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A History of the County of Hampshire
… Alien houses Priory of St Helen ALIEN HOUSES 34. THE PRIORY OF ST. HELEN The small Cluniac priory of St. Helen, situate on … house, in addition to the prior. The prior left the island and the monk joined the Carisbrooke community. 1 Brother …
A History of the County of Suffolk
… Withgar, who lived in the reigns of Canute, Hardecanute, and Edward the Confessor, founded the church or chapel of St. John Baptist in the castle of Clare, and therein placed … at Stoke, and a yearly fair of three days at the feast of St. John Baptist. The various charters of Gilbert, earl of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Conquest the vill of Swavesey belonged to Edith the Fair, and, like so much of her property, it was given by William I … by a compromise (confirmed between 1150 and 1153 by St. Bernard as Abbot of Clairvaux) which directed that the … in the diocese of Rodez of which house the priory of St. Faith at Horsham in the diocese of Norwich was a cell, and …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… with 2 hides there, was held by the Norman abbey of St. Wandrille de Fontenelle (Seine-Infrieure). That abbey of … 1 By 1141 the abbey held churches in five counties, 2 and it was probably in the 12th century that it established … Upavon was made into a prebend of Salisbury, the Abbot of St. Wandrille being received as a canon of Salisbury with the …
A History of the County of Warwick
… except the hamlets, to the Benedictine abbey of St. Peter, Praux, in the diocese of Lisieux. The monks of Praux are said to have built a cell or priory here, and sent over some of their number to occupy it. Their … 1123 and 1146 from the chapter of the collegiate church of St. Mary, Warwick, addressed to abbot Ricard and the convent …
A History of the County of Sussex
… the abbey founded by his father at Grestein in Normandy, and not the least important of his donations was the grant of the manors of Wilmington and Frog Firle in Alfriston, which, with two hides in … Alvred's son William gave four acres near the church of St. Mary of Pevensey (i.e. Westham), and Hugh de Cahaignes …
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 … is established as the founder. Between the years 1086 and 1194, with the consent of his wife Aeliz, he gave to God and St. Mary of St. Pierre-sur-Dive the church of Wolston in free …
A History of the County of Warwick
… Tony gave the church of Wootton Wawen with all its tithes and oblations, and an adjacent hide of land, together with a … of Wootton, deposed that on Friday after the feast of St. Matthew, at the hour of evensong, he was fetched by … afterwards, namely on Wednesday next before the feast of St. Mark, an inquisition was taken in the church of Wootton …
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 procession the … been seized on account of the death of John, late abbot of St. Valery. The prior had complained of this and an …
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 … endowment were granted to the Norman priory about 1150, 1 and it seems probable that the English cell was built almost …