OSENEY-ISLAND, (Oxfordshire) is formed by the r. Isis, in the meadows near Oxford, where a magnificent abbey was erected
by Robert Doyley, at the instigation of his wife, a concubine of K. Henry I. to attone for her sins; and the said K. built
a palace there, wherein K. Richard I. was born, which Edw. II. converted into a mon.