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A History of the County of Chester
… the community was moved to Norton by William, the founder's son. The move may have been prompted by strategic … but William the Constable added nothing to his father's original endowment. 10 Two of William FitzNeal's tenants … to Norton from Leicester Abbey was walled up as an anchorite in the churchyard of St. John's, Chester, and in …
A History of the County of Suffolk
… for the good estate of King Henry, and for his own soul's sake, and for that of his wife Bertha, and their ancestors … roll of 1291 gave the annual value of the priory as 130 15 s. 7 d. Of this sum 56 13 s. 4 d. came from the appropriated … abbot, relinquishing his office by choice, was consecrated anchorite at the chapel of St. Mary in the old monastery near …
A History of the County of Oxford
… for the burial of such a saint as Birinus. Moreover an anchorite of Holywell near Oxford heard a voice saying: 'It … ' anglice, goshawk,' which had cost the abbey more than 50 s. Another canon had a private room where the canons met … The annual allowance for clothing had been reduced from 20 s. to 13 s. 4 d. The sum of 10 s. a year, left by a former …
A History of the County of Warwick
… by Bishop Stretton in January, 1360, to inclose an anchorite, Brother Roger de Henorebarwe, who desired to … that John Grene was prior, 1432-50, the large sum of 314 6 s. 8 d. was spent on building. The payments were almost … received from loans and from the sale of jewels 205 2 s. 9 d. In 1400 three books and a silver basin were sold for …
A History of the County of York
… has always been unexplained. Probably Canon Fowler's suggestion is the true explanation of the matter, viz., ' … anchor-hold, there should spring up an abbey, of which the anchorite should be the first abbot.' 2 The date of the … was excommunicate, both because he had not paid the pope's tithe and had turned to other uses the tithes of the chapel …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… during his lifetime and certainly was abbot on Ethelwold's death in 984, was Godeman, his chaplain and a monk of … Botolph from Boston, and these, with the body of Botolph's brother, Adolf, were preserved at Thorney, 9 giving the … alone, its second patron saint. 10 Relics of Ethelwold's predecessor, Hereferth, Bishop of Winchester, slain in …
A History of the County of Suffolk
… of 1291 shows that this priory had then an income of 6 12 s. 1 d. from lands and rents in eight different parishes. 4 … of the cell of St. Felix, gives a full account of the year's receipts and outlay. The rents and court fees amounted to … to the friars of Orford, and half a bushel of wheat to the anchorite of Orford. There were also various donations of …
A History of the County of Hertford
… monks of Stoke the hermitage of Standon which William the Anchorite built, that they might celebrate service there to … saving, however, the right, peace and quiet of William the Anchorite. 2 It was apparently the earl's intention to establish a community of religious there, and …
A History of the County of Chester
… in the writings of two monks of Chester: Ranulph Higden's Polychronicon, of the mid 14th century and Henry Bradshaw's life of St. Werburgh, of the early 16th. According to that … Robert of Marketon who had unwisely vowed to become an anchorite. Within the monastery no fashionable clothes were …
A History of the County of Lincoln
… Later scholarship has, however, rejected it. 2 In 714 an anchorite of widespread fame died at Crowland. Guthlac was … York, had great possessions, which he longed to use in God's service, and he begged that Crowland might be given to him. … vill of Barnack, noted for its quarries. 13 After the earl's unjust execution in 1076 his body was brought to Crowland …