn archbishops … this reign, the whole of Weedon was acquired by the abbot and monks of Bec-Hellouin, and hence became distinguished as …
A History of the County of Norfolk
… (Dallenges), with the consent of Avelina his wife and Peter his brother, for his weal and for the souls of his predecessors and successors. Two years later King Stephen addressed a …
A History of the County of Northampton
… In the reign of Henry II. the monks of Bernay held 2 hides and 2 small virgates at Everdon. 4 According to the Testa de … did suit twice a year in the hundred court of Fawsley and rendered 4 s. annually to the king. 5 At the time of the … that he had punished offenders against the assize of bread and beer by fining them 1 mark instead of imposing the legal …
A History of the County of Kent
… it as the place where there was formerly an abbey of nuns, and where St. Eanswith was buried, and adding that it had … was in the gift of the archbishop of Canterbury, and Lord Clinton was the patron. The parish church belonged to the … The priory was at first leased 20 to Edward, Lord Clinton; and on 9 January, 1539, it was granted to him in fee …