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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of the parish, and who was author of the History of the Abbey of St. Albans, was interred here in the year 1797. … as a silk manufactory; the grand entrance of the abbey, which still displays traces of its original … and the granary at a short distance to the north of the abbey, which has been converted into a private residence, but …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… at Lower Halliford. 77 Charters forged at Westminster Abbey about 1100 allege that St. Dunstan bought Shepperton from a widow named Æthelflæd and gave it to the abbey. 78 There may be some truth in this, for Shepperton is … with Sunbury, which Dunstan very probably did give to the abbey, than with the neighbouring manor of Halliford, which, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… by the FitzJames family before the dissolution of Bruton abbey, passed to the Crown and continued to be let. 66 In … the 1770s and 1780s, in part using materials from Bruton Abbey. 83 In 1793 the contents of the house were sold on the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… is a parish and town near the N. border of the county. The abbey church, the remains of the abbey buildings (now the School), Sherborne Hospital … pavement is said to have been found on the site of the abbey "some time ago" (P. D. Carpenter in Dorset N.H. and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Here was a monastery of Black canons, a cell to Nutley Abbey, in the county of Buckingham. Shermanbury (St. Giles) …
Alumni Oxonienses
… & Calamy, ii. 219. Simpson, Matthew s. Geo., of Eggleston Abbey, Yorks, p.p. Queen's Coll., matric. 6 July, 1691, aged … 1664, aged 17; one of these names buried in Westminster abbey 10 March, 1690-1. [ 35] Smallbrooke, Richard s. Joh., …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Church CHURCH A chapel existed c. 1230 when Eynsham abbey, as lord, agreed to give the vicars of Bampton 2 lb. of … at vespers on the vigil of St. Laurence. 26 In 1499 the abbey allowed a cottage in Cote to be used by the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the township's southeast corner was confirmed to Eynsham abbey in the 1150s, 19 and cow common or lease, apparently in … service was transferred c. 1426 to a holding let to the abbey's bailiff. 35 Average personalty in 1306 and 1327 was … and significant amounts of wheat and dredge went to the abbey's grange. 56 By 1427 part of the demesne seems to have …
A History of the County of Oxford
… when the vill or township ( villa) was granted to Eynsham abbey, and 13 tenants, each presumably representing a … and in the 15th century buildings associated with Eynsham abbey's stone-built manorial farmstead faced or adjoined the … 19th century, 65 refer respectively to the site of Eynsham abbey's manorial farmstead, and to a lane leading through …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and to his kinsman Aethelmar, who granted it to Eynsham abbey at its refoundation in 1005. 67 After the Conquest the abbey's Oxfordshire lands passed temporarily to the bishops … when Shifford was assessed at 3 hides, and thereafter the abbey retained the manor until the Dissolution. 68 During the …