During the twelfth and early part of the thirteenth centuries, disputes of a very unseemly nature frequently took place between the Abbots of Westminster and the Bishops of London, relative to the jurisdiction of the latter over the Abbey, and otherwise as to their respective privileges and districts. Another pretty good proof, as Widmore justly remarks, that the ancient charters, so much spoken of, were mere forgeries. These disputes were at length referred to Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishops of Winchester and Salisbury, and the Priors of Merton and Dunstaple; and in their decree, which is published at length in Wharton’s Historia de Espiscopis et Decanis Londinensibus, after giving the Bishop a considerable slice of the territory which the monks had claimed in the region of the Fleete, and fixing the boundary westward, as in Edgar’s Charter, by the Tybourn, the following passage occurs:—“Extra veró suprá scriptas metas villæ de Knygtebrigge, Westburne, Padyngtoun cum Capellâ, et cum earum pertinentiis, pertinent ad Parochiam S. Margaretæ memoratum.” {18a} So that even the Ecclesiastical jurisdiction over Paddington had not been legally given to the Abbey before the thirteenth century; for this document is dated 1222. If we can rely on the authenticity of the passage just quoted, a chapel must have been built here previous to that date; and now this chapel, as the author of the Ecclesiastical Topography correctly remarks became a Chapel of Ease to St. Margaret’s, Westminster. This writer makes the value of the church and chapel, in 1291, only thirty marks and a half; {18b} but in the Taxatio Ecclesiastica, printed by the Record Commission, the following entries are to be found at page 17:— “Ecclia Sce Margarete cu Capella de Padinton £20. Vicaria Ejusdem 8.” No inconsiderable difference in times when the land in Paddington paid only four-pence per acre, per annum, rent. Whatever doubts may arise in the mind as to the accuracy of John Flete’s story, or as to the capability of the land in Paddington to furnish the annual feast we have described as having been appointed in 1191; it appears from this taxation, that in 1291, a chapel was built and endowed here; and the sum we have already mentioned given in charity. The temporal entry in the Taxatio Ecclesiastica is as follows: “Bona Obedienc’ Westm’ in Westmon’ £1 12 3 Elemosinar’ be redd’ Item idem in Padinton de terr’ redd’ cons’ et 8 16 4” fet’ animaliu’