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A History of the County of Kent
… September, 1289, but it was to be one day earlier. 11 The house is not mentioned in the Taxation of 1291. The bishop …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… in the episcopal registers to the poverty of this house, and in 1277 the prioress seems to have been thankful … from which we may surely infer that he had visited the house and was satisfied with its condition in other respects. … of the faithful observance of the Benedictine rule in this house. During the episcopate of Bishop Alnwick a nun of some …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Wells, under the year 1218, but it does not imply that the house was then newly founded. 3 It may indeed have come into … in consideration of his improvement of the estate of their house, 7 but they were evidently still barely … against the king's peace, to the grave damage of her house: and on a second occasion had taken away books, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… their dissolution. In the early years of Henry III the house received several marks of royal favour. The Close Rolls … who aided the work. 13 From this date the history of the house is almost a blank; it is not mentioned in the papal … a clerk of Oxford left them a small legacy to repair the house. 15 When a visitation was held in 1517 by Edmund Horde, …
A History of the County of Bedford
… to it afterwards another portion at a rent of 6 s. As the house was built under the patronage of Geoffrey, sixteenth … the foundation. 7 The later story says that Christine had great influence with the abbot, and often gave him good … religious: they were perhaps boarders taken in during the great necessity of the house. At about the same time the …
A History of the County of Kent
… who died in 1286, did much to relieve the poverty of the house, which had fallen into ruin, and was buried before the … them with food and drink and other necessaries, but the house was served by an outsider, a woman from the town; there … cattle belonging to it, with a list of the servants of the house and their wages; and eight nuns are mentioned besides …
A History of the County of Northampton
… proctor, sent the prioress with the charters of their house to lay the matter before the archbishop of Canterbury … Gravesend sanctioned the personal visitation of this house once a year by the abbot and two or three of the monks … the spiritual disposition of all things concerning their house. 15 Abbot Adam of Boothby visited the priory in the …
A History of the County of Kent
… CANTERBURY In the chronicle of William Thorne this house is said to have been founded by Anselm, archbishop of … nuns were to be put in solitary confinement in a dark house under the dormitory, where no secular was ever to enter, whether a nun be there or not. The new house where religious and even secular men used to come for …
A History of the County of Lincoln
… Houses of Benedictine nuns The priory of Stainfield HOUSE OF BENEDICTINE NUNS 16. THE PRIORY OF STAINFIELD 1 The … from Walter de Rochford, son-in-law of a benefactor of the house. 3 About 1319 the nuns, being poor, tried to escape a … breach of rule to take any food or drink, or to break the great silence in any way after compline; and the nuns. here …
A History of the County of Oxford
… son Thomas was considered to have been the founder of the house; 2 and Dugdale prints a deed by which the nuns … and at Goring, we have another instance of fluctuations as great. The numbers there fell from 36 to 7, at Studley from … sent injunctions to the nuns, that as the monastery was in great debt and the buildings out of repair, a more economical …