FROM THE TWELFTH CENTURY TO THE

PRESENT TIME.

Compiled from Manorial and Parochial Documents,

BY

EDITH JACKSON,

WITH INTRODUCTORY PREFACE BY

W. E. OLIVER, LL.D., Vicar of Ealing.

DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO MISS PERCEVAL.

LONDON:

PHILLIMORE & CO., 36, ESSEX STREET, STRAND.

CHAS. J. CLARK, ESSEX STREET.

MDCCCXCVIII.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

EALING OR YLLYNGES.-Probable Derivation of Name.-Lords of

the Manor.-Domesday Book and the Churches.-Ealing

supposed to have been included with Fulham.-Ealing Forest

Land.-The Bishop's Rights.-Curious Claims by the Dean

and Chapter of St. Paul's.—A Singular Grant to the County.-

Some Ancient Divisions.-Boundaries and Extent.-"Soyle

and Fertilitie."-Supposed Saxon Settlement.-Traces of

earlier Roman Occupation.-Notes on a Rare Gold Coin

CHAPTER II.

MEMORIALS OF THE OLD PARISH CHURCH.-Earliest Historic

Notice of Ealing.-Magister Scholarum.-Vicarage and Glebe.

-Grant to Gerard de Aylesbury.-The Old Church.-Inventory

of Church Property in 1552.—Some Churchwardens' Difficul-

ties.-Parliamentary Survey of 1650.-Theological Troubles.—

Illustrious Divines.

CHAPTER III.

OLD REGISTERS AND PARISH BOOKS.-Origin and Commencement

of Registers.-Early Entries.-Excommunicants.-The Plague

Years. Curious Memoranda in the Rate Books.-The Con-

dition of the Church-Extracts from the Vestry Minute

Books.

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CHAPTER IV.

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TWO PROMINENT CHURCHMEN.-Thomas de Bradwardin, 1290-1-

1349.—William Beveridge, 1638-1708.

CHAPTER V.

ST. MARY'S REBUILT.-The Work of Rebuilding.-Act of Parlia-

ment obtained.—Original Trustees.-First and Last Payments.

-Foundation Stone Laid.-Church Opened.-The New

Edifice.—Addition to Churchyard.—Monuments and Mural

Inscriptions in the Church and Graveyard.

CHAPTER VI.

OLD EALING AND THE PUBLIC ARCHIVES.-The Town and Village.

-Ealing and the State Papers.—Frequent mention in the

old County Records.-A Dark Deed of the Seventeenth

Century. The High-road.-The Ship-money Tax.-Vagabonds

or Egyptians.-Old Ealing Tokens. ..

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CHAPTER VII.

ANCIENT MANORS WITHIN THE PARISH OF EALING.-Antiquity

of Manors.-History of Ealing Manor.-The Commons.—

Manor of Coldhawe.-Some Biographical Notices.-The

Manor of Pittshanger -Description of the Manor House.-Its

Venerable Owner. The Right Hon. Spencer Horatio

Walpole.

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CHAPTER VIII.

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HISTORIC BRENTFORD AND EALING.-Old Norden's Argument.-

Antiquity of Brentford.-Brentford and the Old Saxon

Chroniclers.-Two Kings of Brentford.-An Unique Celebra-

tion at the Red Lion Inn.-The Marian Persecution.—Six

Martyrs Burnt at Brentford.-The Civil Wars.-Battle of

Brentford.-Petition of the Inhabitants.-Its Answer.-Earl

of Brentford.

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CHAPTER IX.

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HISTORICAL NOTES ON BRENTFORD.-Early Importance of Brentford

Weir.-Fisheries.-River.-Church of St. Lawrence.-Endow-

ment of Vicarage.-The Manor.-Curious Extracts from

Registers.-Brentford Witches.-St. George's.-Some Bio-

graphical Notes.-Brentford in Fiction.-The Market and

Fair.-Old Games.-Coaching Days.-Ancient Bridge.-

Present Bridge.-The Butts.-Historic Inns.--Grand Junction

Waterworks.-County Elections.-A Memorable Royal Visit. 118

CHAPTER X.

GUNNERSBURY OR ANCIENT GONYLDESBURG.-Early History.-

Valuation of Gonyldesburg at the time of Alice Perrer's

Banishment. Some Owners.-Norden's Description -Ser-

jeant Maynard.-The Princess Amelia.-Horace Walpole's

Account of an Evening Spent at Gunnersbury.—Later Pur-

chasers. Description of Mansion previous to Sale and Pulling

Down.-Gunnersbury House.-Gardens.-Its Present Owner.

-A Historic Painting.

CHAPTER XI.

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TIME-HONOURED PAROCHIAL INSTITUTIONS.-Master Frowyk's

Gift.-An Old Agreement about Letting the Church House.-

Its Memorial Stone.-Origin of the Workhouse.-Almshouses.

-Parochial Perambulation

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CHAPTER XII.

A CAREFUL Retrospect.—A Topographical Sketch, with Brief

Notes.-Ealing 1831-2.

A FAMOUS PRIVATE SCHOOL.-The Old Rectory.-Two Resident

Rectors.-Memorials of Former Occupiers.-Description of

School House and Grounds.-Professor Newman's Recollec-

tions.—An Ode.-Distinguished Alumni.—Biographical Notes. 168