Preface

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Chapter I.—Abbey Lands.—Fabulous story of Edgar’s grant; Forged Charters of Edgar and Dunstan; the Dom Boc or Domesday Book; the Middlesex Forest and its Rivers—the Fleete, the Tybourn, and the Brent; Tybourn and Westbourn the same streams; Site of Paddington; Roman Roads; Concord between the Abbot of Westminster and Richard and William of Paddington; the Abbot Walter’s Anniversary and its Modification; Probable origin of the term “Bread and Cheese Lands;” Mode of dispensing the proceeds of Abbey Lands in the 12th and 13th Centuries; the Ecclesiastical Taxation of Pope Nicholas; the whole of the Temporalities of Paddington given in Charity

1–19

Chapter II.—The Manors of Westbourn and Paddington.—Definition of the word Manor; neither Westbourn nor Paddington mentioned in Domesday; Probably included in the Manor of Tybourn; Quo Warranto respecting them; Walter of Wenlock fined for acquiring lands here without the licence of the King; three Inquisitiones ad quod Damnum tempus Edward Second; Grant of a head of water to the Mayor and Citizens of London

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Chapter III.—The Possessions of the Church, the Crown and the People.—Division of the ancient Manor of Kensington; Grant of St. Mary’s Lands to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster; the Manor of Knightsbridge and Westbourn; the Manor of Notting-Barns; Purchase and Bequest of this Manor by the Countess of Richmond; Property of Lord Sands and Thomas Hobson purchased by the Crown; Elizabeth Massey; Inquisition, shewing that the Manor of Notting Barns was a portion of the Parish of Paddington; Westbourn purchased by Henry the VIII, of Robert White; other Lands purchased by the Crown; Westbourn and other Lands sold to Dr. Thomas Hues, and left by him to Merton College, Oxford; Description of a portion of this property, once in the possession of Lord Sands, and belonging to Chelsea Manor—but forming no part of Chelsea Parish; What has become of Dr. Hues’s bequest? the Manor of Malurres; Ecclesiastical Valuation of Henry the VIII; the Manor of Paddington valued at £19 per annum; Dissolution of Religious Houses; Lease of the Manor and Rectory of Paddington to Sir Edward Baynton and his wife; Grant of the Manor to the Bishop of London, one-fifth being reserved for the uses of the Crown; Descent of the Manor of Paddington as given by Lysons; additions to his description; Sale of this Manor by the Parliament; Dr. Sheldon’s Lease of it, and the Rectory, to his nephews, after the Restoration; leased to Sir John Frederick for three lives; Property of private owners; Commons and Waste

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Chapter IV.—Charity Lands.—Abstract of Returns made to the House of Commons, 1786–88; Report of the Commissioners for Enquiry concerning Charities, 1826; Bread and Cheese Lands; Johnson’s Charity; Dr. Compton’s Charity; Margaret Robertson’s Charity; Alms’ Houses and School House; Chirac’s Gift; Arbourne’s Charity; 1st and 2nd Vic. cap. 32, An Act to enable the Trustees of the Freehold Charity Estates to grant Building Leases of the said Lands; Entries in the Vestry Minute Books

