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Islip's name has been introduced by the error of some subsequent writer; and this is perhaps attributable to the extraordinary inadvertence of Dart, the historian of the abbey, who in his _Lives of the Abbots of Westminster_ has altogether omitted Esteney, -- a circumstance which may have misled any one hastily consulting his book.
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As that gentleman quotes from, I believe, the second edition of the _Survey_, I may be allowed to doubt, until it is clearly shown, that "Islip's name has been introduced by the error of some subsequent writer."
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So only a poor remnant, a 'ragged regiment,' has been rallied, at length, into the sanctuary of Islip's Chapel.
Yet Again Max Beerbohm 1914
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Islip's chapel, where a tablet records his adherence to his two kings.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See Philip Walsingham Sergeant 1912
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Outside, the chapel is decorated with Islip's quaint device, a play upon his name Islip: an eye with a hand holding a slip or branch, and a man slipping from a tree.
Westminster Abbey A. Murray Smith 1877
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She said that as the psychiatric hospital, Central Islip's main employer, shut down over the 1980s and 1990s, many of the 1950s Capes and ranches in the diverse community were left vacant and the neighborhood skidded.
NYT > Home Page By MARCELLE S. FISCHLER 2011
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Long Island Index, 27.3 percent of Central Islip's households are renter-occupied, an increase of 22.9 percent since 1990 and far more than elsewhere on the Island, where 17 percent of units are rental housing the national average is 40 percent.
NYT > Home Page By MARCELLE S. FISCHLER 2011
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Its reasoning stems from Central Islip's particular demographics.
NYT > Home Page By MARCELLE S. FISCHLER 2011
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'Tis a paltry parsonage, with nothing of antiquity but two panes of glass, purloined from Islip's chapel in Westminster Abbey, with that abbot's rebus, an eye and a slip of a tree.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757
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Central Islip's administration is considering laying off more than 100 teachers and other
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