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Langley (king's) in Hertford County England History and GeographyLANGLEY (KING'S), a parish in the hundred of DACORUM, county of HERTFORD, 19 miles (W.S.W.) from Hertford, containing 1242 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £8, and in the patronage of the Bishop of Ely. The church, dedicated to All Saints, is built of flint and stone, with a square embattled tower surmounted by a short spire, and is remarkable as containing the tomb of Edmund de Langley, fifth son of Edward III., and Duke of York, who was born at an ancient royal palace here; he died in 1402, and was buried in the church of the priory, from which, at the dissolution, his tomb was removed to the parish church: it has lately received an addition of two hundred and seventy-seven sittings, of which two hundred and fifty-seven are free, the Incorporated Society for the enlargement of churches and chapels having granted £200 towards defraying the expense. A priory, or house for friars preachers, founded here by Roger, son of Robert Helle, or Helke, but afterwards enlarged and more liberally endowed by the munificence of the kings Edward I., II., III., and IV., possessed, in the 26th of Henry VIII., a revenue of £150. 14. 8. Queen Mary restored it for a prioress and nuns, but it was totally suppressed in the 1st of Elizabeth. A large paper manufactory here affords employment to about fifty persons. The Grand Junction canal passes through the parish, in excavating which a human skeleton and jaw bones, of gigantic size, were found in 1820, and an ancient sword and a spear in 1822. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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