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A History of the County of Oxford
… the question, how it was that Oxford first became a place of learning, we must remember the presence of these …
A History of the County of London
… had been obtained by an exchange made with the marquis of Suffolk in 1447; 31 the advowson of Eastling 32 in Kent, …
A History of the County of London
… century, point to the early existence of a church in this place, 1 but nothing certain is known except that in 1068 … house. It seems indeed as if the spiritual side of the place was felt to be somewhat lacking as early as the … extensive improvement to the church appears to have taken place between 1258 and 1261 when Henry III gave the canons …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of the college, but the chapel was evidently a popular place of pilgrimage, whose spiritual benefits were …
A History of the County of Warwick
… had been down to the ground for a long time, that the place and chapel-yard were employed for profane uses, that … it was bestowed on the college to the intent that a place once consecrated might be reconverted to pious uses. 16 …
A History of the County of Durham
… probable that the earl intended the house to serve as a place of retirement for his retainers and servants when they …
A History of the County of Suffolk
… the Valor of 1535 to be 324 4 s. 1 d. The temporalities in Suffolk, Essex, Norfolk, and Hertfordshire brought in an … of Bisley; the Norfolk rectory of Crimplesham, and the Suffolk rectories of Gazeley, Cavenham, Hundon, and Stoke; … contumacious. 14 It is not known precisely what next took place, but the aged diocesan and the queen evidently …
A History of the County of Suffolk
… and one of the leading wool merchants in the county of Suffolk. 1 To Nigel and Sara his wife were born two sons, … of over 200 acres of land in Sudbury and other places in Suffolk, which were the endowment of the priory of Edwardston … but they had two 'conducts' or stipendiaries in their place; that one of the fellows had been acting as chantry …
A History of the County of Stafford
… whether Polesworth or Tamworth was the saint's burial-place. 6 It is in any case likely that by the end of the … Book of Hyde in the 14th cent. give Tamworth as her burial place: Chron. of Hugh Candidus, ed. W. T. Mellows, 62; Liber … there. See below p. 311. The presentation may have taken place immediately after the death of Rob. Marmion II, in or …