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EVESHAM , 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 Evesham See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Worcestershire, See also:England, 107 M. W.N.W. of See also:London by the See also:Great Western railway, and 15 m. S.E. by E. of See also:Worcester, with a station on the See also:Redditch-Ashchurch See also:branch of the Midland railway. Pop. (1902) 7101. It lies on the right (See also:north) See also:bank of the See also:Avon, in the See also:rich and beautiful Vale of Evesham. The See also:district is devoted to market-gardening and orchards, and the See also:trade of the town is mainly agricultural. Evesham is a See also:place of considerable antiquity, a See also:Benedictine See also:house having been founded here by St Egwin in the 8th See also:century. It became a wealthy See also:abbey, but 'was almost wholly destroyed at the See also:Dissolution. The See also:churchyard, however, is entered by a See also:Norman gateway, and there survives also a magnificent isolated See also:- BELL
- BELL, ALEXANDER MELVILLE (1819—1905)
- BELL, ANDREW (1753—1832)
- BELL, GEORGE JOSEPH (1770-1843)
- BELL, HENRY (1767-1830)
- BELL, HENRY GLASSFORD (1803-1874)
- BELL, JACOB (1810-1859)
- BELL, JOHN (1691-178o)
- BELL, JOHN (1763-1820)
- BELL, JOHN (1797-1869)
- BELL, ROBERT (1800-1867)
- BELL, SIR CHARLES (1774—1842)
bell-See also:tower dating from 1533, of the best ornate Perpendicular workmanship. The abbey walls surround the churchyard, but almost the only other remnant is a single Decorated See also:arch. See also:Close to the bell-tower, however, are the two See also:parish churches of St See also:- LAWRENCE
- LAWRENCE (LAURENTIUS, LORENZO), ST
- LAWRENCE, AMOS (1786—1852)
- LAWRENCE, AMOS ADAMS (1814–1886)
- LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (1827–1876)
- LAWRENCE, JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE, 1ST BARON (1811-1879)
- LAWRENCE, SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY (1806–1857)
- LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS (1769–1830)
- LAWRENCE, STRINGER (1697–1775)
Lawrence and of All See also:Saints, the former of the 16th century, the latter containing See also:Early See also:English See also:work, and the ornate See also:chapel of See also:- ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
- ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
- ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)
Abbot See also:Lichfield, who erected the bell-tower. Other buiidings include an Elizabethan town 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, the See also:grammar school, founded by Abbot Lichfield, and the picturesque
See also:almonry. The borough includes the parish of Bengeworth 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, on the See also:left bank of the See also:river. Evesham is governed by a See also:mayor, 4 aldermen and 12 councillors. See also:Area, 2265 acres.
Evesham (Homme, Ethomme) See also:grew up around the Benedictine abbey, and had evidently become of some importance as a trading centre in 1055, when See also:Edward the See also:Confessor gave it a market and the privileges of a commercial town. It is uncertain when the town first became a borough, but the Domesday statement that the men paid 20S. may indicate the existence of a more or less organized See also:body of tradesmen. Before 1482 the burgesses were holding the town at a See also:fee See also:farm See also:rent of twenty marks, but the abbot still had See also:practical See also:control of the town, and his steward presided over the See also:court at which the bailiffs were chosen. After the Dissolution the See also:manor with the markets and fairs and other privileges was granted to See also:Sir See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip See also:Hoby, who increased his See also:power over the town by persuading the burgesses to agree that, after they had nominated six candidates for the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of See also:bailiff, the steward of the court instructed by him should indicate the two to be chosen. This See also:privilege was contested by See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth, but when the See also:case was taken before the court of the See also:exchequer it was decided in favour of Sir Philip's See also:heir, Sir Edward Hoby. In 1604 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. granted the burgesses their first See also:charter, but in the following See also:year, by a second charter, he incorporated Evesham with the See also:village of Bengeworth, and granted that the borough should be governed by a mayor and seven aldermen, to whom he gave the power of holding markets and fairs and several other privileges which had formerly belonged to the See also:lord of the manor. Evesham received two later charters, but in 1688 that of 16os was restored and still remains the governing charter of the borough. Evesham returned two members to See also:parliament in 1295 and again in 1337, after which date the privilege lapsed until 1604. Its two members were reduced to one by the See also:act of 1867, and the borough was disfranchised in 1885.
Evesham gave its name to the famous See also:battle, fought on the 4th of See also:August 1265, between the forces of See also:Simon de See also:Montfort, See also:earl of See also:Leicester, and the royalist See also:army under See also:Prince Edward. After a masterly See also:campaign, in which the prince had succeeded in defeating Leicester in the valleys of the See also:Severn and See also:Usk; and had destroyed the forces of the younger Montfort at See also:Kenilworth before he could effect a junction with the See also:main body, the royalist forces approached Evesham in the See also:morning of the 4th of August in 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 to intercept Leicester's See also:march towards Kenilworth. Caught in the See also:bend of the river Avon by the converging columns, and surrounded on all sides, the old earl attempted to cut his way out of the town to the northward. At first the fury of his See also:assault forced back the See also:superior See also:numbers of the prince; but Simon's Welsh levies melted away and his enemies closed the last See also:avenue of See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape. The final struggle took place on See also:Green 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 little to the north-See also:west of the town, where the devoted See also:friends of de Montfort formed a See also:ring See also:round their See also:leader, and died with him. The spot is marked with an See also:obelisk.
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