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CHERTSEY

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 86 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHERTSEY , a See also:

market See also:town in the Chertsey See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Surrey, See also:England, 22 M. W.S.W. from See also:London by the London & See also:South-Western railway. Pop. of See also:urban See also:district (1901) 12,762. It is pleasantly situated on the right See also:bank of the See also:Thames, which is crossed by a See also:bridge of seven See also:arches, built of Purbeck See also:stone in 1785. The See also:parish See also:church, rebuilt in 1808; contains a tablet to See also:Charles See also:James See also:Fox, who resided at St See also:Anne's See also:Hill in the vicinity, and another to See also:Lawrence Tomson, a translator of the New Testament in the 17th See also:century. Hardly any remains are See also:left of a See also:great See also:Benedictine See also:abbey, whose buildings at one See also:time included an See also:area of 4 acres. They See also:fell into almost See also:complete decay in the 17th century, and a " See also:fair See also:house " was erected out of the ruins by See also:Sir See also:Nicholas See also:Carew of Beddington. The ground-See also:plan can be traced; the See also:fish-ponds are complete; and carved stones, coffins and encaustic tiles of a See also:peculiar manufacture are frequently exhumed. Among the abbots the most famous was See also:John de Rutherwyk, who was appointed in 1307, and continued, till his See also:death in 1346, to carry on a great See also:system of alteration and See also:extension, which almost made the abbey a new See also:building. The house in which the poet See also:Cowley spent the last years of his See also:life remains, and the chamber in which he died is preserved unaltered. The town is the centre of a Iarge residential district. Its See also:principal See also:trade is in produce for the London markets.

The first religious See also:

settlement in Surrey, a Benedictine abbey, was founded in 666 at Chertsey (Cerotesei, Certesey), the See also:manor of which belonged to the See also:abbot until 1539, since when it has been a See also:possession of the See also:crown. In the reign of See also:Edward the See also:Confessor Chertsey was a large See also:village and was made the See also:head of Godley See also:hundred. The increase of See also:copyhold under Abbot John de Rutherwyk led to discontent, the tenants in 1381 rising and burning the rolls. Chertsey owed its importance primarily to the abbey, but partly to its See also:geographical position. Ferriesover the Redewynd were subjects of royal See also:grant in 1340 and 1399; the abbot built a new bridge over the See also:Bourne in- 1333, and wholly maintained the bridge over the Thames when it replaced the 14th century See also:ferry. In 1410 the See also:king gave permission to build a bridge over the Redewynd. As the centre of an agricultural district the markets of Chertsey were important and are still held. Three days' fairs were granted to the abbots in 1129 for the feast of St See also:Peter ad Vincula by See also:Henry III. for See also:Holy See also:Rood See also:day; in 1282 for See also:Ascension day; and a market on Mondays was obtained in 1282. In 1590 there were many poor, for whose See also:relief See also:Elizabeth gave a fair for a day in See also:Lent and a market on Thursdays. These fairs still survive. See See also:Lucy See also:Wheeler, Chertsey Abbey (London, 1905); See also:Victoria See also:County See also:History, Surrey.

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