SUNBURY, (Middlesex) on the Thames, bet. Hampton-Court and Shepperton, gives title of Visc. to the Earl of Halifax. One of
the Saxon Ks. granted some land here to Westminster-Abbey; but the manor has, from old time, bel. to the See of London,
and the D. and C. of St. Paul's have all along been patrons of its Ch. in which lies buried Nicasius Yetsworth, who was
secretary for the French tongue to Q. Eliz. In this p. also there anciently bel. a portion of tithes to the priory of St.
Bartholomew in W. Smithfield, and a pension to an abbey in Normandy.