ow Road is marked, and there are a few houses on it near the Edgware
Road. The Green Lane, now Warwick Road, runs into it from the north. The
Pest House is marked prominently about where the chapel stands in Craven
Terrace in the south of the parish. Below is marked "Bayswatering."
Queen's Road is Westbourne Green Lane, and the green itself is very
nearly where Royal Oak Station now stands. About it there are a few
scattered houses.

_History._

"King Edgar gave the Manor of Paddington to Westminster Abbey;" this
Lysons affirms without any comment. Dart varies the tradition slightly
by asserting that it was Dunstan and not the King who presented the
manor to the Abbey. But later writers have thrown discredit on both
statements. Paddington is not mentioned in the Conqueror's Survey, which
points to the fact that it was not at that date a separate manor.
Robins, on the authority of the Rev. Richard Widmore, for many years
librarian to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, boldly states that the
documents supposed to prove this gift are undoubted forgeries.

Newcourt says, "the Manor and Rectory of Paddington (which of old did
belong to the monastery of Westminster)," etc. The first authentic
mention of the manor is in a document "in the thirty-first year of Henry
II.," drawn up between "Walter Abbot of Westminster and Richard and
William de Padinton, brothers, touching the entire tenement which they
held in Padinton of the Church of Westminster," whereby they gave up
their hold on the land in consideration of a sum of money. This Abbot
Walter gave, we are told, the manor of Paddington for the celebration of
the anniversary of the day on which he died.

For this festival

"the manor of Paddington is put wholly into the hands of the
Almoner ... and whatsoever shall be the final overplus shall be
expended charitably in distribution to the poor. On the day of
celebration the Almoner is to find for the Convent fine manchets,
cakes, crumpets, cracknells, and wafers, and a gallon of wine for
each friar, with three good pittances, or doles, with good ale in
abundance at every table, and in the presence of the whole
brotherhood: in the same manner upon other occasions the cellarer
is bound to find beer at the usual feasts or anniversaries on the
great tankard of twenty-five quarts.

"He shall also provide most honourably and in all abundance for the
guests that dine in the re