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A History of the County of Hertford

… in Saxon days 9; a recluse called Roger 10 and Sigar, a hermit of Northaw, who lived in Abbot Geoffrey's time, 11 … Ibid. 388-9. V.C.H. Herts. ii, 403 n. In 1530 there was a hermit or anchorite in the chapel of St. Mary Magdalene …

RELIGIOUS HOUSES: Introduction

A History of the County of Lincoln

RELIGIOUS HOUSES: Introduction

A History of the County of Wiltshire

… ( hospicium) was enclosed with a stone wall. 20 In 1296 a hermit in Bentley Wood (Clarendon Forest) received 21 s. and 2 qrs. of wheat. 21 There was still a hermit there in 1331. He was one John de Warwick, who was … acres at Codford St. Mary to Henry de Mareys, chaplain and hermit, who was to build on this land a house and a chapel in …

RELIGIOUS HOUSES: Introduction

A History of the County of Sussex

… numerous in this county and demand a passing note. The 'hermit' often had definite duties, such as the care of a … site of whose hermitage is still known in Westbourne. This hermit by his will, made in 1527, left his house and the … Confessor Saint Antony,' to be a dwelling for a professed hermit, who was to see to the 'maynteynence of the breggys …

Religious houses: Introduction

A History of the County of Chester

… said by Gervase of Canterbury to have lived for years as a hermit in the Isle of Chester and given his name to … of Wales another story that the Emperor Henry V died as a hermit near Chester and adds that Henry lived ten years at … the hermitage of the Rood. 23 In 1367 Simon de Goddesmere, hermit, was licensed to have an oratory in his hermitage at …

Religious houses: Introduction

A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely

… for the chapel of Whittlesford Bridge and John Lucas, hermit there, 9 which in fact refers to the chapel of St. … tooke the profitts thereof.' 11 William Popeley had been hermit there in 1527 and was bound to make offerings at the … 17 An earlier instance is that of Brother William, hermit of Gamlingay, who in 1271 had protection for four …

Religious Houses: Introduction

A History of the County of Durham

Religious houses: Introduction

A History of the County of Shropshire

… built there by 1356, when land nearby was given to the hermit to endow a daily chantry service. 17 Reference is made to a hermit of Spellcross between 1381 and 1526. 18 and the site … a time by the former Dominican friar John Grace. 23 The hermit of the Wrekin also lived within a royal forest. In …

RELIGIOUS HOUSES: Introduction

A History of the County of Lancaster

… Hugh Garth, the founder of Cockersand Abbey, was a hermit. 3 Kersal Cell grew out of a hermitage. William the Hermit, of Heaton, near Lancaster, is mentioned about 1280. 4 In 1366 John 'dictus le Hermit de Singleton' was licensed to have Divine service in …

Religious houses: Introduction

A History of the County of Stafford

… the priory itself) and land there cultivated by Walter the hermit. 15 Also in the later 12th century there was a hermitage at Ranton, a hermit living in the wood of Sutton (in Forton), and two … whom Henry, Lord Scrope, left money in 1415. 22 In 1424 a hermit called John Grace was preaching in the south of the …