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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 ...

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 ...

James Leveson & Wolverhampton

James Leveson was the son of Richard Leveson of Prestwood. His brother Nicholas was a successful wool merchant who moved from Wolverhampton to London and became a Merchant of the Staple. James shared ...

James Leveson (c.1500-1547)

James Leveson was the younger brother of Nicholas Leveson, son of Richard Leveson (d. 1503)and his wife Jane Bradbury. James Leveson is extremely significant in the history of the Leveson family, as he ...

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 ...

Medieval Cheddleton

The document above dates back to 1328. A transcription and translation of the document features below: "This is the agreement made between John, by the grace of God Abbot of Lilleshall and the religious ...

Nicholas Leveson, (c.1490-1539)

Nicholas Leveson (c.1490-1539) was the son of Richard Leveson of Prestwood (d. 1503) and his wife Jane Bradbury who was from the same family as Sir Thomas Bradbury, Master Mercer and Lord Mayor of London. Nicholas ...

Richard Leveson (d. 1561)

Richard Leveson was the son of James Leveson (c.1500-1547)and his first wife Alice Wrotteseley (d. 1525), daughter of Sir Richard Wrottesley of Wrottesely. The Sutherland Papers includes Richard's original ...

The Collegiate Church of St. Peter in the Sutherland Papers: The Church and the Leveson family in the Fifteenth Century

The Leveson family’s history is closely associated with the history of St. Peter’s Church in Wolverhampton. R. F. Wisker refers to an entry in the Calendar Patent Rolls stating that heads of the Leveson ...

The First House at Trentham, 1540-1591

James Leveson’s son Sir Richard Leveson and his wife Mary inherited Trentham when James died in 1545. Mary outlived her husband by over thirty years and had a long association with the first Trentham ...

The Leveson Family & Trentham Priory

The Leveson family first became associated with Trentham in 1540. In 1536 Trentham Priory was dissolved during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. A successful wool merchant from Wolverhampton, James ...

Thomas Leveson (1532-1576)

Thomas Leveson was the son of Nicholas Leveson (c. 1490-1539) and his wife Denise (Dionysia) Bodley. Whereas his cousin Richard inherited his father James Leveson’s lands in Trentham and Lilleshall, Thomas ...

Wolverhampton & The Leveson Family

During the thirteenth century the Leveson family lived in Willenhall, near Wolverhampton. During the late 1290s Richard Leveson married a lady called Margery who was the heiress of Henry, son of Clement ...

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