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BARNSTAPLE , a seaport, See also:market See also:town and municipal See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough, in the Barnstaple See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Devonshire, See also:England, on the See also:river Taw, near the See also:north See also:coast. Pop. (1901) 14,137. It is served by the See also:London & See also:South-Western, the See also:Great Western, and the See also:Lynton & Barnstaple See also:railways. The Taw is here crossed by a See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone See also:bridge of sixteen See also:arches, said to have been built in the 12th or 13th See also:century. The town manufactures See also:lace, gloves, See also:sail-See also:cloth and fishing-nets, and has extensive See also:potteries, tanneries, sawmills and foundries, while See also:shipbuilding is also carried on. The See also:harbour admits only small See also:coasting vessels. The public buildings and institutions include a See also:guildhall (1826), a See also:free See also:grammar school and a large market-See also:place. The poet See also:John See also:Gay was See also:born in the vicinity, and received his See also:education at the grammar school, which at an earlier See also:period had numbered See also:Bishop See also:Jewel among its pupils. It was founded in the 14th century, in connexion with a See also:chantry. There are also some curious Jacobean almshouses. The borough is under a See also:mayor, six aldermen and eighteen councillors. See also:Area, 2236 acres.
Barnstaple (Berdestaple, Barnstapol, Barstaple, also Barum) ranks among the most See also:ancient of royal boroughs. As See also:early as Domesday, where it is several times mentioned, there were See also:forty burgesses within the town and nine without, who rendered 4os. Tradition claims that See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:Athelstan threw up defensive See also:earth-See also:works here, but the existing See also:castle is attributed to See also:Joel of See also:Totnes, who held the See also:manor during the reign of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William the Conqueror, and also founded a Cluniac priory, dedicated to St See also:Mary Magdalene. From this date the borough and priory See also:grew up $ide by See also:side, but each preserving its See also:independent privileges and rights of See also:government until the See also:dissolution of the latter in 1535• In See also:Edward II.'s reign the burgesses petitioned for the restoration of rights bestowed by a pretended See also:charter from Athelstan. The existence of this charter was denied, but the desired privileges were conceded, including the right to elect a mayor. The earliest authenticated charter is that of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry I., which was confirmed in a charter of Henry II. The later charter states that the burgesses should have customs similar to those granted to London, and further charters confirmed the same right. A charter of See also:Queen Mary in 1556 added some new privileges, and specified that the See also:common See also:council should consist of a mayor, two aldermen
and twenty-four See also:chief burgesses. See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James I., by a charter dated 1610, increased the number of chief burgesses to twenty-five and instituted a See also:recorder, a clerk of the market, justices of the See also:peace and other See also:officers. This charter was confirmed in 1611 and 1689, and held force until the Municipal Corporations See also:Act of 1835, which established six aldermen and eighteen councillors. The borough sent two members to See also:parliament in 1295, and so continued to do until the Redistribution of Seats Act of 1885, when the See also:representation was merged in that of the See also:county. Barnstaple was once famous for its woollen See also:trade, now entirely declined, and as early as the reign of Edward III. was an important See also:naval See also:port, with an extensive See also:shipping trade. That this prosperity was not altogether uninterrupted is testified by the fact that, at the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of the See also:Armada, the mayor pleaded inability to contribute three See also:ships, on See also:account of injuries to trade consequent on the See also:war with See also:Spain. The See also:Friday market and the See also:annual four days' See also:fair in See also:September are held by immemorial See also:prescription.
See J. B. Gribble, Memorials of Barnstaple (Barnstaple, 1830).
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