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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Ralph de Mortimer gave the churches of Hullavington and Surrendell to the Benedictine Abbey of St. Victor in Caux … who at the same time himself gave the manors of Clatford and Hullavington to the abbey. 1 By 1261 these estates had … licensed to pass beyond the seas with a yeoman, a horse, and money for his expenses on business touching himself and …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… the junction of the Hamble river with Southampton Water, and was hence usually termed ' Hamble-en-le-rys' or ' … of Tiron dwelling at St. Andrew's, Hamble, of the lands and meadows that she held at 'Auditon.' The charter recites … she made this gift in chapter of the monks of St. Andrew and placed it on the altar in the presence of Prior Geoffrey. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… OF LINTON In 1086 Count Alan of Brittany held Linton 1 and an estate in Isleham. 2 According to the jurors in the … Great Isleham a messuage with the chapel of St. Margaret and 100 acres of land 'by gift of an ancestor of Alan son of Ferlant'; and also the tithes of the manors of Isleham and of the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… of Poling was probably added shortly after this date, and in 1178 Pope Alexander III confirmed to the nuns of … rights in the churches of Lyminster, Climping, Poling, Ford, and Rustington, as well as in the manors of Climping, Rustington, Ford, Preston, and Poling. Some twenty years later Seffrid …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… was half way between the two. Though subject to St. Vigor and sending doubtless from the earliest times its apport or … an alien priory or cell which had its true conventual life and a certain degree of genuine, independence. The prior and convent of Sherborne, not the abbot and convent of St. …
A History of the County of Suffolk
… Withgar, who lived in the reigns of Canute, Hardecanute, and Edward the Confessor, founded the church or chapel of St. John Baptist in the castle of Clare, and therein placed seven secular canons. This church, with … monastery of Bec in Normandy, of which it became a cell, and thus remained until the year 1124, when Gilbert's son …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Conquest the vill of Swavesey belonged to Edith the Fair, and, like so much of her property, it was given by William I … who granted to the Benedictine Abbey of SS. Sergius and Bacchus at Angers the church of Swavesey with all its … episcopal due, except sixpence at Easter for the chrism, and with it the tithes of his other villages, Barham, …
A History of the County of Warwick
… of Praux are said to have built a cell or priory here, and sent over some of their number to occupy it. Their … chartulary of Praux contains a notification between 1123 and 1146 from the chapter of the collegiate church of St. Mary, Warwick, addressed to abbot Ricard and the convent of Praux, allowing the grant by their brother …
A History of the County of Sussex
… the abbey founded by his father at Grestein in Normandy, and not the least important of his donations was the grant of the manors of Wilmington and Frog Firle in Alfriston, which, with two hides in … Domesday Survey. To this he added a burgage in Pevensey and forest rights in Ashdown Forest; his son William gave …
A History of the County of Sussex
… of Marmoutier, eight burgages in Pevensey worth 5 s. 6 d., and probably also the manor of Withyham and the hamlet of Blackham in that parish. 1 These two … but were restored to the monks about 1095, 2 and further confirmed to them by Robert's son William, as …