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DROITWICH , 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 Droitwich See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Worcestershire, See also:England, 51 in. N.N.E. of See also:Worcester, and 126 m. N.W. by W. from See also:London by the See also:Great Western railway. Pop. (1901) 4201. It is served by the See also:Bristol-See also:Birmingham See also:line of the Midland railway, and by the Worcester-See also:Shrewsbury line of the Great Western. It stands on the See also:river Salwarpe, an eastern tributary of the See also:Severn. There is connexion with the Severn by See also:canal. There are three See also:parish churches, St See also:Andrew, St See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter and St See also:Michael, of which the two first are See also:fine old buildings in mixed styles, while St Michael's is See also:modern. The See also:principal occupation is the manufacture of the See also:salt obtained from the brine springs or wyches, to which the town probably owes both its name and its origin. The springs also give Droitwich a considerable reputation as a See also:health resort. There are Royal Brine See also:baths, supplied with See also:water of extreme saltness, St Andrew's baths, and a private See also:bath See also:hospital. The water is used in cases of See also:gout, See also:rheumatism and kindred diseases. Owing to the pumping of the brine for the salt-See also:works there is a continual subsidence of the ground, detrimental to the buildings, and new houses are mostly built in the suburbs. In the pleasant well-wooded See also:district surrounding Droitwich the most noteworthy points are Hindlip 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, 3 M. S., where (in a former See also:mansion) some of the conspirators in the See also:Gunpowder See also:Plot defied See also:search for eight days (16o5); and Westwood, a fine hall of Elizabethan and Carolean date on the site of a See also:Benedictine nunnery, a mile See also:west of Droitwich, which offered a See also:retreat to many Royalist cavaliers and churchmen during the See also:Commonwealth. Droitwich is governed by a See also:mayor, 4 aldermen and 12 councillors. See also:Area, 1856 acres.
A See also:Roman See also:villa, with various See also:relics, has been discovered here, but it is doubtful how far the See also:Romans made use of the brine springs. Droitwich (Wic, Salturic, With) probably owed its origin to the springs, which are mentioned in several charters before the See also:Conquest. 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 Domesday Survey all the salt springs belonged to the 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, who received from them a yearly See also:farm of £65, but the See also:manor was divided between several churches and tenants-in-See also:chief. The burgesses of Droitwich are mentioned in the Domesday Survey, but they probably only had certain franchises in connexion with the salt See also:trade. The
town is first called a borough in the See also:pipe See also:roll of 2 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 II., when an aid of 20S. was paid, but the burgesses did not receive their first See also:charter until 1215, when King See also:John granted them freedom from See also:toll throughout the See also:kingdom and the See also:privilege of holding the town at a See also:fee-farm of £loo. The burgesses appear to have had much difficulty in paying this large farm; in 1227 the king pardoned twenty-eight marks of the See also:thirty-two due as See also:tallage, while in 1237 they were £23 in arrears for the farm. They continued, however, to pay the farm until the See also:payment gradually lapsed in the 18th See also:century. In See also:medieval times Droitwich was governed by two bailiffs and twelve jurats, the former being elected every See also:year by the burgesses; See also:Queen See also:Mary granted the See also:incorporation charter in 1554 under the name of the bailiffs and 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. in 1625 granted another and See also:fuller charter, which remained the governing charter until the Municipal Reform See also:Act. King John's charter granted the burgesses a See also:fair on the feast of SS. Andrew and See also:Nicholas lasting for eight days, but See also:Edward III. in 1330 granted instead two fairs on the See also:vigil and See also:day of St 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 the See also:Martyr and the vigil and day of SS. See also:Simon and See also:Jude. Queen Mary granted three new fairs, and James I. changed the market day from See also:Monday to See also:Friday.
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