Identifier: transactionsofsh38shro (find matches)
Title: Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (Great Britain)
Subjects: Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (Great Britain) Excavations (Archaeology) Natural history
Publisher: Shrewsbury (etc.) Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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old, Escheator of the Lord the King in theCounty of Salop and the Marches adjacent to the sameCounty &c. By the oath of Richard Husee, Richard Stury,Nicholas Sondford, William Poynor, John Blyk, RichardHorton, Robert Coyne, &c. Who say upon their oath thatRoger Trumpyngton, chivaler, in the said writ named, heldjointly with Margaret, his wife, yet alive, on the day he died,the manor of Aldemerc, with the appurtenances, in the saidCounty of Salop, to himself and the aforesaid Margaret, andto the heirs of the said Roger for ever, of the gift andfeoffment of John Ludwyk, of the County of Hertford,William Wenlok, of Luton, in the County of Bedford,esquires (and others) by licence 6th Jan. 7 Henry IV. And they say that the said manor is held of the Lord theKing in chief by the service of one knights fee &c. And thatthe same Roger died on Thursday next after the Feast ofSt. Michael last past, and that Walter Trumpyngton is hisson and next heir, of the age of five years and more.
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MISCELLANEA. (Under tlm heading the Editors will be pleased to insert notes,and short articles relative to reeent discoveries in the Comity,or other matters of archceological or historical interest.Communications are ineited, and should be addressed to theEditors, c/o Mr. H. W. Adnitt) (Hon. See.), The Square,Shrewsbury. \ I. H AUG H MONO ABBEY. Haughmond Abbey was founded about 1135 by William FitzAlan (who was buried in the Abbey Church at Shrewsbury) forCanons regular of the order of St. Augustine, but judging from thefragments of the first church found by excavation it was upon avery small scale. Some fifty years later, owing to the increasedwealth and numbers of inmates, the abbey was entirely rebuilt upona much larger plan, and of this rebuilding are considerable remains. The abbey was suppressed with the greater monasteries in J 541,and tlie annual value then amounted to £259 1 3s. 7d. Itcontained an Abbot and twelve Canons. The abbey was granted to Sir Edward Littleton, Ivnt.

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