Edward the Confessor and abbacies. However, his appointments were generally respectable. When Odda of Deerhurst died without heirs in 1056, Edward seized lands which Odda had granted to Pershore Abbey and gave them to his Westminster foundation; the historian Ann Williams observes that "the Confessor did not in the 11th century have the saintly reputation which he later enjoyed, largely through the efforts of the Westminster monks themselves". After 1066 there was a subdued cult of Edward as a saint, possibly discouraged by the early Norman abbots of Westminster, which gradually increased in the early 12th century . Osbert of Clare, the prior
Richard King (English cricketer) a batting average of 12.17, with a high score of 31. With the ball he took 17 wickets at a bowling average of 55.35, with best figures of 4/34. In the 3 List-A matches he played, he scored 2 runs and took 2 wickets at an average of 46.00, with best figures of 2/39. Richard King (English cricketer) Richard Eric King (born 3 January 1984) is a former English cricketer. King was a right-handed batsman who bowled left-arm medium-fast. He was born at Hitchin, Hertfordshire and educated at Bedford Modern School. King made his debut in List-A cricket for the