Search
A History of the County of Norfolk
… the time of William Rufus by Gerard de Gurney to the great abbey of Bec in Normandy. The small priory of Lessingham …
A History of the County of Kent
… Greenwich, and Woolwich of her inheritance to the abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul, Ghent, for the good .of the … prayer of his friend Dunstan, under whose governance the abbey was in the time of his brother King Eadwi, granted to the abbey Lewisham and its appurtenances of Greenwich, Woolwich, …
A History of the County of Dorset
… the manor which Richard de Redvers had given to the Norman abbey, said to be of his foundation. Henry I by charter … and children, and all his relations, he had granted to the abbey of Montebourg and Urse its abbot that the manor of … earl of Exeter, confirming the gifts of his father to the abbey, which was to be wholly quit of all dues to the donor …
A History of the County of Lincoln
… of Long Bennington was presented by Ralf de Fougres to the abbey of Savigny in 1163, 1 and the grant was confirmed by …
A History of the County of Oxford
… LOVELL The priory of Minster Lovell, attached to the abbey of Ivry in Normandy, was founded by Maud, widow of … with the consent of William her son. She gave to the abbey of Ivry the church of Minster Lovell, and William, … confirmed the gift and instituted a vicarage there; the abbey was to appoint the vicar, and they were to share …
A History of the County of Lincoln
… grant made by Ranulf de Meschines, earl of Chester, to the abbey of Fleury. The grant was made before 1129, 1 but it is … in 1213. The priory does not seem to have done the parent abbey much credit. About 1238 Bishop Grosteste wrote to the …
A History of the County of Kent
… of New Romney 73. THE PRIORY OF NEW ROMNEY The Cistercian Abbey of Pontigny in France owed its possessions at Romney to … of Canterbury. Thomas Becket was received at the abbey while in exile, 1 as was also Stephen Langton; and the latter in 1222 granted to the abbey 50 marks yearly from the church of Romney, 2 the grant …
A History of the County of Dorset
… the many charters granted in favour of this Norman abbey by the Norman and early Plantagenet kings, 94 the claim … described as a grange. The pancarta of this foreign abbey, granted by Henry VI (Pat. 12 Hen. VI, pt. 1, m. 13), … however, by the jurors of the hundred as belonging to the abbey of Bec-Hellouin, though they could not say by what …
A History of the County of Dorset
… of Meulan, in the reign of William Rufus granted to the abbey of St. Peter of Praux in Normandy, twin foundation to the other abbey of St. Leodegar or Leger on whom his father Roger had … into the king's hand on the pretext of the vacancy of the abbey, alleging that these were originally granted by Robert, …
A History of the County of Norfolk
… early in the twelfth century as a cell of the Benedictine abbey of St. Florent, Saumur, in the diocese of Angers, and … II, by bull of 18 February, 1123, confirmed to the abbey of St. Florent, among other English possessions, the …