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A History of the County of York North Riding
… were claimed: the Abbots of St. Mary's, York, and Byland Abbey, and the lords of Barton-le-Street, Helmsley, …
Old and New London
… one-third of the proceeds of musical entertainments in the Abbey. In its first half century it had numbered 150,000 … funeral took place on the 3rd of August, in Westminster Abbey. On that day, his friend's son, Thomas Babington … in London, and his statue has been placed in Westminster Abbey. At York, a County Asylum for the Blind has been …
Old and New London
… as Eabury or Ebury." The manor of Ea, as confirmed to the Abbey of Westminster by the Conqueror, seems to have included … as Mr. Davis tells us, though given thus early to the Abbey, the manor was not included in the franchise of the … formed Hyde Park. All these manors belonged to the Abbey till the Reformation, when they "escheated to" i.e., …
Cardiff Records
… which reason Sir Richard gave him Lands for building the Abbey of Neath, and other Churches and holy places. And this … as good as himself. After this Sir Richard died in his Abbey of Neath, and the Rights of high Lordship fell to his … of Newchurch, and Gwyn of Llangwm Uchaf. Sully Keynsham Abbey, Somersetshire, which held large possessions near …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… This was the fulling-mill belonging to the Cistercian abbey of Stanley, near Calne, first mentioned, as molendinum … in a charter of Richard I (1189) confirming the abbey's holdings. 16 Not long afterwards, in 1215, we hear of … by Pegolotti we read that Wiltshire's one Cistercian abbey of Stanley could be counted on to supply each year some …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… pincerna who before 1150 gave the church there to Alcester Abbey (Warws.). 39 Probably this was a gift for Ralph's life … for his son Robert soon afterwards gave it to Leicester Abbey; Leicester appropriated the rectory and retained the … of 1 carucate and 2 tofts in Theddingworth to Leicester Abbey by William of Kirby Muxloe, which had probably been …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… he hath also one church. All this was settled on the abbey or priory that he founded here, and continued in that … take it, was St. Nicholas's, which always belonged to the abbey. This was afterwards called Halwick, or Thetford Manor, …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… he was only Duke of Normandy, and was first a monk of Bec abbey in Normandy, being well esteemed among them for his …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… all the churches, monasteries, and inhabitants, except the abbey and nunnery, which were exempted from it; and yet the abbey, though it did not acknowledge itself subject to the … good manors and more) belonging to his bishoprick, for the abbey and revenues of St. Bennet of the Holme, which seems …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… ponds along the rivers, adjoining to the grove of the abbey, and all that severed fishing, sometime in the …