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	Houses of Austin canons: The abbey of Medmenham \| British History Online
		Houses of Austin canons: The abbey of Medmenham
		Citation: 'Houses of Austin canons: The abbey of Medmenham', A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 1 (1905), pp.
		The little abbey of Medmenham was founded in 1204 upon lands granted to the abbey of Woburn, Bedfordshire, by Isabel de Bolebec, Countess of Oxford.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=40312 (468 words)

	Medmenham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There was a Cistercian abbey founded in Medmenham in the 12th century, under the ownership of Woburn Abbey, though it was not officially recognised by royal charter until 1200.
		In 1547 at the Dissolution of the Monasteries the abbey was seized and given to the Moore family, and then sold privately to the Duffields.
		Medmenham, however, is an attractive, prosperous village on the banks of the Thames.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Medmenham (270 words)

	Medmenham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Medmenham Abbey, Medmenham, Buckinghamshire Medmenham Abbey, Medmenham, Buckinghamshire The exterior of the abbey house from the east, once a Cistercian house founded in the early 13th century.
		Medmenham Abbey, Medmenham, Buckinghamshire Medmenham Abbey, Medmenham, Buckinghamshire The exterior of the abbey ruins from the south-east, once a Cistercian house founded in the early 13th century.
		Medmenham Abbey, Medmenham, Buckinghamshire Medmenham Abbey, Medmenham, Buckinghamshire The ruins of the abbey, founded as a Cistercian monastery in the 13th century and converted into a dwelling in 1569, taken across the River Thames.
	thefatduckbray.monsduck.com /medmenham (965 words)

	Medmenham
		There was a Cistercian abbey founded in Medmenham in the Twelfth century, under the ownership of Woburn Abbey, though it was not officially recognised by royal charter until 1200.
		It was while in the possession of the Duffields that the abbey became infamous as the location of The Hellfire Club.
		Medmenham, however, is a prosperous village on the banks of the Thames attractive with many executives who work in London and the nearby towns of Maidenhead and Reading.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/m/me/medmenham.html (244 words)

	Parishes: Medmenham \| British History Online
		Medmenham is a parish with an area of 2,442½ acres, including 512½ acres of arable land, 1,197 acres of permanent grass and 150 acres of woods and plantations.
		Medmenham Abbey, on the site of the Cistercian abbey of St. Mary, is beautifully situated on the Thames a quarter of a mile south of the village.
		Medmenham Abbey owned lands known from the later 18th century as the DANESFIELD estate in this parish, originally granted in Stephen's reign by Hugh de Bolebec to the Cistercian monks of Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire, for the foundation of a branch house.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=42533 (4504 words)

	Abbeys
		The first endowment made for the establishment of a colony at Medmenham was made by Hugh de Bolebec in 1201.
		The abbey did not receive many endowments and thus could never support a community of more than six or seven monks.
		There is very little left of the complex today, apart from one thirteenth-century quatrefoil-shaped pier from the church and what may be part of the walling of the west range.
	cistercians.shef.ac.uk /abbeys/medmenham.php (335 words)

	Medmenham
		War memorials in Medmenham have been transcribed by Peter Quick and published by the Buckinghamshire Genealogical Society.
		At this place was an abbey of Cistercian monks, founded by Hugh de Bolebec, as a cell to the larger monastery at Woburn, which was also of his foundation.
		The manor of Brock, or Medmenham, which was retained by the founder, passed by female heirs to the families of Vere, Warren, Fitz-alan and Beauchamp.
	met.open.ac.uk /genuki/big/eng/BKM/Medmenham/index.html (965 words)

	abbey, village, church, Category, three, Monks - Medmenham
		There was a Cistercian abbey founded in Medmenham in the 12th century, under the ownership of Woburn Abbey, though it was not officially recognised by royal charter until 1200.
		In 1547 at the Dissolution of the Monasteries the abbey was seized and given to the Moore family, and then sold privately to the Duffields.
		Medmenham, however, is an attractive, prosperous village on the banks of the Thames.
	www.alphasearch.org /Medmenham.html (335 words)

	Medmenham, Buckinghamshire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Medmenham is amongst the oldest villages in England, and was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086.
		The ruins of the abbey were the meeting place of the Monks of Medmenham, otherwise known as the Hell Fire Club.
		The ruined abbey was partly restored with many erotic statues and paintings, and chalk caves under West Wycombe were also used by the club.
	www.rootsweb.com /~indwgw/minty/locations/stonehouse.htm (348 words)

	Hell, no damnation
		From then on, the former Cistercian abbey would be home to the Hellfire club, where they would meet, apparently all dressed in a white hat, white jacket and white trousers, whilst the Prior – Dashwood – himself had a red hat and a red bonnet.
		Medmenham or the caves – with only the number 22 and 34 as “decoration” – are not the only constructions that incorporate aspects of Dashwood’s vision.
		Eventually, the lease on the abbey was not renewed in 1777, whereby the last meeting of the club is believed to have been held in 1774.
	www.philipcoppens.com /hellfire.html (2679 words)

