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A History of the County of Middlesex
… 5 MANOR ASHFORD belonged from early times to Westminster Abbey, and has always been held in chief. It is said to have … the Confessor, 8 and it may possibly have been held by the abbey at an earlier date. In the reign of Edward it was one … and repair of the ploughs on the manor. 13 Westminster Abbey Gules St. Peter's Keys or. Ashford remained with the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… in the taxation returns of 1291 as belonging to the abbey of Westminster. 6 Most of the principal landowners of …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… the members of Staines which had been given to Westminster Abbey by Offa King of Mercia. 12 This charter is, however, of … Hospital of St. Giles, with the church of Feltham, to the abbey of St. Mary Graces by the Tower of London. 105 It is …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… church appears to have been originally appropriated to the Abbey of St. Valery or Valeric in Picardy, as part of the … advowson of Hampton, with all the other property of the Abbey of St. Valery in Middlesex, was alienated in …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Mary, Queen of Scots, from Peterborough to Westminster Abbey. 470 The court was at the palace again in December … Somerset House. She was afterwards buried in Westminster Abbey. 480 One of the curious economies of James I was the … and buried among the kings and queens in Westminster Abbey. A week after her death Cromwell himself was …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… mentioned as confirming a grant of lands in Glouc. to the Abbey of Fontevrault; Round, Cal of Doc. France, i, 286, 380, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… by an offshoot of the main stream, and is divided from the Abbey Mead of Chertsey on the south by a stream called the … the Island of Burgh in the original endowment of Chertsey Abbey between 666 and 675, 1 and is described as separated … by water, which formed part of the boundary of the abbey lands, 2 but it is not clear which of the two lay …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… heirs. It appears to have been by 1316 in the hands of the Abbey and Convent of Westminster, 17 who had temporalities … there as early as 1291, 18 and it is probable that the abbey may have received a grant of it towards the end of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… annum. A priory of Black monks at Sporle, a cell to the abbey of Saumers, in Anjou, was granted by Henry VI. towards … absorbed in monastic lands. On the dissolution of Whalley Abbey, Henry VIII., having seized the possessions of that …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 19 The Cambridge United Football Club 20 was founded as Abbey United in 1919. The name was derived from the club's … with the church of St. Andrew the Less, known as the abbey church, whose curate, W. Warr, became its first president. Abbey United entered the third division of the Cambridgeshire …