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Survey of London
… which Manning had visited and which supplied the first nuns at Notting Hill. 284 In 1970 the convent removed to … order, it was necessary to have two chapels, one for the nuns and the other for visitors. Clutton arranged the altars … hands during Mass thus being visible to both the nuns and the visitors. In 18712 John Francis Bentley produced …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of King Stephen, granting Becontree hundred (Essex) to the nuns of Barking, may have some relevance to this question. 30 The nuns were to hold the hundred 'as freely as the church of St. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… two townships. 95 The hamlet then consisted mainly of the nuns' grange and the cottages of their tenants. The north … the 17th century) is on the site of the manor-house of the nuns of Markyate and lies a little back from the main street … to a 17th-century and possibly older structure. The nuns are known to have leased their estate to a John Griffith …
Old and New London
… that Rose Herbert, a lady of noble family, and one of the nuns who at the Reformation were turned adrift upon the world …
Old and New London
… usually termed the Priory in Stratford, and that the nuns of that religious house probably taught the French … by William, Bishop of London, for a prioress and nine nuns; other writers, however, are of opinion that it was … and the 'Monasticon' reports it a religious house for nuns, founded by William, Bishop of London, that lived in the …
Old and New London
… Baroness de Montesquieu, as mentioned above. In 1871, some nuns of the Servite order settled down in a house in Hanger …
Old and New London
… the Gare, which Herbert, Abbot of Westminster, gave to the nuns of Kilburn. The spot was, according to John Timbs, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… time subsequent to the transference of the priory to the nuns of Syon in 1431. Apart from the tower and the modern …