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Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… in Kendale] Clawthorpe was given in alms to the abbey of St. Mary, York, first by Ivo Taillebois, then by Ketel son of … co. Lanc., attorney at law. 109097 Ivo Tailbois gave to St. Mary's, York, the church of Burtun and one carucate of … Hilton's house at Burton, where Freysarde and [Nicholas] Owen lurk. Cal. State Papers, Dom. 160310, 256. 1607 Grant of …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… bears date at Burton Force the Munday before the feast of St. Martin in winter, 1 E: 2: the witnesses were John de … The village is small. The church, which is dedicated to St. Helen, has a spire, a nave and side aifles. The tombs …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… church of Burton Overy belonged to the Norman monastery of St. Evroul (Orne), which may originally have obtained it from … Hugh de Grentemesnil, one of the monastery's founders. 27 St. Evroul retained the advowson during the 13th and 14th … being usually made by the Prior of Ware, a cell of St. Evroul in England. 28 A pension was paid by the rector to …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Burton-upon-Trent - Bushey Burton-Upon-Trent (St. Mary and St. Modwena) BURTON-UPON-TRENT ( St. Mary and St. Modwena), a parish, and the head of a union, …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Melburne (1200-14) to the poor and to pilgrims visiting St. Modwen's shrine were continued by Abbot Nicholas of … to defray the expense of putting up a fence in front of St. Modwen's church. Thereafter, the churchwardens paid £1 a … £11 was distributed in soup and sandwiches by the vicar of St. Modwen's and the charity was still distributed in the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… certainly lay hermits, possibly following the rule of St. Paul: 13 a house called the Hermitage in 1546 stood at … was a bridge chapel by the 1260s, and its dedication to St. James was recorded in 1332. 1 On the eve of the … (Ferry bridge). For a 19th-cent. photo. of the ferry see Owen, Illustrated Hist. 97. S.H.C. 1916, 2423. The existence …
A History of the County of Stafford
… 1200 was held on the eve, day, and morrow of the feast of St. Modwen (4-6 July). 3 After the change of calendar in 1752, it was held on Old St. Modwen's day (16 July), and survived until at least 1824 … 25. S.R.O., D. 603/K/24/6, marquess of Anglesey to D. P. Owen, 3 Sept. 1836; D. 603/N/3/26, papers re game …
A History of the County of Stafford
… and in 1872 it was for boys and girls and was known as St. Modwen's Roman Catholic school; it was enlarged in 1881 … 154-6. Below, Winshill, educ. Wall tablet in N. porch of St. Modwen's ch. (text in Shaw, Staffs. i. 11). Burton Libr., …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Burton-upon-Trent Established church ST. MODWEN AND HER CULT Modwen, an Irish abbess returning … to Rome, is alleged to have built a chapel dedicated to St. Andrew on an island in the Trent called Andresey, an Old … of Queen Anne, pp. ccvii, ccxcv. S.R.O., D. 603/K/17/44, Owen to Beer, 16 May 1839; D. 603/K/17/84, income of Burton …
A History of the County of Stafford
… 'Andrew's isle' and refers to a church there dedicated to St. Andrew, known to be one of Wilfrid's favoured saints. Andresey came to be associated with the legendary St. Modwen, and 'Mudwennestow' (Modwen's holy place) was an … of Samvel Harshnet (1600), 265; S.H.C. 1929, 317-18; Owen, Illustrated Hist. 42-5. Below, established church (St. …