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A History of the County of Lincoln
… like Kirkstead and Louth Park, it was a daughter house of Fountains Abbey. 1 The chronicler of Fountains … 9and between 1321 and 1338 the Close Rolls contain a great many acknowledgements of debt to certain merchants of … a small sum of money lent him for the French war. 18 The great pestilence following immediately must have added to the …
A History of the County of Bedford
… which formed its first endowment) was the earliest house of the Cistercian order founded in Bedfordshire. Walter … with an abbot at their head to form a new and independent house, as St. Bernard did when he left Cteaux for Clairvaux, … its various chapels and altars. 24 Of the history of the house during the fifteenth century it is difficult to find …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… considered a filiation. 255 Besides the two vills of Great Stanney and Meurik Aston, 256 and a house in Chester, the founder gave them exemption from … the knights of St. John. 262 Roger's inherit ance of the great honours of Pontefract and Clitheroe, on the death in …
A History of the County of Bedford
… Yorkshire, and its first abbot, Alan, was a monk of that house. 2 To the manor of Woburn other gifts were soon added: … for Simon de Pateshull. 9 In 1234 the house was reduced to great poverty; Abbot Richard, who had evidently been a bad … During the three years that followed, the new laws and the great events of the time, political and religious, were much …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… of the archdeacon of Richmond, appropriated to the new house the church of St. Michael-on-Wyre, subject to the … county of Limerick. 252 The site of the short-lived house in Wyresdale is not known, but is supposed to be …
A History of the County of Worcester
… be styled the foundress, as having the patronage of this house by descent, or perhaps as restoring it after it might … reservation of a fit provision for the vicar. In 1535 the house had acquired several other small rents in Church Lench … 19 3 s. 11 d. 10 Only on three recorded occasions was the house involved in any struggle over its possessions and …
A History of the County of Warwick
… granted the nunnery the tithe of all the victuals for his house, namely bread, beer, fish, and flesh, and whatsoever … by the priors of Worcester or their commissaries to this house during the vacancy of the see in the fourteenth and … ordering the removal of certain seculars from their house within ten days, through whose presence they were being …
A History of the County of Worcester
… of the White Ladies of Aston, otherwise known as the house of St. Mary Magdalene, at Whistones, of the order of … in the same.' 13 The 10 annual grant was confirmed to the house by Henry VII. in 1486, and in 1488 the king ordered the … he bequeathed to the nuns of Whistones vestments for their great altar and 100 s. in money. 21 During the vacancy that …
A History of the County of Northampton
… NUNS 9. THE PRIORY OF CATESBY 1 Catesby Priory was a house of Cistercian nuns founded about the year 1175 by … as with lands in both these parishes. The property of the house was gradually increased by gifts from different members … who chronicles her death, describes her as 'a woman of great holiness, through whose distinguished merits miracles …