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EGREMONT , a See also:market See also:town in the Egremont See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Cumberland, See also:England, 5 M. S.S.E. of See also:Whitehaven, on a See also:joint See also:line of the See also:London & See also:North Western and See also:Furness See also:railways. Pop. of See also:urban See also:district (1901) 5761. It is pleasantly situated in the valley of the Ehen. Ruins of a See also:castle command the town from an See also:eminence. It was founded c. 1120 by 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 de Meschines; it is mated, and retains a See also:Norman See also:doorway and some of the See also:original See also:masonry, as well as fragments of later date. 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 is a See also:modern reconstruction em-bodying some of the Norman features of the old church. See also:Iron ore and See also:limestone are raised in the neighbourhood.
It seems impossible to find any See also:history for Egremont until after the Norman See also:Conquest, when 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. gave the See also:barony of Coupland to William de Meschines, who erected a castle at Egremont around which the town See also:grew into importance. The barony afterwards passed by See also:marriage to the families of See also:Lucy and Multon, and finally came to the Percys, earls of See also:Northumberland, from whom are descended the See also:present lords of the See also:manor of Egremont. The earliest See also:evidence that Egremont was a 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 occurs in a See also:charter, granted by See also:Richard de Lucy in the reign 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 See also:John, which gave the burgesses right to choose their See also:reeve, and set out the customs owing to the See also:lord of the manor, among which was that. of providing twelve armed men at his castle in 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 See also:war. The borough was represented by two members in the See also:parliament of 1295, but in the following See also:year was disfranchised, on the See also:petition of the burgesses, on See also:account of the expense of sending members. In 1267 Henry III. granted 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 de Multon a market every Wednesday at Egremont, and a See also:fair every year on the See also:eve, See also:day and morrow of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary. In the Quo Warranto rolls he is found to have claimed by See also:prescription another weekly market on Saturday. The market rights were See also:purchased from Lord Leconfield in 1885, and the market on Saturday is still held. Richard de Lucy's charter shows that See also:dyeing, See also:weaving and fulling were carried on in the town in his time.
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