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CHARTERHOUSE . This name is an See also:English corruption of the See also:French maison See also:chartreuse, a religious See also:house of the Carthusian See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order. As such it occurs not uncommonly in See also:England, in various places (e.g. Charterhouse-on-Mendip, Charterhouse See also:Hinton) where the See also:Carthusians were established. It is most See also:familiar, however, in its application to the Charterhouse, See also:London. On a site near the old See also:city See also:wall, See also:west of the See also:modern thoroughfare of Aldersgate, a Carthusian monastery was founded in 1371 by See also:Sir See also:Walter de See also:Manny, a See also:knight of French See also:birth. After its See also:dissolution in 1535 the See also:property passed through various hands. In 1558, while in the See also:possession of See also:Lord See also:North, it was occupied by See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth during the preparations for her See also:coronation, and 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. held See also:court here on his first entrance into London. The Charterhouse was then in the hands of See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Howard, See also:earl of See also:Suffolk, but in May 1611 it came into those of Thomas See also:Sutton (1532–1611) of Snaith, See also:Lincolnshire. He acquired a See also:fortune by the See also:discovery of See also:coal on two estates which he had leased near See also:Newcastle-on-See also:Tyne, and afterwards, removing to London, he carried on a commercial career. In the See also:year of his See also:death, which took See also:place on the 12th of See also:December 1611, he
endowed a See also:hospital on the site of the Charterhouse, calling it the hospital of 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 James; and in his will he bequeathed moneys to maintain a See also:chapel, hospital (See also:almshouse) and school. The will was hotly contested but upheld in court, and the See also:foundation was finally constituted to afford a See also:home for eighty male pensioners (" gentlemen by descent and in poverty, soldiers that have See also:borne arms by See also:sea or See also:land, merchants decayed by piracy or shipwreck, or servants in See also:household to the King or Queen's See also:Majesty "), and to educate See also:forty boys. The school See also:developed beyond the See also:original intentions of its founder, and now ranks among the most eminent public See also:schools in England. In 1872 it was removed, during the headmastership (1863—1897) of the Rev. 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 Haig-See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
Brown (d. 1907), to new buildings near See also:Godalming in See also:Surrey, which were opened on the 18th of See also:June in that year. The number of foundation scholarships is increased to sixty. The scholars are not now distinguished by wearing a See also:special See also:dress or by forming a See also:separate house, though one house is known as Gownboys, preserving the former See also:title of the scholars. The land on which the old school buildings stood in London was sold for new buildings to accommodate the See also:Merchant Taylors' school, but the pensioners still occupy their picturesque home, themselves picturesque figures in the See also:black gowns designed for them under the foundation. The buildings, of mellowed red See also:brick, include a panelled chapel, in which is the founder's See also:tomb, a See also:fine dining-See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall, See also:governors' See also:room with ornate See also:ceiling and tapestried walls, the old library, and the beautiful See also:great See also:staircase.
See also:CHARTER-PARTY (See also:Lat. charta partita, a legal See also:paper or See also:instrument, " divided," i.e. written in duplicate so that each party retains See also:half), a written, or partly written and partly printed, See also:contract between merchant and shipowner, by which a See also:ship is let or hired for the See also:conveyance of goods on a specified voyage, or for a definite See also:period.
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