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A History of the County of Lancaster
… Wigan Lane House in Langtree in 1722, became a Benedictine monk in 1739, and finally Bishop of Rama (1756) and Vicar …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… the same time called the fifth part of a knight's fee. 9 Monk Bretton Priory. Sable in chief two covered cups, in base … of Rossendale, and Holcombe was given to the monks of Monk Bretton, near Pontefract. 13 In the time of Richard III … no. 852. Roger de Montbegon, who died in 1226, granted to Monk Bretton all his forest called Holcombe. The bounds …