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Title: Frant - Bayham Abbey

Image of Frant - Bayham Abbey

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Publisher: Unknown.

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Number of times this image has been viewed: 543.

Posted: c. 1750.

Notes: Contemporary engraving with associated text:
This abbey, as appears by an inquisition, 19th of Henry VIII is situated partly in Kent, and partly in Sussex.
About the year 1200, Robert de Turnham or Thornham, with the consent of his Lord, William de Clare, granted to the praemonstratensian canons of Brokely, all his lands at Begeham, in pure and perpetual alms for the purpose of building a new abbey to the honor of God, and the Blessed Virgin Mary, on a spot called Beaulieu, for which they were annually to pay him twelve-pence at Greenwich, in lieu of all services and dues whatsoever: He also granted them divers other lands, and confirmed the gift of Michael Thornham his uncle.
In another charter he agreed to the removal of the abbot and canons from Otteham hither, assigning for reason the great and intolerable poverty of that place. This removal for the same reasons was also authorised by the charter of Ela de Saukeville, the daughter of the founder Ralph de Dene, reserving to herself the same authority to which she and her heirs were entitled. The charters of K. John and Edward 2d confirmed to them the donations of divers benefactions.

Category: Place of Worship.

Resolution of scanned image (pixels): 508 x 756.

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Frant.

Church shown on this image:

Bayham Abbey.

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