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A History of the County of Gloucester
… of cakes, wines and a pittance of fruit on the abbot's anniversary. 16 In 1535 the clear yearly value of the cell … to appear before the chancellor and council of the Court of Augmentations on 16 June, 1536, upon pain of a fine … was drawn up at a rent of 36 13 s. 4 d., and a payment of king's tenths of 8 2 s. 4 d. 22 On the surrender of the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… the royal hands in or before 1323 by reason of the prior's default; l48 the nature of his offence is not further … as 'aged and impotent, desiring some living of the King's alms.' The list of rooms shows that the rule was laxly … that the money had been wanted to pay the tenth and the king's visitors. Two parcel gilt salts had disappeared …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Berks., was conferred on the abbey, which the abbot's successor transferred to the monks of Wallingford. 277 … one at the Bodleian, temp. Henry I (1100-35), whereby that king grants to the monks of Holy Trinity, Wallingford, the … larderer, with small benefits as they had in the days of King William his brother, and as on the day when Geoffrey the …
A History of the County of Cumberland
… of Wetheral and Warwick, to Stephen, abbot of St. Mary's, York, in perpetual alms, and when the priory was brought … to Appleby, and also the privilege of feeding swine in the king's forest, free of pannage. Other privileges were … the opposition of Bishop Walter. 11 But the papal court had not always its own way. In 1309 Clement V. provided …
A History of the County of Essex
… Stallington, in Lindsey, the son and daughter of a heathen king named Offa. Erkenwald was given to Christianity at the … Ethelburga became a nun to avoid marriage with Eadwine, king of Northumbria, then a pagan (d. 633); and as there was … canons being eventually successful. The date of Ethelburga's death is not known, but it was presumably later, as she was …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… to Ely that the temporalities of the nuns came into the king's hand during a vacancy in the see. 5 When this happened, the … in possession of the monastery, to hold it for the king; but that there were fourteen families in the town …
A History of the County of Warwick
… John Ferrers of Tamworth Castle. 1 According to this story King Egbert had an only son, Arnulph, who was a leper. … on the bank of the Anker, of which house the king's daughter Edith shortly became abbess. According to Matthew … paying 20 s. 8 d. rents; pleas and perquisites of the court of Polesworth half a mark, and two views of frankpledge …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… I., being married at Martinmas, 1100. 19 Mary, daughter of King Stephen, became abbess here about 1160, and it was her … eat or drink in any house in Romsey under pain of a year's suspension; and the forbidding of the entry of any male, … Ayreminn, they being obliged to grant a pension to one of king's clerks on account of the new creation of an abbess. 3 …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… of Wherwell was founded about 986 by Elfrida, the widow of King Edgar, in expiation for her part in the murders of her … of Henry V. are copied at the end. In the year of Elfrida's death, and apparently immediately after its occurrence, … to have the spirit of a man rather than a woman. The court of the abbey manor, owing to the useless mass of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… his father-in-law, who was killed in battle against the King of Mercia. 2 Weohstan died in 800 and in 830 his widow, … It is clear that for many years after her death St. Edith's shrine attracted pilgrims to Wilton, thus contributing to … food. The abbess's house is said to have stood near to her court of the Belhouse. 105 The apparent poverty of Wilton in …