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CLITHEROE , a 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 Clitheroe See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Lancashire, See also:England, 220 M. N.N.W. from See also:London and 35 M. N. by W. from See also:Manchester, on the Lancashire & See also:Yorkshire railway. Pop. (1901) 11,414. It is finely situated in the valley of the Ribble, at the See also:foot of Pendle See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill, a steep See also:plateau-like See also:mass rising to 1831 ft. The See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St See also:Mary Magdalene, though occupying an See also:ancient site, is wholly modernized. There are a See also:grammar school, founded in 1554, and a technical school. On a rocky See also:elevation commanding the valley stands the keep and other fragments of a See also:Norman See also:castle, but See also:part of the site is occupied by a See also:modern See also:mansion. The See also:industrial establishments comprise See also:cotton-See also:mills, See also:print-See also:works, See also:paper-mills, foundries, and See also:brick and See also:lime works. The See also:corporation consists of a See also:mayor, 4 aldermen and 12 councillors. See also:Area, 2385 acres.
Stonyhurst See also:College, 5 m. S.W. of Clitheroe, is the See also:principal See also:establishment in England for See also:Roman See also:Catholic students. The See also:Jesuits of St Omer, after emigrating to See also:Bruges and See also:Liege, were disorganized by the revolutionary troubles at the See also:close of the 18th See also:century, and a large See also:body came to England, when 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 Weld, in 1795, conferred his See also:property of Stonyhurst upon them. The See also:fine and extensive buildings, of which the See also:nucleus is a mansion of the 17th century, contain a public school for boys and a See also:house of studies for Jesuit ecclesiastics, while there is a preparatory school at a See also:short distance. Every See also:branch of study is prosecuted, the college including such institutions as an See also:observatory, laboratories and See also:farm buildings.
The See also:Honour of Clitheroe, the name of which is also written Clyderhow and Cletherwoode, was first held by See also:Roger de Poictou, who was almost certainly the builder of the castle, which was dismantled in 1649. He granted it to See also:Robert de See also:Lacy, in whose See also:family it remained with two short intervals until it passed by See also:marriage to Thomas, See also:earl of See also:Lancaster, in 1310. It formed part of the duchy of Lancaster till See also:Charles II. at the Restoration bestowed it. on See also:General See also:- MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
- MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
- MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
- MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)
Monk, from whose family it descended through the house of Montague to that of See also:Buccleuch. The Clitheroe See also:Estate See also:Company are the See also:present lords of the Honour. The first See also:charter was granted about 1283 to the burgesses by 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 de Lacy, second earl of See also:Lincoln, confirming the liberties granted by the first Henry de Lacy, who is therefore sometimes said, although probably erroneously, to have granted a charter about 1147. The 1283 charter was confirmed by See also:Edward III. in 1346, Henry V. in 1413-1414, Henry VIII. in 1542, 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. in 1604. Of the fairs, those on See also:December 7th to 9th and See also:March 24th to 26th are held under a charter of Henry IV. in 1409. A weekly market has been held on Saturday since the Conqueror's days. In 1558 the borough was granted two members of See also:parliament, and continued to return them till 1832, when the number was reduced to one. Under the Redistribution See also:Act of 1885 theborough was disfranchised. The municipal See also:government was formerly vested in an in-See also:bailiff and an out-bailiff elected annually from the in and out burgesses. A See also:court-leet and court-See also:baron used to be held See also:half-yearly, but both are now obsolete. The present . corporation governs under the Municipal Corporation Act (1837). There was a church or See also:chapel here in See also:early times, and a See also:chaplain is mentioned in Henry II.'s reign.
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