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A History of the County of Somerset
… Colleges Stoke-under-Hamdon 38. COLLEGE OF STOKE-UNDER-HAMDON In 1303 Sir John Beauchamp obtained the royal licence to convert his free chapel of St. Nicholas at Stoke into a collegiate church of five priests, of whom one should be warden or provost. The …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Colleges Tamworth, St Edith 36. THE COLLEGE OF ST. EDITH, TAMWORTH It is not known when or by whom the college of priests at Tamworth was founded. Its dedication to St. … Edith, however, suggests that it was a royal foundation of the 10th century. 1 The St. Edith to whom it was dedicated …
A History of the County of Norfolk
… Colleges The college of Thompson 115. THE COLLEGE OF THOMPSON Towards the end of the fateful year, 1349, Sir Thomas de Shardelowe and Sir …
A History of the County of Nottingham
… Colleges The collegiate church of Southwell 22. THE COLLEGIATE CHURCH OF SOUTHWELL The mediaeval diocese of York contained, in the … and in the afternoon of each Sunday the rudiments of the Faith were to be expounded by one of the canons to an …
A History of the County of Nottingham
… Colleges Tuxford 23. THE COLLEGE OF TUXFORD John de Lungvillers in 1362 obtained the royal licence to found in the rectory house and church of Tuxford, of his patronage, a college of five chaplains, one of whom …
A History of the County of Dorset
… Colleges Wimborne Minster COLLEGE 32. WIMBORNE MINSTER One of the earliest religious foundations in this county was the nunnery built here at the beginning of the eighth century, converted on its restoration into a house of secular canons presided over by a dean, and subsequently …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Collegiate churches Bosham 57. THE COLLEGE OF BOSHAM. 1 It has already been mentioned that when St. … a few companions settled at Bosham. 2 Here, where the lamp of Christianity was first lit in Sussex, there sprang up during the succeeding centuries a college of secular priests richly endowed with broad lands, valued in …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Collegiate churches Hastings 58. THE COLLEGE OF HASTINGS 1 The College of St. Mary of the Castle of Hastings was founded by Robert, count of Eu, …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… churches Shottesbrook COLLEGIATE CHURCHES 31. THE COLLEGE OF SHOTTES-BROOK Sir William Trussell, of Kibblestone, Staffordshire, founded a college consisting of a warden and five other chaplains and two clerks at …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Collegiate churches Wallingford 32. THE COLLEGE OF WALLINGFORD The college and church or chapel of St. Nicholas was situated in the south-east corner of the outer bailey of the castle of Wallingford. Leland, in …