The Westonian Guide; Including a Descriptive Account of Woodspring Priory, and of Brockley Hall and Combe

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 Excerpt: ...about a mile through the fields, leads to WOODSPRING. Woodspring is a considerable manor in the parish of Kewstoke, situated on the Bristol channel, about ten miles north west from Axbridge, five from Weston Super Mare, and twenty south west from Bristol. It appears to have been of considerable extent, even so early as the conquest, and is recorded in the Doomsday Survey as having been held by a Saxon, named Euroac, in the time of Edward the Confessor; but his lands sharing the common fate of confiscation, this manor was granted by William the Conqueror to Serlo de Jiurci, who, with the king's consent, gave it as a dowry with his daughter to William de Faleise. It was taxed for six hides, and the arable land was sufficient for twelye ploughs, besides ten acres of coppice and ten acres of pasture, with servants, &c. held in demesne, exclusive of several hundred acres which were at that time added to this manor. It is now celebrated for containing the site and ruins of WOODSPRING PRIORY, which was founded for regular canons of the order of St. Augustine, by William de Courteneye, in 1210, the 12th year of King John. It owes its foundation to the murder of Thomas a Becket; to the honour of whom, united with that of the Holy Trinity and of the Virgin Mary, this monastery was dedicated, its founder having been a descendant from William de Tracy, and nearly allied to the three other assassins of the archbishop; and as all the descendants of these families became benefactors to this institution, it was richly endowed. The name of the earliest recorded prior who presided over this house, was John, who was living in 1266, 50th of Henry III. The last prior was Roger Tormenton. THE PRIORY RUINS are in a secluded situation, well calculated for religious retirement, ..

ISBN:	9781130808445
Publisher:	Rarebooksclub.com
Imprint:	Rarebooksclub.com
Language:	English
Weight:	73g
Height:	246mm
Width:	189mm
Spine width:	2mm

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