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A History of the County of Kent
… doubtful whether there was ever any regular settlement of monks at it. During the war with France the possessions of …
A History of the County of Dorset
… in the isle of Purbeck, was granted to the abbot and monks of Bec-Hellouin in Normandy by Robert Fitz Gerold, 91 a … Norman and early Plantagenet kings, 94 the claim of the monks to their estates here did not pass unchallenged. As a … Henry II, with a confirmation of the possessions of the monks by Henry I, including a grant of the manor of …
A History of the County of Dorset
… reign of Henry II, Robert count of Meulan confirmed to the monks of Praux all the land bestowed on them in Charlton by … 184 b. Pat. 6 Edw. II, pt. 1, m. 13. The following May the monks, on payment of a fine of 20 s., were pardoned their …
A History of the County of Norfolk
… The founder was Alan son of Flaald, who granted to the monks of St. Florent the church of Sporle ( Sparlaicum) with … church free from all claims, specially from that of the monks of Holy Trinity, assigning to them 205. a year from his …
A History of the County of Kent
… de Levelande claimed the chapel of Leaveland against the monks, but yielded when the abbots of Faversham and Boxley … belonging to the church of Throwley, as granted to the monks by Archbishop Theobald. 2 About the same time Henry de …
A History of the County of Norfolk
… Alien houses The priory of Toft Monks 121. THE PRIORY OF TOFT MONKS 1 Robert de Bellomonte, earl of Meulan in Normandy, and … in other counties, and various lands. 5 Two or three monks were placed here from the abbey at an early date, to …
A History of the County of Stafford
… be found in Domesday Book where it is recorded that 'the monks' were holding the Derbyshire manors of Doveridge and … de Ferrers. 3 It is equally possible, however, that 'the monks' were not the monks of Tutbury Priory but those of the abbey of St. …
A History of the County of Dorset
… not get a sufficient living for himself and his fellow monks, could neither pay the king the annual farm of 40 s. or …
A History of the County of Norfolk
… established here a small priory or cell of Benedictine monks. The grant of the manor and church and other privileges …
A History of the County of Lincoln
… founded before the Lindsey Survey c. 1115, for then the monks of Wenghale held 1 carucate and 4 bovates in Owersby of … a cell of the abbey of Ses in Normandy, for Benedictine monks, and the earliest appointment of a prior is dated 1223. …