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A History of the County of Warwick
… GENERAL HISTORY. Harnall was first mentioned in the Combe Abbey charter and in the bounds of the Prior's Half of … and a field and meadow called Combewell. 98 The Combe Abbey charter mentions both ridges and furlongs, suggesting … a number of freeholders, among them Coventry Priory, Combe Abbey, and Geoffrey de Langley. 99 It was not separately …
A History of the County of Warwick
… Coundon and the larger part of Sowe were held by Coventry Abbey, later the priory. 3 The first detailed description of …
A History of the County of Warwick
… and Stoke, and north of the old London road, now called Abbey Road, at Whitley. The modern line of London Road … by-pass which is here called Stonebridge Highway. Whitley Abbey and its grounds lay south of the old London road. The site of the house is occupied by Whitley Abbey School, and between the school and the confluence of …
A History of the County of Warwick
… of the Stokes), 38 granted Harperswood in Stoke to Combe Abbey, his neighbour Thomas de Stoke had a house there. 39 …
A History of the County of Warwick
… century. 21 By at least the early 13th century Leicester Abbey had acquired 22 a croft in Sowe in the right of which the abbey later claimed to hold view of frankpledge there. 23 At … 25 The property may originally have been granted to the abbey with its lands in the neighbouring Bramcote in …
A History of the County of Warwick
… to be called a manor in the early 14th century. 1 Combe Abbey had a water-mill in Wyken and Sowe in the late 12th century, 2 and although the abbey appears only as an intermediate tenant in the 13th century 3 the references to this holding in the abbey's registers were probably responsible for later …
A History of the County of Durham
… to one account, of Coldingham. He lived within the abbey and held high position there, dying, as it might … The postern gate, by which access was gained to the Abbey Mill below the cathedral, was built up to prevent any …
A History of the County of Durham
… somewhat obscure allusion to the conditions of life in the abbey is interesting. It occurs in 1272 in connexion with a … drawback in the life of the monastery and city. Durham Abbey did not receive the purging help that the river so … lands were held on condition of presenting a deer at the abbey on St. Cuthbert's feast in September. The destination …
A History of the County of Durham
… Coles, who in 1674 sold it to the Musgraves. In 1631 the Abbey bells were recast. In 1632 a house of correction was … Bridge (100 yds. above the present Prebend's Bridge), the Abbey Mill on the left bank, and buildings on Framwellgate … of the foregoing under the title The Antiquities of the Abbey, or Cathedral Church of Durham. It is a reprint of …
Magna Britannia
… of Plympton, and possessor of the castle of Exeter, to Tor Abbey. 61 The college in the castle was suppressed with other … St. Olave is an ancient building: it was given to Battle Abbey by William the Conqueror. This church has been usually … that according to the history of the foundation of Ford Abbey he died without issue. It is there stated, that Richard …