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Abbey land
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Augmentation
(now abolished) erected by 27 hen. 8, c. 27, to determine suits and controversies relating to monasteries and abbey-lands, Termes de la Ley.
Abbas
Abbas [fr. 'stuarium, Lat.] (Anglo-Saxon) singly or in conjunction, the site of an abbey or land belonging to one. For instance, Cerne Abbas in Dorsetshire (from Crem, Anglo-Saxon, a cheese, indicating a
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Magna Carta
The 31st, 32nd, and 33rd chapters, relating to the royal escheat, the lord's services, and the patronage of abbeys, have been entirely superseded; as also has the 34th chapter, which provided that no man should be taken … of an infant heir of an earl, baron, or knight; chapter four prohibited the guardian from wasting the lands of his ward, and from destroying his tenants, a plain indication of the wretched condition of the serfs
Commandery
given to Henry the Eighth by 32 Hen. 8, c. 20, about the time of the dissolution of abbeys and monasteries; so that the name only of commanderies remains, the power being long since extinct. … Commandery, a manor or chief messuage with lands and tenements thereto appertaining, which belonged to the priority of St. John of Jerusalem, in England; he who
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