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A History of the County of Worcester

… monastic life and the ousting of secular canons from the monasteries did not come until the tenth century when St. …

RELIGIOUS HOUSES: Introduction

A History of the County of Sussex

… monks at Boxgrove and Sele, both originally cells of alien monasteries. The nuns of the order had a settlement at …

RELIGIOUS HOUSES: Introduction

A History of the County of York

… Rievaulx, Roche and Sawley, forming a group of Cistercian monasteries that cannot be paralleled elsewhere in England, …

Religious houses: Introduction

A History of the County of Cumberland

… parts of the kingdom to admit brethren of the northern monasteries to hospitality till the pressure was relaxed. It … to the requisite standard, there can be no doubt that the monasteries smarted under his supervision. In cases of … great agitation which preceded the final overthrow of the monasteries in the county. The coming of the friars to …

Religious houses: Introduction

A History of the County of Chester

… in local disorder. In the early 16th century the monasteries apparently became more prosperous again but also … of Chester Abbey, i (Chetham Soc. N.S. lxxix), p. xv. The monasteries of Bromborough (T. Tanner, Notitia Monastica, ed. …

Religious houses: Introduction

A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely

… some features of outstanding interest. The Benedictine monasteries of Ely and Thorney were Saxon foundations, and …

Religious houses: Introduction

A History of the County of Essex

… amount of their possessions was considerable. The early monasteries in England, as elsewhere, were under no real … about 950, and thenceforward it spread among the remaining monasteries, its adoption being finally ordered by Lanfranc … orders was in the matter of discipline. The Benedictine monasteries were independent of each other, and to this the …

Religious houses: Introduction

A History of the County of Northampton

… sentence in consigning the knights to the various monasteries as prisoners to fulfil their penance. Seventeen of the order were sent to as many monasteries of the diocese. The monks of St. Andrew, …

RELIGIOUS HOUSES: Introduction

A History of the County of Gloucester

… possessions of the religious houses. The chief Benedictine monasteries had their origin before the beginning of the … and Brimpsfield were established as cells of Benedictine monasteries in Normandy in the reign of William the …

Religious houses: Introduction

A History of the County of Oxford

… of Reading or Abingdon; nor in antiquity with the ancient monasteries of Worcestershire. None of the Oxfordshire houses … income of 800 a year at the time of the dissolution of the monasteries; and none of them could claim an unbroken …