• Priory of St. Thomas near Stafford was an Augustinian religious house near Stafford, Staffordshire, England. Founded sometime in approximately 1174, it...
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    recorded as having been buried at Stone Priory: Hugh de Stafford, 2nd Earl of Stafford (1342-1386), of Stafford Castle, his bones, after dying in Rhodes...
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  • previously Calwich Priory, was in turn the name of a medieval Augustinian priory and two successive country houses built on the same site near Ellastone, Staffordshire...
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  • 1928, the St. Benedict's Priory was raised to the rank of an Abbey, and the house was renamed St Mary's Abbey. A daughter house, the Priory of St. Scholastica...
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  • Stafford Friary was a religious house of Franciscan friars in Stafford, Staffordshire, England. Founded sometime in the 13th century, it was a surrendered...
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    to St Michael the Archangel's Church, Framlingham, Suffolk. Secondly, early in 1513, he married Lady Elizabeth Stafford, daughter of Edward Stafford, 3rd...
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    to another priory in the neighbourhood – an Augustinian convent dedicated to St. Leonard and known as White Ladies Priory. The two priories were founded...
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    Croxden Abbey and Trentham Priory, regarding the access and ownership of land, especially pastureland, and of the collection of tithes. These problems seem...
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    Saltman (1970). "Houses of Cistercian monks: The abbey of Croxden". A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 3. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved...
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    Penkridge (category History of Staffordshire)
    passed to the nuns of Black Ladies Priory at Brewood. Drayton belonged to the Augustinian Priory of St. Thomas, near Stafford. Most of the manors were quite...
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    History of the County of Stafford: Volume 3 (pp.216-219) British History Online — Houses of Augustinian canons: The priory of St Thomas near Stafford — Victoria...
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    covered the Priory of St. Thomas, near Stafford, which had held the manor of Drayton since 1194. As soon as the act was passed, Rowland Lee, Bishop of Coventry...
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    knights of the shire, and witnesses, warrantors, and seal signatories for the Chartulary of the Priory of St. Thomas near Stafford, Thomas de Grenlay...
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    powerful peer in England. After the dissolution of Thetford Priory, the Howard tombs were moved to the Church of St Michael the Archangel, Framlingham. A now-lost...
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    Abbey or Ranton Priory was an Augustinian Priory in Ranton, Staffordshire, England, built c.1150 by Robert fitz Noel of Ellenhall. The priory flourished in...
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  • Trentham Priory was a Christian priory in North Staffordshire, England, near the confluence between the young River Trent and two local streams, where...
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  • Canwell Priory was a medieval monastic house in Staffordshire, England, founded ca. 1140. "Houses of Benedictine monks: The priory of Canwell | British...
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    Monastery Scheduled Monument List of Scheduled Ancient Monuments Greenslade, M.W. (1990), A History of the County of Stafford: Volume XIV: Lichfield, Victoria...
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  • Baswich Priory was a priory in Staffordshire, England. v t e v t e...
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    White Ladies Priory (often Whiteladies Priory), once the Priory of St Leonard at Brewood, was an English priory of Augustinian canonesses, now in ruins...
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    Sandwell Priory was a small medieval Benedictine monastery, near West Bromwich, then part of Staffordshire, England. It was founded in the late 12th century...
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    St Peter". A History of the County of Stafford. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 16 April 2014. Denton 1970, p. 116. Blight, John Thomas (1885)...
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  • Heritage: Tutbury Priory O. Mosley, History of the Castle, Priory, and Town of Tutbury, in the County of Stafford, 1832 N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire...
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  • Saltman (1970). "House of Knights Templar: The preceptory of Keele". A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 3. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved...
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    "Church of St Thomas the Martyr, Bristol". Churches Conservation Trust. Retrieved 13 December 2011. "St Thomas the Martyr, Oxford". A Church Near You. Archived...
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    Abbey Hulton (category Areas of Stoke-on-Trent)
    was held by Robert of Stafford. Henry de Aldithley (or Audley) endowed the Cistercian Abbey of St. Mary at Hulton, near the site of Heighley Castle in...
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    Breadsall Priory was sued by the Collegiate Church of St Mary in Leicester, over the tithes of a field called "Hethfield", near Mugginton. St Mary's argued...
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  • Saltman (1970). "Houses of Cistercian monks: The abbey of Radmore". A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 3. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved...
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    Royal Oak (category Charles II of England)
    safe houses of White Ladies Priory and Boscobel House. Initially, Charles was led to White Ladies Priory by Charles Giffard, a cousin of the owner, and...
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  • St Dominic's Priory School is an independent Catholic day school in the town of Stone, Staffordshire, halfway between Stoke-on-Trent and Stafford. The...
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