	The Hellfire Club
		The Hellfire Club was an English 18th century club of upper-class libertines, run by Sir Francis Dashwood[?].
		They held notorious meetings at Medmenham Abbey[?], beside the Thames.
		The name appear to have been picked up by comic books, the Hellfire Club being another one of the X-Men's enemies, this group of evil mutants has been around for at least a 2 hundred years.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/th/The_Hellfire_Club.html (63 words)

	www.easupernatural.com Ghosts, Occult Studies and the Unexplained (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Two of the statues within the Abbey, "the guardians of secrecy" were to remind the Knights, or Monks as they now came to be called, to keep all what took place within the Abbey walls a secret.
		Medmenham Abbey would be filled with drunkenness and debauchery, Satanism and the practice of Black Magick.
		As in the Abbey, the Nuns fulfilled the needs of Dashwood and his Monks, and within the inner temple, rituals, rites and the Black Mass took place.
	www.easupernatural.com /francisdashwood.htm (1495 words)

	Abbeys and priories in England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Abbeys and priories in England is a link page for any abbey, priory, friary or other monastic religious house in England.
		The Abbey Church of Saint Mary and Saint Helena, Elstow
		The Abbey Church of Saint Werburgh, Chester The Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary, Chester (1541)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abbeys_and_priories_in_England (1921 words)

	LCD Bucks - Medmenham - Medmenham Abbey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The grounds of Medmenham Abbey are haunted by a phantom woman wearing a light blue or grey gown.
		The abbey itself is said to be haunted by the ghost of a maid.
		Medmenham Abbey was once used by Sir Francis Dashwood as the first meeting place for his notorious Hellfire Club.
	www.lcdonline.co.uk /html/medmenham_abbey.html (122 words)

	Regional - Europe - United Kingdom - England - Buckinghamshire - Medmenham
		Medmenham is a village and parish situated on the north bank of the Thames approx.
		The Medmenham Monks - Resume of the use of Medmenham Abbey by the 'Hell-Fire Club' in the late 18th century.
		RAF Medmenham - Describes the World War II use of Danesfield House as a centre of excellence in the interpretation of images.
	www.inter.co.yu /kategorije/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/England/Buckinghamshire/Medmenham (454 words)

	Burke's Backyard Archives 1997 - Medmenham Abbey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Medmenham Abbey is situated on the Thames at High Wycombe and the garden is full of hedges and topiarised plants that are trimmed into all sorts of shapes.
		One time owner of Medmenham Abbey was Sir Francis Dashwood who established one of the infamous Hellfire Clubs, known as the Medmenham Club.
		Medmenham Abbey is on the banks of the Thames in High Wycombe.
	www.burkesbackyard.com.au /1997/archives/27/people_and_places/medmenham_abbey (380 words)

	Medmenham Abbey
		Medmenham Abbey as it stands at present, is, architecturally, but a bogus affair, and except an ancient archway and a single pillar of the church, there is little of the ancient Abbey to be found in the present edifice.
		Late in the afternoon we passed Medmenham Abbey. That bête noir of self-restrained respectability in the 18th century is now a strikingly neat reformed appearing ruin and is probably trying to atone for the wildly defiant orgies of its past.
		Medmenham monks, of the Cistercian order and of the Hell-fire Club, were alike in this: whatsoever their hands found to do, they did it with their might; they were no less great in vice than in virtue.
	thames.me.uk /s00860.htm (1390 words)

	The Hell-Fire Club, Masonic Deism, Dashwood, Franklin, and the Black Mass
		Most of the contemporary writers who allude to "Saint Francis" and his "Brotherhood" at Medmenham Abbey had an ax to grind, and the Monks themselves were so secretive that some modern historians have concluded that the whole thing was mere fiction.
		Although the Medmenham Monks are the most famous band to be dignified with the appellation, they were certainly not the original Hell-Fire Club.
		The abbey's library was said to contain an enviable collection of erotica, although the only volumes it is specifically known to have contained are a Latin Bible published in 1714, a hagiography, and a copy of Conjecture Cabalistica.
	www.freemasonrywatch.org /hellfire.html (3894 words)

	Photograph of Medmenham, the Abbey 1890
		Medmenham was a beautiful posting and a happy place.
		I know I was doing my bit for my country at the time but Medmenham will always be in my memory because of the great friends I made at the RAF station.
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	www.francisfrith.com /search/england/buckinghamshire/medmenham/photos/medmenham_23715.htm (288 words)

