A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland: Showing how that Event Has Impoverished the Main Body of the People in Those Countries, and Containing a List of the Abbeys, Priories, Nunneries, Hospitals, and Other Religious Foundations in England, and Wales, and Ireland, Confiscated, Seized On, Or Alienated, by the Prot Stant (sic, in V.1 Only) "reformation" Sovreigns and Parliaments, Volume 2

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Page 9 - CLONFEAKLE, that is, the Church of the Tooth, so named from a tooth of St. Patrick, which was preserved here ; is now the Protestant place of worship; five miles from Armagh. At KILMORE. AChurch founded, by St. Mochtee ; now the Protestant place of worship ; three miles from Armagh. At KILSLERE. A Franciscan Monastery. Thomas Ornay was superior in the year 1457.
Page 13 - ... places. All the monasteries were in effect great hospitals ; and were most of them obliged to relieve many poor people every day. They were likewise houses of entertainment for almost all travellers.
Page 11 - Lugg ; valued at 23/. 17s. 8d. yearly, now worth 477/. 13s. 4d. ; granted, 7 Edw. VI., to John West and Robert Gratwick. At WIGMORE. An Augustine Monastery, founded, in the year 1100, by Ralph de Mortimer ; but, for want of water and convenience, shifted up and down, and finally...
Page 16 - Elhelstan, for seven Priests, to pray for the souls of those who were slain in a battle which he fought against the Danes, at Bremaldown, near this place.

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