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Aspects of Markenfield 1: Piety & Partridges by William Barber
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The text of a talk given in December 2007 concerning the historical link between Fountains Abbey and Markenfield Hall 1132 to 1539.
This talk, which I have entitled Piety and Partridges – for reasons which I hope will become clear during the next twenty minutes or so – is about the relationship between the owners of the Markenfield estate and the monks of Fountains Abbey from the mid 12th century to November, 1539 when that house was dissolved. It is based on information to be found in the few remnants that survive from the Markenfield papers, and the more plentiful, but still fragmentary, abbey records, the earliest of which are the monastic charters recording donations of land and other resources to the house during the first two centuries of its existence…
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