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A History of the County of York
… of land and a mill in ' Torp.' Nothing is known of the house at Hutton, where it cannot have long remained, and the … an alphabetical list of the property of the nuns, a great portion of which had been confirmed to them by Henry … was valued at only 5 6 s. 6 d., 10 by far the least of any house in Cleveland. In the Valor Ecclesiasticus the clear …
A History of the County of York
… to Esholt. By the gift of Margaret Clifford, widow, the house of Esholt became possessed of the church of Belton, in … wrote that he had not been certified of the state of the house, nor of the reason which made her desire to resign; he … to her profession and vowe made to all mighty God, to the great daunger of her sowle, and yll example of odre religious …
A History of the County of York
… without his special leave, as the number then in the house exceeded its means. In the following year 7 a custos of the house is mentioned, but no name given. In February 1275-6 8 … Richard, vicar of Wath, to the charge and custody of the house in spiritual and temporal affairs, and in 1283 10 …
A History of the County of York
… 1315 5 Archbishop Greenfield held a visitation of the house, and the short series of injunctions which he then … do whatever appeared to him to be for the benefit of the house. On 12 January 1388 7 the dean and chapter, sede … to the Cistercian order. Of the external affairs of the house almost the only item of interest that is known is a …
A History of the County of York
… reign of Henry I. 1 The founder gave the site on which the house was built, and the adjacent land, which is almost … Taxation of Pope Nicholas in 1291. The patronage of the house passed from the Stutevilles to the Wakes, lords of … 5 There is remarkably little known of the history of the house, and almost all that is recorded of it relates to …
A History of the County of York
… for that purpose, the receipts and expenditure of the house. No one was to be received as nun or sister of the house, or even to live there, without the archbishop's … vanish hereafter more than it had already done. One of the great troubles against which, from the first, the archbishops …
A History of the County of York
… formed a separate nunnery there. As a Cistercian house the convent of Sinningthwaite contested the right of … certain Margaret de la Batayle, who desired to enter their house as a nun. Rather more than two years later (12 April … no. i. Besides this member of the founder's family, his great-granddaughter Euphemia, afterwards became prioress. …
A History of the County of York
… Bishop of Durham. At first there is evidence that the house was in some form a double monastery of men and women. … obit, and by a codicil (1 August 1404) 10 signed in the great hall of the manor-house of Howden, in the presence of … them on account of any external occupation, unless the great need of the house demanded it, and as to that the …
A History of the County of York
… the cloister to the kitchen, or other places inside the house, were not in future to be permitted. The parlour was not to be used by the lay folk of the house. The prioress was to take care that the nuns did not … her, and immediately upon her deprivation sent her to the house of the nuns of Appleton, there to remain for a season. …
A History of the County of York
… as well as a statement of the then position of the house, and a further letter was sent by the archbishop to the … and nuns, telling them to render an account of the house to the commissioners, as it was when the prioress took … leave to elect a new prioress. 7 Another visitation of the house was held on Saturday, 28 September 1315, 8 as a result …