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DUNSTABLE , a 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 and See also:market See also:town in the See also:southern See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Bedfordshire, See also:England, 37 m. N.W. of See also:London, on branches of the See also:Great See also:Northern and London & See also:North-Western See also:railways. Pop. (Igor) 5157. It lies at an See also:elevation of about 500 ft. on the See also:bleak northward slope of the Chiltern Hills. 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:- 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:Paul is a See also:fine fragment of the church of the Augustinian priory founded 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 I. in 1131. The See also:building was cruciform, but only the See also:west front and See also:part of the See also:nave remain. The front has a large See also:late See also:Norman portal of four orders, with See also:rich See also:Early See also:English arcading above; the nave See also:arcade is ornate Norman. The See also:original See also:triforium is transformed into a See also:clerestory, the original clerestory being lost. The north-west See also:tower has a Perpendicular upper portion, but the See also:south-west tower is destroyed. The church contains various monuments of the 18th See also:century. See also:Foundations of a See also:palace of Henry I. are traceable near the church. The See also: main part of the town extends for a mile along the broad straight See also:Roman road, Watling See also:Street; the high road from See also:Luton to See also:Tring, which crosses it in the centre of the town, representing the See also:ancient Icknield Way. The See also:chief See also:industry is See also:straw See also:hat
manufacture; there are also See also:printing, See also:stationery and See also:engineering See also:works. The borough is under a See also:mayor, 4 aldermen, and 12 councillors. See also:Area, 453 acres.
There may have been a Romano-See also:British See also:village on this site on the Watling Street. Dunstable (Donestaple, Donestaple) first appears as a royal borough in the reign of Henry I., who, according to tradition, on See also:account of the depredations of robbers, cleared the See also:forest where Watling Street and the Icknield Way met, and encouraged his subjects to See also:settle there by various grants of privileges. He endowed the priory by See also:charter with the lordship of the See also:manor and borough, which it retained till its See also:dissolution in 1536-1537. The Dunstable See also:Annals See also:deal exhaustively with the See also:history of the monastery and town in the 13th century. In 1219 the See also:prior secured the right of holding a See also:court there for all See also:crown pleas and of sitting beside the justices itinerant, and this led to serious collision between the monks and burgesses. The See also:body of See also:Queen Eleanor rested here for a See also:night on its See also:journey to See also:Westminster, and a See also:cross, of which there is now no trace, was subsequently erected in the market-See also:place. At Dunstable See also:Cranmer held the court which, in 1533, declared See also:Catherine of See also:Aragon's See also:marriage invalid. At the dissolution a See also:plan was set on See also:foot for the creation of a new bishopric from the spoils of the religious houses, which was to include Bedfordshire and See also:Buckinghamshire with Dunstable as See also:cathedral See also:city. The See also: - SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme was never realized, though plans for the cathedral were actually See also:drawn up.
From the earliest 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 Dunstable has been an agricultural town. The Annals abound with references to the prices and See also:comparative abundance or scarcity of the two See also:staple products, See also:wool and See also:corn. The straw hat manufacture has flourished since the 18th century. Henry I. granted a market held twice a See also:week, and a three days' See also:fair on the feast of St Peter ad Vincula. See also:John made a further See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant of a three days' fair from the loth of May. A market is still held weekly, also fairs in May and See also:August correspond to these grants. Dunstable had also a gild See also:merchant and was affiliated to London. In 1864 the town was made a municipal borough by royal charter.
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