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Chapter V.—The Paddington Estate.—Its present value; 26th of Geo. II. an Act for enlarging the Church-yard; Sir John Frederick’s Will; 3rd of Geo. III, an Act for confirming Sale of Land to St. George’s Parish; 35th of Geo. III, cap. 83, an Act for confirming Grant of New Lease of the Manor, Rectory, and other Lands, by which two-thirds of the proceeds were transferred to Lay Lessees; Granting power to let 200 acres on Building Leases, and for other purposes connected therewith; 35th Geo. III, cap. 43, an Act for making a Navigable Cut to Paddington; 38th Geo. III, cap. 33, another Act relative to the Grand Junction Canal Company; 44th Geo. III, cap. 63, an Act for altering and amending the Bishop’s first Building Act, and for granting further powers the better to carry into execution the purposes of the said Act; 45th Geo. III, cap. 113, another Act for enlarging the powers of the previous Building Acts; 48th Geo. III, cap. 142, another Act for the same purpose; 50th Geo. III, cap. 44, an Act for further enlarging the Church-yard; 51st Geo. III, cap. 169, an Act for establishing the Grand Junction Water-Works Company, one clause of which Act provides that the said Company shall supply the tenants on the Bishop’s Estate with Water at ten per cent. below the average rate; 52nd Geo. III, cap. 192, an Act to confirm another Lease of other Lands to the Grand Junction Canal Company, and an exchange of other portions previously leased; 52nd Geo. III, cap. 193, an Act to enable the Mayor and Commonality of London to sell, and the Bishop of London and his Lessees to buy certain Waters, Springs, Conduits, &c. within the several parishes of Marylebone and Paddington; 52nd Geo. III, cap. 195, an Act for making and maintaining a Navigable Canal from Paddington to Limehouse; 5th Geo. IV, cap. 35, another Act relative to the Grand Junction Canal Company; 6th Geo. IV, cap. 45, another Bishop’s Building Act, by which the power of Letting Building Leases was extended to 400 acres of this Estate; a schedule annexed to this Act sets forth the particular parcels of land claimed by the Bishop and his Lessees—another, the Account of the Receipts and Payments; 7th Geo. IV, cap. 150, an Act relating to the Canal and Water Companies, and containing the former provision for the supply of cheap Water to the tenants of the Bishop’s Estate; 7th and 8th Vic. cap. 30, another Act relative to the Land leased to the Grand Junction Canal and the Grand Junction Water-Works Companies, by which sites for a Church and an Hospital are provided; Sale and Lease of Land to the Great Western Railway Company; Sale of a portion of Paddington Green; Sale of portions of the Upper Readings

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Chapter I.—Definition of the word Parish; Situation of Paddington; Boundaries and Extent; General and Medical Topography; Drainage; Etymology of Names; Origin of the Parish

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Chapter II.—The Parson; Origin and Use of Tithe; Parsonage, Rectory, or Vicarage; Paddington a Chapel of Ease to St. Margaret’s, Westminster; Appropriation and Impropriation; Survey of the Living; the Vicarage converted into the Manor House; Curate’s Stipend; Improvement produced by the Revolution; Modern Abuse of the Rectorial and other Lands; a Curacy without the means of a Cure; Bishop of London’s Receipts from the Paddington Estate; Receipts of the Lay Lessees; Anticipated Remedy to existing Evils

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Chapter III.—Ancient Churches; Tybourn, the Mother Church; St. Katherine’s and St. James’s; Hogarth’s Marriage; Chaterlain’s Views; St. Mary’s, built by Act of Parliament; the Church-yard; Parsonage Houses; Bayswater Chapel; St. John’s; Painted Windows; the New Parish Church; St. James’s; Trinity, and its middle-age Monsters; All Saints; Cost of Churches and Chapels; Contribution of the Ministers towards their support; Lock Chapel; Dissenting Places of Worship

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Chapter IV.—Schools; Paddington Green, Bayswater, Titchbourn Street, and All Saints; Westbourn Schools; Dissenting Schools; Paddington Wharfs Ragged Schools; Charitable Institutions; Orphan Asylum; Bayswater Episcopal Female Orphan School; the Paddington Visiting Society; Provident Dispensary; Savings’ Bank; Alms’ Houses; St. Mary’s Hospital; Free Dispensary; Refuge for the Destitute; Parish Poor-house; the Lock Hospital, Asylum, &c.; Want of Public Institutions; Public Companies

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Chapter V.—Condition of the People; Circumstances which added to their numbers; Population in 1524, and the system of Taxation; Subsidy Rolls; Public Houses; Gentlemen’s Seats; Population in 1685; Notice of the Dead; Laws; Sturges Bourne’s Act; the Local Act; Self-Government; the Parish in the last Century and the beginning of this; the Cottages; Poor-rates, paltry payment thereto by the Bishop and his Lessees; an important clause in the Local Act burked, in order that the Bishop and the Builders might escape payment to the Watching, Lighting and Paving Rate; Single versus Plural Voting in Local Elections; Injustice to the Majority, to be remedied by the adoption of just principles

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