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A History of the County of Northampton
… belonged to the preceptory at Dingley. 10 Sewardsley nunnery, in Easton Neston, had a rent charge of 2 d. on a …
Old and New London
… of these nuns were carried off, besides lay servants. The nunnery, which spent 418 8s. 5d. a year, was surrendered by … abbess, to Henry VIII., in 1539. After the dissolution the nunnery became the residence of many great people; first of … father of Lady Jane Grey. In Stow's time, in place of the nunnery were built "divers fair and large storehouses for …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… in trustees as part of the endowment of the Bridgettine nunnery of Syon which he founded at Isleworth in that year. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… in 1414, the property of Fcamp was granted to the great nunnery of Syon. Cal. Doc. France, 38. Pat. 4 Ric. II, pt. i, …
A History of the County of Kent
… of this house, but it would seem to have been the earliest nunnery in England, with the possible exception of Barking. …
A History of the County of Dorset
… possessions of this cell to the abbess and convent of the nunnery of Syon, which he had founded in the manor of …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Priory, 1364), 98-99 (tithes of Buttsbury, Essex, to nunnery of Stratford-at-Bow, 1371), 103-4 (tithes of Harbury, …
A History of the County of Dorset
… Brit. (1668), lib. xxviii, cap. iv. Leland describes this nunnery as situated between the two rivers, the 'Frome' and …