Catalogue description TETBURY AND HAZLETON (GLOS.)

During the civil war of Stephen's reign the monks of Kingswood purchased from John de St. John at Hazleton land for a new site, which had belonged to Reginald de St. Valery and had been confiscated by Stephen. They settled there for a short while but c. 1147 St. Valery recovered the lands and drove the monks out. They moved back to Kingswood and pursued their dispute with St. Valery until eventually they returned to Hazleton, but they found that they were short of water there and St. Valery moved them on to Tetbury. [VCH Glos. ii. 100.] By 1307 the abbey had granted a rent of £10 in Hazleton and Culkerton to St. Peter's Abbey, Gloucester, in exchange for the advowsons of Ozleworth and Newington: above, BCM/F/1/5/37 [SC 474].