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A History of the County of Kent
… it possessed an abbey of the first rank; but the remaining monasteries proper were hardly as numerous or as important as … a few vanished before the general Dissolution. The Kentish monasteries do not appear to advantage near their end. The … came into effect; and under this the remaining smaller monasteries fell. St. Augustine's, Faversham, Mailing, …
A History of the County of Norfolk
… and probably many others. It is clear that he found the monasteries on the whole in a creditable state, very little … was the case during the latter part of the life of the monasteries, from the highly interesting visitation registers … White Canons, is most marked. The condition of the Norfolk monasteries at the time of their suppression has been most …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… its responsibilities and transferred the property to other monasteries, such as the Carthusian house of Sheen, or to … subject to diocesan visitation, but the three Cistercian monasteries, the house of White Canons, and the alien … of the alien priories in Gasquet's Henry VIII. and the Monasteries, vol. i. ch. 2. Kindly supplied by Mr. Leland S. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… nearly thirty years after the Norman Conquest. Eleven monasteries were established before 1200, but more than half …
City of London Livery Companies Commission. Report
… exercised under the bishop, the chapter, and the monasteries; and the guilds administered by their own … middle ages, only a very few survive. Many were of course monasteries, nunneries or chauntries; these were suppressed, … to superstitious uses, that they perished along with the monasteries. 31 But there can be no doubt that a considerable …
City of London Livery Companies Commission. Report
… its confiscation at the time of the dissolution of the monasteries. This was done by means of Crown grants made in …
City of London Livery Companies Commission. Report