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A History of the County of Oxford
… incredible, if we remember how slender the income of the house was. Brighter days came in 1382, when licence was given … gross income was 134, net 120; in 1535, at which date the house contained twelve monks in priests' orders and three … in Holy Scripture, and had repaired the damage done to the house by his negligent predecessor, and had brought the …
A History of the County of Cumberland
… united to the Cistercian Order. 1 As no chartulary of the house is known to exist, we are dependent for its history on … almost all we know of the early history of Calder with great fulness of detail. As Abbot Philip obtained his … the third house in the county which owes its origin to the great and famous family of Ranulf Meschin, the first Norman …
A History of the County of Chester
… bishop of Coventry, 3 who himself founded another Savignac house at Buildwas (Salop.) two years later. 4 Hugh Malbank gave for the construction of the house a wooded site on a mere at the extreme southern edge of … pensions were received from the churches of Ightfield, Great Bolas and Draycott and from Dieulacres abbey, Chester …
A History of the County of Stafford
… but fertile valley beside a tributary of the Dove, and the house was styled the abbey of the Vale of St. Mary of … Oaken (in Codsall) in the south of the county; a grove at Great Gate near Croxden and half a wood at Crakemarsh; land … about observance. Abbot Twyford (1294-7) was noted for his great devotion to the Trinity. 27 The abbots went …
A History of the County of Stafford
… of Poulton (in Pulford, Ches.); this was a daughter-house of Combermere (Ches.) and had been founded in the elder … Bradford (in Davenham), Churton (in Aldford), Hull (in Great Budworth), and Wettenhall (in Over), pasture at … at Middlewich and Nantwich) and in Lancashire (at Great Eccleston in St. Michael-on-Wyre, at Thornton in …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… advantage to secure fresh pastures; the wool trade was a great source of profit, and money in hand allowed them to … predecessors had granted to Flaxley. 13 As a Cistercian house, Flaxley was exempt from the visitation of the bishops … of the multifarious and immense debts of the house. 26 A great murrain among sheep began in 1276 and lasted for …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… also the rapid increase in the possessions of the house during the twelfth century. 4 Throughout the thirteenth … this feudal ascendancy. As a religious house it left no great monument of learning or piety, and trained no great man. Its documents are feudal deeds; its instruction …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… founded in 1246 by Richard, earl of Cornwall. 1 When in great peril in a storm at sea on his way home from Gascony to … found a new monastery. 4 Thus Hayles became the daughter house of Beaulieu, and in virtue of that tie was subject to … insisted that the alms which used to be given away at the great gate should not be withdrawn. 16 His other injunctions …
A History of the County of Cumberland
… and the Solway, was founded as an affiliation of the great Cistercian house of Melrose by Prince Henry, son of David, King of … and afterwards known as the county of Cumberland. In this great work he was assisted by Alan son of Waldeve, the lord …
A History of the County of Stafford
… The Cistercian abbey of St. Mary at Hulton, a daughter-house of Combermere Abbey in Cheshire, was founded by Henry … small. In 1351, 'out of compassion for the poverty of the house', the king remitted half of the 200-mark fine imposed … mine in Hulton, rents from a 'wychehouse' in Northwich (in Great Budworth, Ches.), and a rent from St. Leonard's Chapel, …