Account of the Abbey’s profits from certain rights
All lords of manors had the right to
hold a court for their tenants, sometimes known as a court baron or small court, which regulated the affairs of the manor by the custom of the manor, but only some ...
Agreement concerning the office of shepherd
As well as various granges on their more distant lands (see 972/1/1/489) Lilleshall Abbey had three granges close to the mother house – Cherswell, Watling Street and Wildmoor – and a farm actually at ...
Charter of King Stephen
The charter says the grant is to the canons regular of Donnington showing that they had already moved from their original site at Lizard between Watling Street and Merdich which Philip de Belmeis had ...
Early 13th Century Sale
Robert Hagerwas specifically wanted money to go to the Holy Land. Many thousands went on pilgrimage to Jerusalem, St. James at Compostela in Spain or St. Peter at Rome. There was a sense of Christendom ...
Grant in Frankalmoign
When founders or benefactors made gifts of land or manors to a religious house they were basically enfeoffing them to a tenant. In the feudal system this tenant, even if it were an abbey or priory, would ...
Grant of Indulgence
The system of granting indulgences gained popularity at the time of the First Crusade whereby repentant sinners who prayed for forgiveness and made a personal commitment were offered relief from their ...
Inventory of books and other things in the parish church of North Molton, Devon
In 1313 Edward II granted Alan Charlton and his wife Ellen license to alienate to the abbot and convent of Lilleshall one acre of land in North Molton and the advowson of the church. (See Document 972/1/1/552 ...
Lease of Beobridge Grange
The system of granges was originally pioneered by monks of the Cistercian order in the 12th century. They used lay brothers to run the farms enabling them to remain outside the then usual manorial system. ...
Letters Patent
Many parish churches were founded in the early Middle Ages by lords of estates who felt they remained in some sense their property which they could give to a monastery if they wished. Such a gift was ...
Manumission
Serfs in the 12th century could be sold by their lords together with the land. Though the term ‘serf’ in the 13th century gave way to that of ‘villein’ and the connotations with slavery disappeared, villeins ...