 | Thomas Pennant - England - 1811 - 656 pages
...nuns at the time of the dissolution. The , last abbess, Clementina Stokes, governed it thirty years ; obtained the king's charter for the continuance of...displeasure of the tyrant, resigned it into the hands of Doctor London, the king's commissioner, and got from him the character of a gudde agyd •woman; of... | |
 | Architecture, Domestic - 1847 - 620 pages
...nuns, founded by Simon de St. Liz, the younger, Earl of Northampton, in the reign of King Stephen. It had in it ten nuns at the time of the dissolution....displeasure of the tyrant, resigned it into the hands of Doctor London, the king's commissioner, and got from him the character of a gudde agyd woman ; of her... | |
 | Architecture, Domestic - 1829 - 334 pages
...nuns, founded by Simon de St. Liz, the younger, Earl of Northampton, in the reign of King Stephen. It had in it ten nuns at the time of the dissolution....displeasure of the tyrant, resigned it into the hands of Doctor London, the king's commissioner, and got from him the character of a gudde agyd woman ; of her... | |
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Pre, a house of Cluniac nuns, founded by Simon de St. Liz, the younger, Earl of Northampton, in the reign of King Stephen. It had in it ten nuns at the time of the dissolution. The last Abbess, Clementina Stokes, governed it thirty years, and obtained... 