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    Flaxley Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in England, now a Grade I listed English country house and private residence, near the village of Flaxley...
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    Flaxley is a small settlement and former civil parish, now in the parish of Blaisdon, in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England. It is located in...
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  • (1201 Waverley) Flaxley Abbey, Gloucestershire, England (1151 Waverley) Forde Abbey, Dorset, England (1136 Waverley) Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire...
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    Winchcombe Abbey is a now-vanished Benedictine abbey in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire; this abbey was once in the heart of Mercia, an Anglo Saxon kingdom...
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    The Abbey Church of St Mary the Virgin, Tewkesbury, commonly known as Tewkesbury Abbey, is located in the town of Tewkesbury in the ceremonial county of...
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    William Boevey (1667–1692), who in the previous year 1683 had inherited Flaxley Abbey, Gloucestershire, from his first cousin Abraham II Clark (1622–1683)...
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    the Alps very fine". With his half-brother William, Boevey purchased Flaxley Abbey in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. In 1653 he purchased from Cromwell's...
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    Berkeley Abbey (poss.) Brimpsfield Priory Cheltenham Minster Cirencester Abbey Daylesford Monastery (approx.) Deerhurst Abbey Farmcote Grange Flaxley Abbey GLOUCESTER...
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    Prinknash Abbey (pronounced locally variously as "Prinidge/Prinnish") (IPA: /ˈprɪnɪdʒ/) is a Roman Catholic monastery in the Vale of Gloucester in the...
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  • buildings and archeological sites in the British Empire including books on Flaxley Abbey. As a civil servant, he became the Acting Chief Presidency Magistrate...
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    grandfather Thomas Crawley had on inheriting Flaxley Abbey in 1726 assumed the additional surname of Boevey. Flaxley Abbey had been purchased in 1648 by the merchant...
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    Hailes Abbey is a former Cistercian abbey, in the small village of Hailes, two miles northeast of Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, England. It was founded...
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    protect his royal rights, and local people were given some common rights. Flaxley Abbey was built and given rights and privileges. In 1296, miners from the...
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  • Cirencester Abbey was an abbey, dedicated to St Mary, in Cirencester, Gloucestershire. It was founded as an Augustinian monastery in 1117 on the site of...
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    grants, and on the dissolution of monasteries received the site of the Flaxley Abbey, Gloucestershire. He died at Painswick, Gloucestershire, on 14 September...
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    daughter of William Boevey (d. 1661), a merchant of Dutch ancestry, of Flaxley Abbey, Gloucestershire, brother of the merchant, lawyer, philosopher and pioneering...
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    of Flaxley lies in the valley to the immediate north. Pope's Hill is said to have got its name from Mary Pope, who used to reside in Flaxley Abbey in...
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    during the English Civil War and largely demolished in 1643. St Peter's Abbey had been founded in Gloucester about 679 by Osric, ruler of the Hwicce,...
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  • High Grove 3 February 1808: Sir Thomas Crawley-Boevey, 3rd Baronet, of Flaxley Abbey 6 February 1809: John Hodder Moggridge, of Dymock 31 January 1810: Paul...
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    and his wife Mary Boevey, daughter of William Boevey (died 1661), of Flaxley Abbey, Gloucestershire. The Boevey family was of Netherlandish Huguenot descent...
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    Patres Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ; Crawley-Boevey, Arthur William, Cartulary of Flaxley Abbey; Ellis, A. S. (1879–1880). "On the Landholders of Gloucestershire named...
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  • warnings, formally excommunicated. Subsequently, however, he founded Flaxley Abbey, a Cistercian house, within the Forest of Dean, possibly on the spot...
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    Barnsley Park, Cirencester, Gloucestershire Burghill Court, Herefordshire Flaxley Abbey, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire Forthampton Court, Gloucestershire...
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    Priory Cistercian Farmcote Grange Flaxley Abbey Hailes Abbey Hazleton Abbey Kingswood Abbey St Briavels Chantry Tetbury Abbey Crutched Friars Wotton under...
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    building. Before the dissolution of the monasteries the parish belonged to Flaxley Abbey in Gloucestershire. In 1537 the land and manor were granted to Sir William...
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  • monasteries in Gloucestershire, including a regrant of the site of Flaxley Abbey. He was appointed High Sheriff of Gloucestershire for 1533–34 and 1550–51...
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  • mostly out of print. Sybella Mary Crawley-Boevey was born in 1851 at Flaxley Abbey, Gloucestershire, the youngest daughter of Sir Martin Hyde Crawley-Boevey...
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  • Hazleton Abbey was an abbey at Hazleton in Gloucestershire, England. It was formed in the 12th century. Monks from Kingswood Abbey bought the land after...
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    William Hartley Carnegie (category Burials at Westminster Abbey)
    Crawley-Boevey, daughter of Sir Thomas Hyde Crawley-Boevey, 5th Baronet of Flaxley Abbey and Frances Elizabeth Peters. The couple had five daughters, Frances...
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    1705. Impetus may have been provided by the canal garden nearby at Flaxley Abbey, which was the seat of Colchester's close friend Catharina Boevey, the...
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