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A History of the County of Essex
… in the north-east corner of Aldham was held by St. John's abbey, Colchester, with Bulbecks in Copford, with which it …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… annexed to the manor of Offenham, and held by the abbey of Evesham: in the reign of Henry III. the abbot built … This place, called in King Ethelred's charter to Burton Abbey "Alfredingtune," and in Domesday book "Elfretune," is … reign. Fitz-Randulph, his son, the founder of Beauchief Abbey, in this county, and said to have been one of the …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7
… granted between 1002 and 1004 by Wulfric Spot to Burton Abbey (Staffs.) which exchanged it with King Ethelred for land nearer the abbey in 1008. 83 In 1086 an estate of 11 hides was held by Gloucester Abbey. 84 The abbey, which received other grants of land 85 …
A History of the County of Rutland
… Edith Weston ALIEN CELL 6. THE PRIORY OF EDITH WESTON The abbey of St. Georges de Boscherville for Benedictine monks …
A History of the County of Worcester
… cannot be definitely stated; it was a cell subject to the abbey in France and endowed with the manor and church of Astley. Among the deeds of the abbey of St. Taurinus is a charter granted by Richard I. in … Astley, sometime cell and parcel of the possessions of the abbey of St. Taurinus, in Normandy, with all its …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… stated that Hinckley church was given to the Benedictine Abbey of Lire by William filius Roberti Osberti; l the person … meant is probably William Fitz Osbern, founder of the Abbey of Lire (Eure). 2 It seems, however, that Hinckley … the church of Hinckley as having been given to the abbey by Robert, Earl of Leicester, and a charter of Robert …
A History of the County of Surrey
… of a part of this town with the great Benedictine abbey of Bec in Normandy. A certain part of Upper Tooting, in the parish of Streatham, was given to the abbey of Bec in the life of the Conqueror by Richard de Tonebridge, and the abbey placed some monks there in charge of their property …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… the reign of William Rufus, as a cell of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Martin at Sées in Normandy. Sées formed part of … of his mother, the notorious Countess Mabel, and its abbey, refounded in 1060 by his father, received liberal … and other portions of his English possessions to the abbey; two of these are ascribed to 1094, the third is …
A History of the County of Somerset
… was an alien priory, an offshoot of the Benedictine Abbey of Lonlay in Normandy. It never became denizen and … Lonlay three of the monks of Stoke to stay in the Norman abbey until an improvement in the condition of the priory … prior. Seven years afterwards Prior Peter 9 died and the abbey of Lonlay presented Giles Roussee a Frenchman. Bishop …