part of the extensive possessions of Earl Roger, was granted by his son, Hugh de Montgomeri, to the Abbey of Fecamp, in Normandy, and, after the suppression of alien priories, was transferred to the Monastery of Syon, in Middlesex. At the dissolution... A History of the Castles, Mansions, and Manors of Western Sussex - Page 8by Dudley George Cary Elwes - 1876 - 285 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1814 - 872 pages
...grant of a weekly market. In the 23d of the same reign they procured a charter for a yearly fair. On the dissolution of religious houses, in the reign of Henry VIII. the revenues were stated at 290Í. Ins. Okd. The prioress and the whole of the nuns were favoured with... | |
| John Bigland - 1815 - 1038 pages
...church were also nine chantries: but their situations cannot at this time be precisely ascertained. At the dissolution of religious houses, in the reign of Henry VIII. this collegiate church felt the grasp of the tyrant, in the almost total loss of its revenues. The... | |
| Esq. A. Atkinson - Antrim (Ireland : County) - 1823 - 602 pages
...its endowments; it was founded in the year 550, by a St. Finian, son of Ultach, King of Ulster, and at the dissolution of religious houses in the reign of Henry VIII, it appears to have been possessed of seven townlands, and the spiritualities of sixteen and a half... | |
| Esq. A. Atkinson - Antrim (Northern Ireland : County) - 1823 - 442 pages
...its endowments;, it was founded in the year 550, by a St. Finian, son of Ultach, King of Ulster, and at the dissolution of religious houses in the reign of Henry VIII, it appears to have been possessed of seven townlands, and the spiritualities of sixteen and a half... | |
| Englishmen - 1836 - 254 pages
...and Hebrew grammars, then in England, and appointed five keepers to whom he granted yearly salaries. At the dissolution of religious houses in the reign of Henry VIII., Durham college, where he had fixed the library, being dissolved among the rest, some of the books were... | |
| Joseph W. Wyld - 1838 - 220 pages
...Leamington Priors, from its having anciently belonged to the priors of Kenilworth, from whom it was taken at the dissolution of religious houses in the reign of Henry VIII., and vested in the Crown. In the reign of Queen Elizabeth, the manor was granted to Ambrose Dudley,... | |
| Joseph W. Wyld - 1838 - 220 pages
...Leamington Priors, from its having anciently belonged to the priors of Kenilworth, from whom it was taken at the dissolution of religious houses in the reign of Henry VIII., and vested in the Crown. In the reign of Queen Elizabeth, the manor was granted to Ambrose Dudley,... | |
| George Godwin - Church buildings - 1839 - 774 pages
...Scotland ; and Isabel, wife of Sir William Fitzwarren, and at one time Queen of the Isle of man. 2 After the dissolution of religious houses in the reign of Henry VIII. the church of this establishment was used as a warehouse for prizes taken from the French, and in consequence... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 906 pages
...name of Fontenay, in France. England; and appointed fire keepers, to whom he granted yearly salaries. At the dissolution of religious houses in the reign of Henry VIII. Durham college, where he fixed the libmy, being also dissolved, some of the books were removed to the... | |
| James Fraser (of Dublin.) - 1844 - 788 pages
...country. The monastery appears to have been founded by the Anglo Normans, in 1193, and flourished until the dissolution of religious houses in the reign of Henry VIII. The ruins comprise the remains of the monastery, abbey, and cloisters : the walls of the squares which... | |
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