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A History of the County of Middlesex
… had been given by Athelstan to the cathedral church of St. Paul, and the date 939 has been given for this grant. … possession by about 1000, when West Drayton supplied one of a number of 'shipmen' for a muster drawn from estates in … are recorded from 1744, when Sir William Irby, later Lord Boston, was admitted to 'the house formerly occupied by Lady …
A History of the County of Essex
… Ham Churches CHURCHES. During the Middle Ages the parish of All Saints included the whole of West Ham except the precincts of Stratford Abbey, which … College. This grew into the dockland settlement, now the Mayflower family centre. 156 Its church was rebuilt in 1930 …
A History of the County of Essex
… providing elementary schools. 1 After the formation of the school board (1871) other needs became more pressing. … Mansfield House and Dockland Settlement No. 1, later the Mayflower Family Centre. The Young Men's Christian … and premises for the citizens' advice bureau. 38 The Mayflower family centre, Cooper and Vincent Streets, Canning …
Old and New London
… Cathedral fane in silence bound." Whitehead's "Legends of London." Etymology of WestminsterA Startling PropositionThe Legend of St. … 153940, this Abbey was surrendered to Henry VIII. by Abbot Boston and twenty-four of the monks, and immediately …
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857
… ten years. Henry VIII established it by letters patent of 17 December 1540, in accordance with the statute 31 Hen. VIII c. 9, when the former monastery of St. Peter, Westminster, was reconstituted as a cathedral … was named as the first bishop. The dean, William Benson or Boston, had been abbot of Westminster before the Dissolution, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WESTONING ( St. Mary Magdalene), a parish, in the union of Ampthill, hundred of Manshead, county of Bedford, 4 miles (S. by W.) from … West-Ville WEST-VILLE, a township, in the union of Boston, W. division of the soke of Bolingbroke, parts of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Mary) WHADDON ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Winslow, hundred of Cottesloe, county of Buckingham, 4 miles (S. by E.) from … alternately: here is the vault of the Irby family, lords Boston. Elisha and Frances Wilson, in 1708, gave land …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Mary) WHICHAM ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Bootle, Allerdale ward above Derwent, W. division of Cumberland, 10 miles (S. S. E.) from Ravenglass; … king's books at 14. 11. 0., and in the patronage of Lord Boston: the tithes have been commuted for 250, and there are …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… that the war has done us (the engravers) a great deal of harm, but we would not have a bad peace on account of that. Showery and warm. 2nd. Went to Soho Sq.; drew … of the Illustrated London News, has put up for the boro of Boston for M.P. There are doubts as to whether he can read …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Germans) WIGGENHALL ( St. Germans), a parish, in the union of Downham, hundred of Freebridge-Marshland, W. division of Norfolk, 4 miles (S. … ( St. Peter and St. Paul), a parish, in the union of Boston, wapentake of Kirton, parts of Holland, county of …