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Survey of London
… to the cellarer and so continued for the duration of the abbey's ownership. 10 The monks of Westminster retained the … of apples and one of pears to the high altar of the abbey church for blessing. It was no doubt the Fortescus' … possession of Covent Garden and the 7 acres, giving the abbey, in exchange, lands in Berkshire which had formerly …
Survey of London
… chief lords of the fee. It had been part of Westminster Abbey's possessions 'a tempore quo non extat memoria'. 26 … 27 By 1354 it had been allocated to the office of the abbey's sacrist, 28 and in that year, under the description … granted in 1524 to Thomas Bradley for thirty years. 33 The Abbey of Westminster was surrendered on 16 January 1539, 40 …
Survey of London
… energy and acumenmanifested in his rebuilding of Woburn Abbey and his scheme for draining the Fens, as well as in the … water in aqueducts and pipes from Paddington through the abbey's lands, 139 and in 1491 Sir John Fortescu had granted …
Survey of London
… Sir John Summerson's notes on MSS. formerly at Woburn Abbey. Diary of Thomas Burton, Esq., ed. Towill Rutt, 1828, …
Survey of London
… and presented them with two bucks from the herd at Woburn Abbey. Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries …
Survey of London
… the King's hands through the suppression of Westminster Abbey, Russell made a request that it should be given to him. …
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
… parochijs sancte Marie Magdalene et sancti Nicholai Cold Abbey in piscaria. De Radulpho de Bromlee ij s. j d. ij s. j …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… tributary the Ock. According to the chronicler of Abingdon Abbey, a town called Seuekesham or Seouechesham stood here before the building of the 7th-century abbey, 1 after which its name was changed to Abingdon. If … ravages of the Danes, who almost entirely destroyed the abbey in the 9th century. 2 King Alfred and his immediate …
A History of the County of Essex
… was possibly identical with the later Fisher Street (now Abbey Road South). In 1653 the town contained about 170 … of 1653, was the market place, which lay south-east of the abbey site and immediately east of St. Margaret's churchyard. … area, by 'Horspole' probably the horse pool outside the abbey gate a tavern stood in 1456. 7 Here too, the principal …
A History of the County of Bedford
… of him, but he attested the foundation charter of Lessay Abbey at Caen on 14 July 1080 5 and was still living c. … he appears as a witness to a charter granted to Ramsey Abbey. 6 His successor was Simon de Beauchamp, in all … Rohese 19; he is mentioned as one of the knights of Ramsey Abbey in 1184, 20 and between 1194 and 1199 his name appears …