A Short Chronicle Concerning the Parish of Croydon in the County of Surrey |
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Abbot acres Addington Hills Addiscombe adjoining afterwards ancient Anglo-Saxon appointed Arch Archbishop Abbot Archbishop Courtenay Archbishop of Canterbury Archbishop Whitgift Archiepiscopal arms became Beddington Bouchier buried chamber Chancellor chapel Charles Chicheley churchyard coins collated by Archbishop College consecrated Court Courtenay Cranmer Croham Crown Croydon Church Croydon Palace dated died Domesday Domesday Book Ducarel Duke Duppa's Hill Earl England English formerly George Grindal Haling Henry VIII High Street horse Juxon King Edward King's Lady Lambeth land Lane Lanfranc Laud Lord manor of Croydon mansion monument Myles Coverdale neighbourhood Norwood Old Church Oxford parish of Croydon pond Pope prelate present rectory reign remains resided at Croydon Richard Road Robert Roman Royal Sanderstead Saxon sewage side Sir John South Norwood stream Surrey Surrey Street tenements Thomas Thornton Heath Town Hall town of Croydon Vicar Waddon Wandle Warham Whitgift William William Warham
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Page 130 - ... for a harbour and subsistence for the poor, together with a fair school-house for the increase of literature, and a large dwelling for the schoolmaster, the Archbishop had the happiness, through God's favourable assistance, to build and perfect in his own lifetime. And the reason why he Annai.4to.
Page 125 - At last, it has been said, being really blind, more with grief than age, he was willing to put off his clothes before he went to bed, and in his lifetime to resign his place to Dr. Whitgift, who refused such acceptance thereof. And the queen, commiserating his condition, was graciously pleased to say that as she had made him so he should die, an archbishop ; as he did, July 6th, 1583.