He had been christened on 6th April 1602, at St Nicholas Cole Abbey, London (near St Paul's Cathedral), the son of Robert ... In the 1630s he was rector of various parishes in County Durham in the ...

Laurence of Durham was Abbot of Westminster from about 1158. His effigy can still be seen in the south cloister of the Abbey under the bench where it was moved for better preservation in 1752. He was ...