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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Sir William Herbert, who by 1544 had also acquired Wilton Abbey and the bulk of its estates. 20 From thence onwards the … in the immediate neighbourhood of Wilton were held by the abbey at the time of Domesday, and were retained by the nuns … paid geld for 8 hides and Ugford for 4 hides; while the abbey estate of Ditchampton consisted of only hide since the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Dissolution, for it was not granted with the rest of the abbey possessions to Sir William Herbert. Eighteenth-century … two great periods of inclosure: the first when much of the abbey property which had passed to Sir William Herbert was … fields were in demesne, representing no doubt the former abbey holdings: 51 in the East field, the earl held 180 a. in …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… and one time Customer of Poole. The influence of the abbey was surprisingly small although it is possible to …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… suggested that the shrine is that of St. Edith in Wilton Abbey, and the female figure is an abbess: E. H. Goddard, …
The Environs of London
… Milton, erected a monument to his memory in Westminster Abbey. He himself was author of an Essay on Virgil's …
A History of the County of Somerset
… been a plasterer and is said to have worked at Fonthill Abbey and to have been responsible for the ceiling of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a palace here, and in 798 laid the foundation of a stately abbey for 300 monks of the Benedictine order, which he … fine or ransom. In the year 819 Cenulph was buried in the abbey which he had founded, where also the remains of his son … monks, who held it till the Dissolution. This was a mitred abbey, the first summons of the abbot to parliament now on …
Survey of London
… 6: WINCHESTER HOUSE AND PARK Early in the 12th century the Abbey of Bermondsey granted to the Bishop of Winchester and … on his last visit to London going in procession to the abbey church of St. Mary in Southwark and receiving …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… The church of ST. BARTHOLOMEW, near the remains of Hyde Abbey, consists of chancel 28 ft. 1 in. by 18 ft. 4 in., … of the church lies in relics of the buildings of Hyde Abbey which it contains. It is built of flint with limestone … old work dates from c. 1120, and doubtless comes from Hyde Abbey. In the south porch stands another relic of the abbey, …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… be found there for distraint. But some shops of Dureford Abbey, in the Haberdashers' Row and elsewhere, were … fair, some of which was let to foreign traders. Dureford Abbey in Sussex had also several shops at one time. Cf. …