	Searching the Thames: Hambleden
		When Charles II crossed the river at Medmenham in 1678 it will have been by means of ferry, this being the site of one of two such that plied the river hereabouts until relatively recently.
		We choose Hambleden, where the sound of meadow pipits larking it up in the fields is soon drowned by the tons of water cascading deafeningly down a welter of terraces and a long string of walkways conducts one through that intoxicating smell of water crashing through air.
		By the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII there were only the abbot and one monk left at Medmenham, and the abbey passed into the hands of the Duffield family.
	www.thames-search.com /hambleden.html (642 words)

	PEHI - Bohemian Grove
		The Friars met at Medmenham Abbey, a ruin that Dashwood had rebuilt and furnished with creature comforts, including one of the largest collections of pornography in the country.
		A motto from Rabelais' fictional Abbey of Theleme was inscribed over the main entrance and translated as "do what you will".
		Amenable women were shipped up the Thames by barge for the revels at Medmenham, which went on twice a month for nearly 20 years.
	home.planet.nl /~reijd050/organisations/grove/Symbolism/2002_09_09_The_Age_Dashwood_Bacchus.htm (685 words)

	Hellfire Club - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During the time of the club's operation, they were commonly thought to hold notorious, orgiastic and satanic meetings at Medmenham Abbey, beside the Thames.
		The term was not invented by the 1750 club; they first met to celebrate an earlier club founded in 1720 by Charles Edward.
		Despite this and the factionalising of the club Dashwood acquired the ruins of Medmenham Abbey in 1755, which was rebuilt by the architect Nicholas Revett in the style of the 18th century Gothic revival.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Hellfire_Club (1027 words)

	Chapter Marlow--Bisham Abbey of Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
		Grand old Bisham Abbey, whose stone walls have rung to the shouts of the Knights Templars, and which, at one time, was the home of Anne of Cleves and at another of Queen Elizabeth, is passed on the right bank just half a mile above Marlow bridge.
		The famous Medmenham monks, or ‘Hell Fire Club,’ as they were commonly called, and of whom the notorious Wilkes was a member, were a fraternity whose motto was ‘Do as you please,’ and that invitation still stands over the ruined doorway of the abbey.
		Many years before this bogus abbey, with its congregation of irreverent jesters, was founded, there stood upon this same spot a monastery of a sterner kind, whose monks were of a somewhat different type to the revellers that were to follow them, five hundred years afterwards.
	www.bibliomania.com /0/0/222/2445/28356/1.html (599 words)

	The Early Catholic Martyrs
		Then it was the turn of the larger establishments: Thame Abbey, the friary at Donnington near Newbury and a series of religious houses on or near the Thames - Godstow and Osney abbeys, the friaries and monastic colleges at Oxford, the great Abingdon Abbey and the friary at Reading.
		North of St Laurence's Church, which stood at the abbey's west gateway, is an intact flint-built remnant of the Hospitium of St John the Baptist.
		There is an useful plan of the abbey on the north wall of the Abbey Gateway, which helps to relate the former structures to present-day buildings.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~hadland/tvp/tvp4.htm (3162 words)

	Electronic Music News, MP3s, Community, Collaboration and Store (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Medmenham Monks - - Resume of the use of Medmenham Abbey by the 'Hell-Fire Club' in the late 18th century.
		Medmenham Parish Council - - Resume of village history, clubs and oganisations and council meetings.
		RAF Medmenham - - Describes the World War II use of Danesfield House as a centre of excellence in the interpretation of images.
	www.internetdj.com /search/search.php?browse=/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/England/Buckinghamshire/Medmenham (206 words)

	The 'Hell Fire Club' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The caves crossed a stream of water known as the 'River Styx', a reference to the Greek mythological river of Hades, over which the souls of the dead were ferried by Charon.
		Medmenham Abbey is situated on the River Thames between Hambleden and Hurley Locks.
		Members of the club included Sir Francis Dashwood, the Earl of Sandwich, Thomas Potter (the son of the Archbishop of Canterbury), John Wilkes, William Hogarth, the Earl of Bute, the Marquis of Granby, the Prince of Wales, and possibly Benjamin Franklin and Horace Walpole.
	www.victorianweb.org /history/pms/hellfire.html (446 words)

	River Thames and boaty things
		It was built in the 12th century as a preceptory (a subordinate community of the Knights Templar) but became an Augustine Priory and then a Benedictine Abbey and is one of the important religious buildings along the Thames.
		Medmenham Abbey, situated between Hambleden and Hurley Locks, was founded by the Cistercian Order in 1200.
		At the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries, Medmenham passed into the hands of the Duffield Family.
	www.the-river-thames.co.uk /misc.htm (1661 words)

	§5. Wilkes and "The North Briton". XVII. Political Literature. Vol. 10. The Age of Johnson. The Cambridge History ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A separation from his wife was arranged, and he plunged into a course of profligate living in town.
		He became a member of the Hellfire club, which met at Medmenham abbey and included the most noted rakes of the day.
		It was in the midst of these wild orgies that he took up politics.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/220/1705.html (715 words)

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