Nichols, John Gough, 1806-1873 · London : John Bowyer Nichols and Sons · leaf 141
. In 18 Hen. VIII.there remained only the prioress, one professed nun, and one lay sister ;nine years later, the nun was recently deceased, the prioress had diedthe year before, and the lay-sister had gone away, leaving the placedeserted. The house accordingly escheated to the Crown, without… … Fulke de Newenham, Argent, a cross gules, surmounted by a bendletazure, with the addition of a crozier in pale argent, garnished or, andthe initial letter D in the sinister chief sable. A lease of Davington Priory for ninety-nine years was granted in1536 to Sir Thomas Cheney, who ten years later…
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