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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of 11,282. In the immediate vicinity of the town is Woburn Abbey, with its noble park, the seat of his grace. Itoccupies the site of a Cistercian abbey founded in 1145, by Hugh de Bolebec, and the revenue of … Earl of Bedford. In the middle of the last century the abbey was almost entirely rebuilt by Flitcroft, after which …
A History of the County of Essex
… was not valued in 1291 when it paid 4 s. to St. John's abbey, Colchester, and 2 s. 2 d. to St. Osyth's priory. 7 The …
A History of the County of Essex
… parish extending into Cockaynes in Elmstead. 24 St. John's abbey, Colchester, owned 120 a. called Withemorhad and … was granted by Eudes the sewer (d. 1120) to St. John's abbey. 36 In 1395 nineteen men paid avesage for pannage for …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… (b)xxix. N.E.) Wix is a parish 6 m. W.S.W. of Harwich. Wix Abbey is the principal monument. Ecclesiastical b(1). Parish … ConditionGood, mostly rebuilt. Secular b(2). Wix Abbey, house (Plate, p. 231), 60 yards S. of the church, is …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… family of Clare, who gave the manor and church to Tintern Abbey, together with several granges stretching across the … of worship for Baptists. An alien priory, a cell to the abbey of St. Peter super Divam, in Normandy, was founded here …
A History of the County of Oxford
… claimed small tithes and other dues from Godstow abbey and its servants, but had to acknowledge that the abbey itself was exempt, as were its servants, except for … a year, which seems to have been paid by the mill. 30 The abbey's rights over its servants may have led to one of its …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Ages, probably in the later 14th century, when Godstow abbey consolidated much of its demesne land in Wolvercote and … under Oxford. 96 Among the original endowments of Godstow abbey were 3 hams of meadow (Boieham, Henringesham and … horses and cattle, including 40 bullocks, but much of the abbey's meadow and pasture had been leased to tenants. The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… or earlier, of the demesne land and site of Godstow abbey as an extra-parochial area, altered the southern and … was composed of the site and demesne lands of Godstow abbey, a Benedictine nunnery founded c. 1133 on land given by … St. John, the lord of Wolvercote manor. 36 The site of the abbey, between streams of the Thames, was thus presumably …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Local government Local government In 1279 Godstow abbey had view of frankpledge in Wolvercote, and the royal … had entry into the manor only by the king's writ. The abbey also had rights of toll, pleas and perquisites of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… granted Wolvercote to Henry II who gave it to Godstow abbey. 63 The abbey held the manor until the Dissolution, and in 1541 it … abbess, the land called GODSTOW on which she had built her abbey, and soon afterwards he, Reynold of St. Valery, and the …