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A History of the County of Somerset
… Colleges The cathedral of Wells 39. THE CATHEDRAL OF WELLS When in 909 11 Edward the Elder founded the … precentor, chancellor and treasurer and perhaps of the sub-dean. He assigned the church and manor of Wedmore with …
A History of the County of Norfolk
… Colleges The Chapel-in-the-Fields, Norwich 111. THE COLLEGE OF THE CHAPEL-IN-THE-FIELDS, NORWICH. 1 At some date prior to … an important hospital and chapel, dedicated to the honour of the Blessed Virgin, was founded in the parish of St. … a collegiate church on a noble scale, consisting of a dean, chancellor, precentor, treasurer, and seven other …
A History of the County of London
… 38. THE COLLEGE IN THE GUILDHALL CHAPEL The new chapel of the Guildhall must at least have been begun in 1299, for Henry le Galeys then gave to the Fraternity of Pui 5 marks annual quit-rent to maintain a chaplain there. … the chantry of two chaplains founded by Gilbert de Bruera, dean of St. Paul's in 1348. Doc. of D. and C. of St. Paul's, …
A History of the County of Nottingham
… Colleges The collegiate church of Southwell 22. THE COLLEGIATE CHURCH OF SOUTHWELL The mediaeval diocese of York contained, in the … save that of Ripon, they possessed no head warden or dean. Even Ripon gave a recognized supremacy, though no …
A History of the County of Lincoln
… Colleges Thornton 110. THE COLLEGE OF THORNTON Thornton College was one of the short-lived foundations of King Henry VIII. A part of … and for the instruction of the young. There was to be a dean at the head of it, supported by four prebendaries, six …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Colleges Upholland COLLEGES 21. THE COLLEGE OF UPHOLLAND In 1310 Sir Robert de Holland obtained a licence in mortmain to endow a college of thirteen chaplains, one of whom bore the title of dean, in the chapel of St. Mary and Thomas the Martyr on his …
A History of the County of London
… Whittington's College 41. WHITTINGTON'S COLLEGE The church of St. Michael Paternoster Royal was the parish church of the wealthy Richard Whittington, and therefore had a … Both Gibson and one of the choristers said that Friar Forest died in a right quarrel. L. and P. Hen. VIII, xiii …
A History of the County of Dorset
… Colleges Wimborne Minster COLLEGE 32. WIMBORNE MINSTER One of the earliest religious foundations in this county was the nunnery built here at the beginning of the eighth century, converted on its restoration into a house of secular canons presided over by a dean, and subsequently known as the royal free chapel and …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Colleges Wolverhampton, St Peter 38. THE COLLEGE OF ST. PETER, WOLVERHAMPTON The foundation of the College of … Arley (now in Worcs.), 'Eswich' (perhaps Ashwood in Kinver Forest), 8 Bilston, Willenhall, Wednesfield, Pelsall, … likely that Wolverhampton enjoyed it, for Peter of Blois, dean by 1191 31 and probably appointed by Henry II whom he …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Collegiate churches Bosham 57. THE COLLEGE OF BOSHAM. 1 It has already been mentioned that when St. … a few companions settled at Bosham. 2 Here, where the lamp of Christianity was first lit in Sussex, there sprang up … there a college of six secular canons with prebends, their dean being the bishop of Exeter. This arrangement held good …