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A New History of London
… year 1322: when Henry VIII. after the dissolution of the monastery, erected Westminster into a bishopric, he conferred …
A New History of London
… St. Bartholomew the Great; antiently an appendage to the monastery of St. Bartholomew lately mentioned, for the … probability was antiently in the prior and canons of the monastery, is now in private hands 14. That large open spot …
A New History of London
… convent, in which it continued till the dissolution of the monastery. Queen Elizabeth, in the year 1560, granted the …
A New History of London
… and convent of Westminster, till the suppression of their monastery; when coming to the crown, queen Mary, in the year …
A New History of London
… in whom it continued till the dissolution of their monastery; when coming to the crown, Henry VIII. in the year …
A New History of London
… our kings 3. This church was granted by Henry VII. to the monastery of St. Peter Westminster, after which the abbots of …
A New History of London
… from its dedication to Mildred, a Saxon saint, abbess of a monastery on the isle of Thanet, and daughter to a prince of …
A New History of London
… the spot for the celebration of divine service until their monastery could be rebuilt. In the year 1215, this hospital, …
A New History of London
… so it derived its name from this relative situation of the monastery, and was called Westmonasterium, Westminster. It … it. In process of time a few houses collected round the monastery, which at length became a town: and this was the … stone bridge across the river existed. By having a large monastery, a royal palace, and by having been made a staple …