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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Ecclesiastical b(1). Parish Church of SS. Margaret and Catherine stood m. W.S.W. of the modern church. The … a building 72 ft. by 21 ft. The old church was pulled down and the modern church erected on the present site in 1855. It contains much reused material in Barnack and limestone of the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries, …
A History of the County of Essex
… was cultivated by 4 servi with 2 ploughs in both 1066 and 1086, and the only recorded livestock in 1086 were 6 cattle and 1 horse; there was wood for 12 swine, and 3 a. of meadow. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Aldingbourne ALDINGBOURNE The parish contains 3,098 acres and measures 4 miles from north to south with an average … mile. It is mostly good agricultural land lying between 25 and 50 ft. above sea-level, but rising to 120 ft. on its northern edge. The church and village lie near the centre of the western boundary, here …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7
… parish of Aldsworth lies 6.5 km. south-east of Northleach and 5 km. north-east of Cirencester. In 1976 it covered an area of 1,356 ha. (3,350 a.) 1 and was irregular in shape with the boundaries marked by … Aldsworth manor court was recorded in the 1260s; 235 court rolls survive for 1351, 141213, 236 1542, 1609, 161718, 1622, …
A History of the County of Rutland
… chamberlain to the Conqueror, about the year 1050: 1 and the manor and church of Edith Weston were added to its endowments by … Maitland, Bracton's Note Bk. i, 72. See the Patent Rolls of Edw. II and Edw. III. Misc. Chan. Inq. file 172. …
A History of the County of Worcester
… stated; it was a cell subject to the abbey in France and endowed with the manor and church of Astley. Among the deeds of the abbey of St. … by Richard I. in January 1195-6 confirming to the abbot and convent all gifts already bestowed on them. 3 Among the …
A History of the County of Bedford
… manor of Leighton was granted by Henry II. to the abbess and convent of Fontevraud in 1164 1; and it is probable that a house was built there for a cell of … 1259 in defence of the rights of his church ( Ann. Mon. [Rolls Series], iii. 213). The property of the two priories …
A History of the County of Surrey
… Bec in the life of the Conqueror by Richard de Tonebridge, and the abbey placed some monks there in charge of their … estate was sometimes accounted as a distinct alien priory and sometimes as a member of Okeburn, Wilts, which was the … pensions from certain churches granted to the abbot and convent of Westminster. 3 The taxation roll of 1291 …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… inheritance of his mother, the notorious Countess Mabel, and its abbey, refounded in 1060 by his father, received … Ang].-Sax. Chron. sub anno; Hen. Huntingdon, Hist. Angl. (Rolls Ser.), 217. Some of the witnesses of the 1094 charters … of the fishery, then valued at £5 a year, on the plea that the priory had first received it in 1315 and …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Abbey of Lonlay in Normandy. It never became denizen and after the great war with France it was suppressed and its estates used for the endowment of the College of St. … x, 616. Bowet's Reg. (Somers. Rec. Soc. xiii), 30. Esch. Rolls, 49 Edw. III. p. 2 n. 4, pt. ii. R. of Shrewsbury's …