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Title: The history and antiquities, ancient and modern, of the Borough of Reading, in the County of Berks
Year: 1816 (1810s)
Authors: Man, John, of Reading, Eng
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Publisher: Reading : Printed by Snare and Man
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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that family. The site of the abbey, with the adjoining lands and fisheries, was let inthe reign of Charles If. on lease for a certain number of years, at a low rentand fine uncertain. This lease was afterwards purchased by Messrs. Blagraveand Vansittavt, who still hold them under the crown. At the renewal of thelease, in 1780, to. John Blagrave, and Henry Vansittart, esqrs. for twenty oneyears, tiie fine paid was 1500/. and the reserved rent payable to the crown,was increased to forty-four pounds thirteen shillings and two pence halfpennyper annum ; the whole had been previously valued at three hundred and fifty-seven pounds five shillings and nine pence per annum. These lands are let to under-tenants at increased rents, but the profits tothe crown would be considerably augmented, and the advantages to be deriv-ed to the town incalculable, were the parts more immediately connectedwith the town, particularly those on the banks of the river, disposed of iasmall lots to the inhabitants.
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RELIGIOUS FOUNDATIONS. 285 The state of the abbey^ after its final ruin at the end of the civil wars^ Chap.may be conjectured from the following- survey, made by order of parliament, XIII.in 1650, by commissioners appointed for that purpose. Reading abbey. All that capital messuage, mansion-house or abbey-house, with the appurtenances, called Reading abbey, consisting of two sellars,tw^o butteries, a hall, a parlour, a dining-room, ten chambers, a garret with alarge gallery, and other small roomes, with two court yards, and a large gate-house, with several rooms adjoining to the said house, and a small gardine,with an old small house, built with stone, thereto adjoining, and a stable withsellars over the same, and a small tenement in the south end of the said stable,with a little gardine, and a dove-house, which said abbey, with the site thereof,is in the occupation of Mr. Richard Knollys, and is bounded with the courtcalled the Forbury north and east, Pond-haies south, and the great

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