Editing Isleworth (section)

===Advowson, right to appoint the vicar===
The Abbey of St Valeri in Picardy held the livings ([[benefice]]s) and revenues of several English parish church lands and, responding to growing disquiet over these foreign holdings, in 1391 it transferred those of Isleworth (for a fee) to William of Wykeham, who endowed them to [[Winchester College]], which he founded. The Wardens and Scholars of Winchester College therefore became proprietors of productive rectory (which had [[glebe]]lands). This lasted for 150 years, then in 1543 [[Henry VIII of England|King Henry VIII]] exchanged with Winchester certain manors elsewhere for five churches in Middlesex, including All Saints. 

Four years later he gave the Isleworth rectory and advowson to the [[Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset]], but they returned to the crown when the Duke was executed in 1552. Soon after, they were given to the [[Dean (religion)|Dean]] and [[Canon (priest)|Canons]] of [[St George's Chapel, Windsor]], with whom they remain today.<ref>'And So Make a City Here' by G E Bate F.R.Hist.S. pp106/7 published: Thomasons Hounslow 1948</ref>  The castle-like stone church tower by the river remains from this period, see below.