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A History of the County of Lincoln
… during the reign of John to the Benedictine priory of St. Fromund, Normandy; they had previously belonged to the … wars with France it became so unprofitable to the prior of St. Fromund that he granted it to the London Charterhouse. As …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of Brimpsfield was a cell of the Benedictine monastery of St. Wandrille in Normandy. 1 Although no exact information … and a small grant of land to the abbot and convent of St. Wandrille. 2 The abbot and convent of St. Wandrille sent one of their monks to act as their bailiff …
A History of the County of Lincoln
… Adeliza herself placed the deed of gift on the altar of St. Saviour in the conventual church, on behalf of herself …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Oxford some thirty years earlier: the same patron saint, St. George, was chosen, 4 and the method of endowment was the … away for small annual sums, and produced but little. Thus St. Frideswide's, Oxford, paid 2 s. for the tithe at … of himself and his house, and for the glory of God and St. George the Martyr, granted that he should be quit of that …
A History of the County of Lincoln
… 1082 by William the Conqueror to the abbot and convent of St. Carileph, Le Mans, at the request of the bishop of … the cell had become so far unprofitable to the abbey of St. Carileph that licence was sought from the king to sell it …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Deerhurst. 3 The monastery was rebuilt in or before 970. St. Alphege in his youth was a monk of the house, and was … 5 and that under him the strict observance of the rule of St. Benedict was introduced into the monastery. Fervour and … of the lands of Deerhurst to the Benedictine monastery of St. Denis, reserving the remainder for his new foundation of …
A History of the County of Northampton
… the manor of Everdon was bestowed on the abbey of St. Mary of Bernay (Eure, Normandy) in the diocese of …
A History of the County of Kent
… here for his daughter Eanswith a monastery dedicated to St. Peter. Nothing is known of the history of this house, but … place where there was formerly an abbey of nuns, and where St. Eanswith was buried, and adding that it had been … destroyed by the Danes. 1 The account 2 of the life of St. Eanswith says that the site of the church was swallowed …
A History of the County of Dorset
… the manor of Frampton in Dorset was held by the church of St. Stephen, the Norman abbey of Caen founded by William the … 1172-84, confirming to the abbot and convent of St. Stephen's all their possessions in the province of … first at Michaelmas, 1204, and the second at the Feast of St. Hilary following, and afterwards 80 yearly at the usual …
A History of the County of Lincoln
… were sold by the abbot of Aunay in 1393 to the priory of St. Anne at Coventry. 3 Round, Cal. of Doc. France, i, 185. …