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A History of the County of Stafford
… 5 It received two early endowments. Nicholas de Audley in his will left the friars 8 8 s. 6 d. owed to him by the … for the Newcastle house from her executors. 7 Between 1351 and 1361 Henry, Duke of Lancaster, gave the friars licence to … the enlargement of their house' 3 burgages adjoining it, and released to them the annual rent of 3 s. 9 d. by which …
A History of the County of Kent
… only house of Dominican nuns, or ' Sisters of the Order of St. Augustine according to the institutes and under the care of the Friars Preachers,' in England. The … Edward III seems to have taken no steps to carry out his father's intention until after Thomas Lord Wake of …
A History of the County of Somerset
… was entered into between Thomas Trevet of Ilchester and Walter and Matilda Lune so that through the acknowledgement of … the friars purchasing from William de Aubeny and Clemencia his wife another messuage in Ilchester. In 1283 3 licence was …
A History of the County of Chester
… their patron, Alexander Stavensby, bishop of Coventry and Lichfield. So vehement was his reaction to the prospect of the two orders competing for … and probably the friars at first used the nearby chapel of St. Nicholas; that would explain an early reference to the …
A History of the County of Bedford
… in Dunstable in 1259 1 at the invitation of the king and queen and the magnates of the neighbourhood, and began at once with … to the priory in 1265 for nine years, returning to his own house in 1274 4; and in 1278 the prior of Dunstable, …
A History of the County of Dorset
… in England. It was founded by Hugh Deverell, knt., and John Rogers, chief of the house of Rogers of Bryanston in … opposed the new foundation, and in 1426 shortly before his death declared the friars contumacious and forbade their … 21 The patron saint of the church was, according to Speed, St. Dominic; according to Willis, St. Winifred. The cemetery …
A History of the County of Kent
… new province of England at their head, landed at Dover, and proceeding to Canterbury stayed two days at the priory of … and dip a cup in the pot and pass it round, each, as his turn came, saying some word of edification. 1 The friars … diocese in 1300. 23 Archbishop Reynolds licensed Robert of St. Albans, the warden, Nicholas de Clive and Alan de Bourne …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Friars were beginning the 'construction of their dwellings and chapel' at Lichfield, 2 but no contemporary evidence has … England until Henry Ill's own reign. When Leland made his tour of England about 1540 he found that local tradition, … which showed a man in a surcoat kneeling before Christ and St. Francis; an inscription over his head asked for prayers …
A History of the County of Kent
… obtained licence to alienate in mortmain to the minister and Friars Minors of England two messuages and six acres of … Edw. III, pt. 1, m. 8; Inq. a.q.d. file 216, No. 2. Fr. a St. Clara (Chr. Davenport), Hist. Min. (Douai, 1665), 7, says the house was founded by Edw. III and his brother John earl of Cornwall (who died 1336). …
A History of the County of Kent
… many provinces, lived here the last fifteen years of his life, worn out by quartan fevers. 96 The house existed …