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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 59 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CALNE , a See also:

market See also:town and municipal See also:borough in the See also:Chippenham See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Wiltshire, See also:England, 99 M. See also:west of See also:London by the See also:Great Western railway. Pop. (1901) 3457. See also:Area, 356 acres. It lies in the valley of the Calne, and is surrounded by the high table-See also:land of See also:Salisbury See also:Plain and the See also:Marlborough See also:Downs. The See also:church of St See also:Mark has a See also:nave with See also:double aisles, and massive See also:late See also:Norman pillars and See also:arches. The See also:tower, which See also:fell in 1628, was perhaps rebuilt by Inigo See also:Jones. Other noteworthy buildings are a See also:grammar school, founded by See also:John See also:Bentley in 166o, and the town-See also:hall. See also:Bacon-curing is the See also:staple See also:industry, and there are See also:flour, See also:flax and See also:paper See also:mills. The manufacture of broadcloth, once of great importance, is almost See also:extinct. See also:Caine is governed by a See also:mayor, four aldermen and twelve councillors. In the loth See also:century Caine (Canna, Kalne) was the site of a See also:palace of the West-Saxon See also:kings.

Caine was the See also:

scene of the See also:synod of 978 when, during the discussion of the question of See also:celibacy, the See also:floor suddenly gave way beneath the councillors, leaving See also:Archbishop See also:Dunstan alone See also:standing upon a See also:beam. Here also a witenagemot was summoned in 997. In the Domes-See also:day Survey Caine appears as a royal borough; it comprised See also:forty-seven burgesses and was not assessed in hides. In 1565 the borough possessed a gild See also:merchant, at the See also:head of which were two gild stewards. Caine claimed to have received a See also:charter from See also:Stephen and a See also:confirmation of the same from See also:Henry III., but no See also:record of these is extant, and the charter actually issued to the borough by See also:James II. in 1687 apparently never came into force. The borough returned two members to See also:parliament more or less irregularly from the first parliament of See also:Edward I. until the Reform See also:Bill of 1832. From this date the borough returned one member only until, by the Redistribution of Seats See also:Act of 1885, the See also:privilege was annulled. In 1303 Lodovicus de See also:Bello See also:Monte,See also:prebendary of Salisbury, obtained a See also:grant of a Saturday market at the See also:manor of Caine, and a three days' See also:fair at the feast of St See also:Mary Magdalene; the latter was only abandoned in the 19th century. Caine was formerly one of the See also:chief centres of See also:cloth manufacture in the west of England, but the industry is extinct.

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