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A History of the County of Northampton
… Alien houses The priory of Everdon ALIEN HOUSES 47. THE PRIORY OF EVERDON … in the diocese of Lisieux, which had been founded about 1025 by Judith, wife of Richard, fourth duke of Normandy. Henry II., by charter of 1156-7, granted to the monks there serving God all that they had held in the …
A History of the County of Dorset
… Alien houses The priory of Frampton ALIEN HOUSES 33. THE PRIORY OF … the whole being worth 40 s. 2 Henry II, confirming to the monks of Caen the gifts of his predecessors, … and afterwards 80 yearly at the usual four terms, in return for which he was allowed the custody of the lands of …
A History of the County of Lincoln
… Alien houses The priory of Great Limber 119. THE PRIORY OF GREAT LIMBER … de Humet, constable of Normandy, and Agnes his wife, to the Cistercian abbey of Aunay in Normandy, and their charter was confirmed by Henry II about 1157. 1 A little later Bertram de Verdun renewed the …
A History of the County of Lincoln
… Alien houses The priory of Haugham 115. THE PRIORY OF HAUGHAM The priory of Haugham … earl of Chester, towards the end of the eleventh century, to the Benedictine abbot and convent of St. Severus in the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Alien houses The priory of Lapley 40. THE PRIORY OF LAPLEY In 1061 … he realized that he was dying Burchard expressed a wish to be buried in the Benedictine abbey of St. Remy at Rheims … 7 d., this being the value placed on the property by the commissioners; knights' fees and advowsons were reserved to …
A History of the County of Kent
… Alien houses The priory of Lewisham 71. THE PRIORY OF LEWISHAM Elstrudis, … Lewisham, Greenwich, and Woolwich of her inheritance to the abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul, Ghent, for the good … the alien priories were definitely confiscated by Act of Parliament; and Henry V in that year granted Lewisham to the …
A History of the County of Dorset
… Alien houses The priory of Loders 34. THE PRIORY OF LODERS This alien priory, cell to St. Mary of Montebourg, was founded about the beginning of the twelfth century in connexion with …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Alien houses The priory of Minster Lovell 50. THE PRIORY OF MINSTER LOVELL The priory of Minster Lovell, attached to the abbey of Ivry in Normandy, was founded by Maud, widow … s. 4 d. from the church of Minster, and in the latter year about 4 from land. It is not easy to understand how a priory …
A History of the County of Lincoln
… Alien houses The priory of Minting 113. THE PRIORY OF MINTING The priory … of a grant made by Ranulf de Meschines, earl of Chester, to the abbey of Fleury. The grant was made before 1129, 1 but … who on a former visitation had refused admission to the commissioners. 3 The priory was in the king's hands in 1337, …
A History of the County of Kent
… Alien houses The priory of New Romney 73. THE PRIORY OF NEW ROMNEY The … Abbey of Pontigny in France owed its possessions at Romney to its connexion with the archbishops of Canterbury. Thomas … possessions of aliens were finally confiscated by Act of Parliament in the reign of Henry V; and Henry VI on 20 May, …