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A History of the County of Gloucester
… Confessor divided those possessions between the abbeys of St. Denis in Paris and St. Peter in Westminster, 1 Westminster Abbey got the whole … parts of Deerhurst, Leigh, and Tirley, belonged to St. Denis. 6 The 119 hides listed in Domesday as making up …
Old and New London
… appear to have been a school attached to the Abbey of St. Peter's from its first foundation. Under the system which … but in such abbey churches as those of Glastonbury, St. Albans, and Westminster. Accordingly we find that the Abbey of St. Peter's had not been very long in existence before …
Old and New London
… Indeed, it has often been said that, with the exception of St. James's, Buckingham Palace is the ugliest royal residence … monarchy in the world. It fronts the western end of St. James's Park, which here converges to a narrow point; the … Aston, the superintendence of "the Mulberry Garden, near St. James's;" but all Lord Aston's efforts were unable to …
Old and New London
… must have taken its name from the noble Abbey Church of St. Peter's, the "Minster" in the "West," as doubtless it was … by the preaching of Melitus, one of the companions of St. Augustine, the Roman missionary, is by some writers said … to have erected on its site a church which he dedicated to St. Peter. As Ethelbert died in A.D. 606, and Sebert followed …
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857
… statute 31 Hen. VIII c. 9, when the former monastery of St. Peter, Westminster, was reconstituted as a cathedral … Elizabeth I founded 'the college or collegiate church of St. Peter, Westminster ... on the site of the monastery of … cathedral' was replaced by 'the collegiate church St. Peter, Westminster', but already by 1579 the expression …
Old and New London
… Westminster King St, Great George St and the Broad Sanctuary CHAPTER III. WESTMINSTER.KING … door of the lodgings of the canons or prebendaries, in St. Margaret's Churchyard. Mrs. Cromwell appears to have been …
Old and New London
… altered." Goldsmith. Great Smith StreetSt. Margaret's and St. John's Free Public LibraryPublic Baths and … was a turnpike in Smith Street. In Great Smith Street is St. Margaret's and St. John's Free Public Library, and also the Public Baths and …
Old and New London
… Westminster St. James's Park CHAPTER V. ST. JAMES'S PARK. "A spark That less admires the Palace than … WaterfowlWoodcocks and SnipesHistorical Associations of St. James's ParkCromwell and WhitelockOliver GoldsmithPeace …
Old and New London
… were interred; for in the accounts of the churchwardens of St. Margaret's, Westminster, there is the payment of "thirty … place here; and the three days' fair, held in honour of St. Edward, was not finally discontinued till some time … held, in ancient times, Westminster Fair, locally named "St. Magdalen's," or "Magdalen's," from the day on which it …