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A History of the County of London
… which is not open to suspicion, there is no mention of the monastery in Bede nor yet in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle before … genuine. 9 This would seem to point to the existence of a monastery here before the year 785—the date of the … Offa. 12 At the same time it is highly probable that the monastery was restored by Edgar and Dunstan. It was certainly …
A History of the County of London
… of £10 a year should be paid to her from the goods of the monastery. Constance, the prioress, seems to have resented …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… and Criswan, of which 10 were in Bentley, to found a monastery. 9 It is unknown to what monastery reference is made, and none is known to have …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… influence of Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury. To this monastery William Rufus and some of his successors were great … site than, as it was in reality, only an appendage to the monastery. This establishment increased so much in wealth and … to form Abbeystreet. Bermondsey owes its origin to the monastery, in the vicinity of which a gradual accumulation of …
A History of the County of Hertford
… tithes and lands which Godfrey the chaplain held, to the monastery of St. Mary of Grestein in Normandy, 12 and it was … herbage was also common to the rector or head of Ashridge monastery and all his tenants, as well in the time of pannage as at other times, and the rector of Ashridge monastery also had housebote and haybote from the same wood. …
Old and New London
… of the Queen of Henry VII. and her ChildrenGrant of the Monastery to Sir Robert SouthwellIts Sale to Sir Thomas … 1082 a wealthy citizen of London, Aylwin Childe, founded a monastery at Bermondsey, which some of the ecclesiastics from the Monastery of La Charit, on the Loire, made their new home in …
Old and New London
… of Battle, an important personage as the superior of the monastery erected on the spot where the fate of Saxon England …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of York, rebuilt the church, and founded in the choir a monastery of Black monks, dedicated to St. John the Baptist; … the title of St. John of Beverley. The foundation of the monastery naturally led to the erection of buildings in the … victorious, bestowed many privileges upon the town and monastery. He founded a college for secular canons, which, at …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… from which copper pipes led to neighbouring villages and a monastery. 80 The building may have been erected by the …