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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Withiel (St. Uvell) WITHIEL ( St. Uvell), a parish, in the union of Bodmin, E. division of the hundred of Pyder and of the county of Cornwall, 5 miles … 370 are common or waste. It anciently belonged to the priory at Bodmin, of which establishment was Prior Vyvyan, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… PARISH CHURCH AND CHURCH LIFE Origins and Status Though the existence of a church within the 10th- and 11th-century estate seems likely, the earliest … tower, whose design is related to that at St Frideswide's priory, Oxford. The tower has triplets of lancet windows at …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Manors and other estates CHURCH. The church existed by 1254 when Simon Battle was the patron. The advowson of the rectory descended with the … St. John's abbey, Colchester, and 2 s. 2 d. to St. Osyth's priory. 7 The rectory was said to be worth 7 marks in 1428, …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES The manor of WIVENHOE was an estate of 5 hides less 15 a. … Gernon. 92 After Robert Gernon's fief had escheated to the Crown, Henry I granted it to William de Mun- fitchet. On … earl of Oxford, granted land in Wivenhoe to Earl's Colne priory. At the Dissolution it was granted to John de Vere, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… N.E.) Wix is a parish 6 m. W.S.W. of Harwich. Wix Abbey is the principal monument. Ecclesiastical b(1). Parish Church of St. Michael stands near the middle of the parish. The ancient portions are of rubble … are covered with slates. The church was attached to a priory of Benedictine nuns founded temp. Henry I and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Andrew) WOLLASTON ( St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Chepstow, hundred of Westbury, W. division of the county of Gloucester, 5 miles (N. E.) from Chepstow; … There is a place of worship for Baptists. An alien priory, a cell to the abbey of St. Peter super Divam, in …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… was of William Peverells fee of a Mannor which defore the Conquest Vlsi had, who paid for it to the Dane-geld after the rate of a carucat and an half. The … in King Henry the firsts time, at the foundation of Lenton Priory; and Adam de Moretonio, 2 22 H. 2. gave account of xxx …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was administered independently of Wolvercote from the Middle Ages; its economic organization is described below. There is no early evidence for the open fields of Wolvercote, which seem to have been … parish boundary. An exchange of land with St. Frideswide's priory in 1358 may have been part of the process: in return …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Introduction WOLVERCOTE, an ancient parish lying on the north-west of the city and liberty of Oxford, c. 2 ½ miles north of the … abbey exchanged 17 a. at Cutteslowe with St. Frideswide's priory for a total of 13 a. in Water Eaton. 47 In 1341 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Godstow abbey had view of frankpledge in Wolvercote, and the royal bailiff had entry into the manor only by the king's writ. The abbey also had rights … held courts until 1651 or later. 96 St. Frideswide's priory had view of frankpledge at Cutteslowe. 97 In the later …