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A History of the County of Northampton
… elsewhere in Cleley hundred. Other Estates. St. James's abbey in Northampton received at least two small gifts in … on the latter occasion less 26 s. 8d. belonging to Osney abbey, 36 to whom Robert d'Oyley's gift was confirmed in … of the window in Abbot Litchfield's chapel in Evesham Abbey. 73 The following year the reading desk and pulpit were …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 78 under a grant, made to its mother-house, St. Mary's abbey, York, c. 1130 by Wimar the steward, of his Wicken … fen. 88 When the tithes were commuted in 1842, Spinney Abbey farm, 374 a., was agreed to enjoy exemption as former … are floorslabs for Henry Cromwell (d. 1674) of Spinney Abbey, his widow, and a son and grandson. Their remains were …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… group of several closes was that lying around Spinney Abbey; their 343 a. occupied by the 1650s a blunted, … 2 Closes, totalling 123 a., which lay close to Spinney Abbey in the 1650s, included four called the Stockings (12 … a. of 'skirtland', and 150 a. of less valuable fen. 4 The Abbey estate also retained some open-field land, for which 64 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… youngest son William, cr. Bt. 1660 (d. 1714). 11 Spinney Abbey was actually occupied, until his death in 1664, by the … lately governor of Ireland. 14 Henry, settled at Spinney Abbey from 1664, 15 suffered an ironical visit there from … and heir Henry, 17 overwhelmed by debt, sold the Spinney Abbey estate in 1692 to Admiral Edward Russell. 18 Russell, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… place is recorded in Domesday book as belonging to the abbey of Evesham, the monks of which subsequently erected a …
Alumni Oxonienses
… his death 28 Feb., 1756; buried 9 March in Westminster abbey. See Al. West. 31; Robinson, i. 313; Rawl. 123, xxi. 211; Bloxam, vi. 120; & Westminster Abbey Reg. 389. Wilcox, Peter of Devon, pleb. Exeter Coll., … of John 1700. See Rawl. i. 361, and vi. 264; & West. Abbey Reg. 418. [ 20] Willes, George of co. Warwick, gent. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… continued till 1179, when his son Hugh founded a noble abbey in honour of St. James, for monks of the order of St. … ancient building. The manor was formerly held by Reading Abbey, Berkshire. Wigtoft (St. Peter and St. Paul) WIGTOFT ( … The town was burnt by the Scots when they plundered the abbey of Holme-Cultram, in 1322; and during the civil war, in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… in the parish. The major monument is the Cistercian Abbey of Pipewell (9) which lay in the S. of the parish on … (8) Deserted village of Pipewell, (9) Site of Cistercian Abbey Medieval and Later An Anglo-Saxon ring and parts of two … I (1975), Blatherwycke (3)). In 1143 the Cistercian Abbey of St. Mary (9) was founded and established on the N. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Church The church of 'Wivelicota', granted to Oseney abbey in 1151 by Ralph Basset, son of the justiciar, may have … with the place. That church was subsequently lost by the abbey. 95 The earliest incontrovertible evidence of a church …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… The manor was given by Wulfric Spott to Burton Abbey, under which it was held in the 13th and 14th centuries …