A compleat history of Middlesex ... To which is added a ... description of the cities of London and Westminster.

Date:
1730
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Credit: A compleat history of Middlesex ... To which is added a ... description of the cities of London and Westminster. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Land, Patcel of the Poflcflions of Sir Thomas the Deceived but eflablidi the Timorous and Moor, attainted, to William Pawlet, Lord St. Doubting in the Do&rines held by the Prc- John, Great Matter of the King’s Houfiiold, teftant Churches. To this godly Ddigu as alio certain Lands and Tenements, Part King James hlmfelf gave the fird Encou- in this Parifh, and Part in Kenfington, Parcel ragement, by incorporating the incended of the fame PofTeffions. Sir Arthur Gorges of Foundation by the Name of KING jAMES's-. this Pa! ilh was eminent for his Head) Loyal- C OLLEGE, in Chelfey, and having appoint- ty to King Charles I. His Edate wasftque* ted the firft Proved and Fellows, viz. dered, and he was obliged, to pay $ 12 l. to the Parliament to redeem it. The Parifh- Matthew Sutcliff] Dean of Exeter, Provpft. Church here (which is dedicated to St. Luke) John Overal, Dean of St. Pauls. is a Rt&ory, and was formerly in the Gift Thomas Norton, Dean of Wmchefier. of the Abbey and Convent of Wcfiminfier, Richard Field, Dean of Gloucejhr, as it continued till the SupprelTion, when it Robert Abbot, 1 was feizt’d by King Henry VIII. and remain- John Spencer, ed in the Crown till Queen Elizabeth difpo- Miles Smith, fed of it to the Duke of Sowerfet, whole Fa- William Covitt, mily alienated it to the Ear I of Nottingham, John Howfon, and his Countefs, of the Family of the How- John Lay field, ards : but (Ince the Refforation it has been BenjaminCh:rri rt I Martin Fatherly, John Boys, Richard Bret, Piter Lilly, Francis Burley, William Hellier, KDo&ors of Divinitv, 1 j Archdeacon of Birnftalle* in the Gift of the Cheneys, and the Loid Cheney is now Patron. Among the Reftors of this Parifh, we find Robert Richardfon, who was ejefted in Queen Mary's Reign, 15 y4, for being a mar¬ ried Pried; but upon the Accdlion of Queen Elizabeth, he was redored, as appears John White, Fellow of Maticfieffir College, by a Deed, dated 1566, between him, as Re- William Cambden, Clarenceux, 7 iya dfor of this Church, and the Marquis of John Haywood, D'b&or of La w, S 1 jJ^01 ians’ Winchefier, for the Exchange of the Patro¬ nage, and about feventeen Acres of Land He endowed the fame by his Letters Pa- for eighteen Acres, and a new Houfe fitu- tents, with the Reversion of certain Lands ate upon a Piece of Ground, eighty Foot In Chelfey (then under Leafe to Charles Earl wide, and 380 Foot long ; which Deed was of Nottingham, in which was thirty Years to confirmed by Edmund Grtndal, then Bifhop come) and gave it a Capacity to receive of of London. his loving Subjects any Lands, not exceed- But the mod remarkable Thing in this ing in the whole the yearly Value of 5000 l. Town is, Chelfey-College, projedied, ard in and becaufe it was thought by many judici- fome Meafure endowed, by King James I. ous Men, that ro biing Water into the City Reg, j. out of a zealous Care for upholding of London would produce a great and lading the true Religion, and defending it againd Revenue , the fame King procured an AQ: all Heretical and Schifmacical Oppofers. of Parliament to enable the Corporation of The Intention of ert&ing it was this, Tint the Proved and Fellows of Chefy College to a certain Number of mod Earned and god- bring Water from the River Lea thro* any ly Divines, fhould therein be liberally Man’s Ground (paying them for Damage.1 j maintained and fupplied, not only with to the City or l bnden. all necelfary Conveniences of Life, but plen- Having thus laid the Ground-work for a tifully furnifhed with Books, and exempted College, the next Thing was to expedite from all other Secular or EccJefiadrGa! Em- the Building ; and to that End the Proved ployments, that by dudying all Controver- and Fellowshaving agreed with the Earl of fial Points, efpecially rhofe in Confed be- Nottingham for the Term of his Leafe, at tween the Church of England and Papids, 7 I. tor. a.Year, King Janus himfelf laid they might be able not only to convince the firdStone thereof in a Piece of Ground o£
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