All Hallows the Great and All Hallows the Less, London Genealogy

All Hallows, the Great, the church of, is situated at the northeast corner of All Hallows Lane, on the south side Upper Thames Street, near you office at the lower end of Bush Lane, Cannon Street. It derives its name from its dedication to all Saints or Hallows, and it's epithets, to distinguish it from an adjoining church of the same name, which was called in The Less. It is also in ancient books called the more, or the greater, and it, ad Faenum, in the ropery, from its vicinity to some rope walks. His church was founded by the ancestors of the Despencer Family, from whom it passed to the crown, until in 1546 Henry VIII gave it to Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, in whose successors it has remained...