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A History of the County of Bedford
… IV. of Scotland (1153-65), we may conclude that this house, like so many others in Bedfordshire, was founded early … subscribed to the Royal Supremacy in 1535 24; and as the house had an income of only 109 8 s. 5 d. 25 clear, it was … has been already alluded to. Bishop Buckingham visited the house in 1387 27 and reminded the canons, according to the …
A History of the County of Northampton
… been obtained the previous year, 9 on the ground that the house was situated next to the highway used by clerks and … is little information as to the internal condition of this house. Bishop Burghersh in 1322 sent a mandate to the prior … that the prioress and convent of the neighbouring house of Catesby rightfully possessed the parish churches of …
A History of the County of Cumberland
… taking the religious habit and becoming an inmate of the house, endowed the institution with all his churches and … church. 20 In this way annually, on some appointed day in Whitsun week, the clergy paid the cathedraticum due … of the English arms against the Scots. 22 Another great day in the Christian year at Carlisle was Ash Wednesday, when …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Marshal, afterwards earl of Pembroke. 59 He endowed the house with the whole district of Cartmel, between Leven and … 61 John also giving Marshal permission to found a house of religion there and endow it with the entire fief. 62 … soul of the founder, and the rest distributed on Easter Day among divers boys and others. But for some reason not …
A History of the County of Northampton
… and Thomas Stone in charge as sub-prior. The income of the house at that time amounted to 85 13 s. 5 d., out of which …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… known whether he recovered anything at this time. 7 The house was reckoned from the first among royal foundations, … death in 1349, that the Great Pestilence visited this house as well as most of its neighbours during that year. … of Robert de Chetwode. 10 There is no mention of the house in the Taxatio. Priors of Chetwode Thomas of Hanworth, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… at his pleasure and acted merely as agent of the chief house, which by the middle of the fourteenth century put an …
A History of the County of Kent
… the patroness, and Stephen, arch bishop of Canterbury, the house was reduced to a priory, the rights of the patroness … there on Fridays, 17 but on 27 February, 1233, altered the day to Tuesday. 18 The abbot of Bayham charged the prior and … hands of the minister of Mottenden, and arranged that the house should not be indebted by this. The prior said that the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… manor of Ulverston under Furness Abbey, who granted to the house all Conishead, the church of Ulverston, and 40 acres in … gifts, and before his death in 1184 the promotion of the house to the dignity of a priory seems to have taken place. 8 … were naturally jealous of the rise of another religious house so close to their own and on land of which they were …
A History of the County of Norfolk
… hounds, attend banquets, chat with girls, and bring the house into contempt, causing it to be a scandal and a jest to … act with the prior in the control of the business of the house; he further ordered that if any of the canons wanted to … visitations, that they might see how far the state of the house had improved. On 2 November, 1492, Archdeacon Goldwell, …