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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of St. Mary. In the north-west part of the town was an abbey, which was destroyed in 1016 by Canute, who also … and colleges, was about 57; and remains yet exist of the abbey of Merevale, comprising some interesting specimens of … seats of the nobility and gentry, are Ragley Hall, Combe Abbey, Packington Hall, and Stoneleigh Abbey. There are …
Alumni Oxonienses
… 1699. See Ath. iv. 794; Fasti, ii. 409; & Rawl. vi. 57. Watton. See also Wotton. Watton, John s. Simon, of Worcester (city), pleb. Christ … 1 April, 1647, B.A. 1666, M.A. 1669, B.D. 1676; rector of Abbey Dore 1677, canon of Hereford 1677, precentor of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and within half a mile of the picturesque ruins of Byland Abbey. Wassand WASSAND, a hamlet, in the township of Seaton, …
A History of the County of Sussex
… in 1241. 36 In 1285 James Byne held lands there of Fcamp abbey, 37 evidently of their Steyning property, since Rowdell … Tetbert, an under-tenant of William de Braose, to Battle abbey. 61 It is presumably represented by lands in the … (Pevensey rape), for Alciston had also belonged to the abbey. 62 ECONOMIC HISTORY There were 34 ploughlands at …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… who then possessed the manor of Waterbeach. In 1293, an abbey for minoresses of the order of St. Clare was founded at … the annual value of the lands was estimated at 172. The abbey house and the demesne have been many years rented as a … WATERHEAD, a township, in the parish of Lanercost-Abbey, union of Brampton, Eskdale ward, E. division of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and clothing. 15 From the 1810s John Hemington of Denny Abbey, the last surviving trustee, apparently failed to …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… on their demesne. 5 In the 1290s the nuns of Waterbeach abbey claimed a similar exemption under their papal … an appeal was made to the pope c. 1301, and in 1304 the abbey was ordered by arbiters to pay the disputed tithes in … 22 s. a year as a composition for all his tithes from the abbey's demesne. Only its lay servants living within its …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 1814 comprising 65 a., lay immediately north-east of the abbey site. Another 31-a. close south of the abbey was still called New close in 1814. 19 A chain of other … almost all meadow and pasture, surrounded the Denny Abbey farmstead, including the 53-a. Far Fen and the 100-a. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… by 1818, and chosen in the 1820s by the lessee of Denny Abbey or his agent, learnt to read on the foundation. The …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… century to the early 4th. 12 Other earthworks around Denny Abbey also date from the Roman period. 13When monks arrived … the village was still growing c. 1345, when Waterbeach abbey built six cottages. 33Some decaying messuages were … church and the site of the late 13th-century Waterbeach abbey. It was prolonged eastward and southward by a causeway, …