By this Act, the lands belonging to Kilbourn Priory became the property of the crown; and in the following year these lands were exchanged to Sir William Weston, the prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, for the manor of Paris Garden in Southwark. The twenty-eighth of Henry the eighth, chap. 21, which recites the indenture relative to this exchange, states that the demesne lands of the said priory were “in Kylbourne aforesaid, Hamstedd, Padyngton and Westbourn.” And besides these demesne lands, other lands and wood, with “one woode conteynying by estimation twenty-nine acres,” are also said to be “set and beynge in Kylborne and Padyngton aforsayde.” So that it would appear the nuns of Kilbourn as well as the monks of Westminster had possessions in this parish. By the thirty-first of Henry the eighth, chap. 13, the larger monasteries shared the same fate as the smaller ones had done, and the Abbey lands of this place, and those formerly belonging to the priory, reverted again to the crown. In the account which was rendered to the King by the ministers appointed to receive the revenues which came to the crown on the dissolution of Religious Houses, we find the value of the other church property in this parish, set down thus:— _£_ _s._ _d._ Knyghtsbrydge et Westborne Firm’ Terr’ 2 6 8 Knyghtebrydge, Kensyngton et Firm’ 5 14 11 Westbourne Pquis Cur 0 6 4½ I have extracted this account from the Monasticon Anglicanum, vol. i, page 326, where these sums are repeated thus:— _£_ _s._ _d._ Maniu de Knyghtebridge et Westbourne Firm’ 2 6 8 Terr’ Westborne, Knightsbridge et Kensington Man 5 14 11 Redd et Firm Pquis Cur 6 8½ But the Crown had other possessions in Paddington besides those which fell to it by the suppression of Religious Houses. We have already seen that Henry the eighth obtained land here by exchange and purchase, from Lord Sands, Thomas Hobson, John Dunnington, and Robert White. We have also seen that those lands which were purchased of Lord Sands and Robert White by the crown were sold to Dr. Hues, and given by him with other lands to Martyn College, Oxford. Some part of those lands purchased of John Dunnington went to increase the park made by Henry the eighth, viz. Hyde Park; but what became of the remainder I have not been able to discover. What Henry the eighth did with the manor and rectory of Paddington will be seen by the following translation of a portion of a legal instrument still preserved in the Record Office, Carlton Ride. {43} “Inrolments of Leases 35. 36. Henry VIII. P. 65.