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Old and New London
… was the chapel of King Offa, the founder of St. Alban's Abbey, who had a palace near it. Stow says it was of great … that Collegiate Church, with its appendages, to the Abbey of Westminster. In 1553 Queen Mary gave it to the …
Old and New London
… Eleanor of Castile, on its way from Lincoln to Westminster Abbey, stood in the middle of the road facing Wood Street. It …
Unpublished London Diaries
… lectures, skating, swimming and other leisure activities. Waltham Forest ALSL L 96 Hoon 1 478. 1879 JONES, David, of … to Chingford via Leytonstone, and walk in Epping Forest. Waltham Forest ALSL Acc 10270 495. 1882 RAMSAY, Robert … London section describes sightseeing trips to Westminster Abbey, St Paul's cathedral, Parliament, the docks, museums …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Catholic chapel. The township having been annexed to the abbey at Hexham, it is free from large tithes: the vicarial … with King John for other lands: it was next given to the abbey of Feschamp, in Normandy, and subsequently to the …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7
… Mead in Gothurst, a meadow that was sold to Winchcombe Abbey in 1265, 40 has been identified, on what evidence is … the Hwicce, granted 15 cassati at Chedworth to Gloucester Abbey. The grant was confirmed by King Burgred of Mercia in 872 73 but the land had been lost to the abbey by the reign of Edward the Confessor when it was held …
Old and New London
… it appears to have been one of the manors belonging to the abbey of St. Peter. Little, however, is known with certainty … a starved cat, found between the walls of Westminster Abbey when the east end was repaired; the jaws of a wild boar …
Survey of London
… new parish church it was commonly called St. Luke's. The Abbey of Westminster claimed the manor by virtue of a charter …
Survey of London
… and closely resembles that of Chaucer in Westminster Abbey, erected by Brigham in 1556. It originally consisted of …
The Environs of London
… or Chelcheya, which he held of the King, to Westminster-Abbey; and that the grant was afterwards renewed by William … which he gives in another place. History of Westminster-Abbey, vol. i. p. 20. This charter, which is in the Saxon … Prfeccus Palatinus.Hickes. History of Westminster-Abbey, vol. i. p. 23. Harl. MSS. No. 6281. Esch. 18 Edw. III. …
The Environs of London
… in the county of Cornwall, Ap. 9, 1689, in Westminster-abbey. The following entry would lead one to suppose that she …