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A History of the County of Warwick
… or Wolston, pertaining to the Benedictine abbey of St. Pierre-sur-Dive, in the diocese of Ses, was founded soon … he gave to God and St. Mary of St. Pierre-sur-Dive the church of Wolston in free alms for ever, together with all … of Wolston to have custody of his cell during the king's pleasure whilst the war should last. When Edward III came …
A History of the County of Warwick
… WAWEN Not long after the Conquest, Robert de Tony gave the church of Wootton Wawen with all its tithes and oblations, … grants were confirmed by Nicholas de Stafford, the founder's son, temp. Henry I, and by Robert de Stafford his grandson, … of Wootton, deposed that on Friday after the feast of St. Matthew, at the hour of evensong, he was fetched by …
A History of the County of Essex
… favourable wind. 1 Prayers were offered up at the abbey of St. Valery, and at last the monks brought out in solemn … and Twickenham in Middlesex, and the advowson of the church of Birchanger in Essex. Henry I granted a charter 3 … amounted at the time of the Taxation in 1291 to 49 7 s. 5 d. yearly, the greater part being fairly evenly …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Longville was founded by Walter Giffard as a cell to St. Faith's at Longueville near Rouen. The lands in Buckinghamshire … to 14 9 s. 5 d. 7 In 1279 the priory held Akeley and its church in frank-almoin, Great Horwood and its church, and the …
A History of the County of Northampton
… 48. THE PRIORY OF WEEDON BECK The celebrated abbey of St. Mary of BecHellouin, in the diocese of Rouen, was founded … of the eleventh century, intimately associated with the church of England, Lanfranc and St. Anselm (the second … justiciar found, however, that the heavy fine of 66 13 s. 4 d. had been already paid by the monks to Hugh de Nevill, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… gave the manor of Beckford-with-Ashton to the monastery of St. Barbe-en-Auge in Normandy, 1 which had been founded as a … In 1247 the abbot and convent of Cormeilles let the parish church of Beckford with the chapel of Aston at a rent of 60 … however, the custody was granted first to one of the king's clerks in 1379 for a rent of 100 marks a year, 11 and in …
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 this was done without the king's consent, the grant was disregarded, and the priory was …
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 … Giffards, after 1086 and probably before 1100, gave the church of Brimpsfield and a small grant of land to the abbot … of a ferm to the exchequer, but remained in the king's hands. 4 The manor was very small, and in an extent of 1293 …
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 and her sons'for the love of … again when the prior pleaded that he was born of the king's allegiance, and no alien. 9 There was at that time …
A History of the County of Lincoln
… priory of Cammeringham 122. THE PRIORY OF CAMMERINGHAM The church of Cammeringham was granted before 1126 to the abbey … in 1325. 4 Shortly afterwards it was taken into the king's hands. There was a prior who had charge of it at any rate … lands with the church of Cammeringham was in 1380 37 6 s. 9 d.; in 1387 it was given as 37 11 s. 5 d. 9 The only …