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GODIVA , a Saxon See also:lady, who, according to the See also:legend, rode naked through the streets of See also:Coventry to gain from her See also:husband a remission of the oppressive See also:toll imposed on his tenants. The See also:story is that she was the beautiful wife of See also:Leofric, See also:earl of See also:Mercia and See also:lord of Coventry. The See also:people of that See also:city suffering grievously under the earl's oppressive See also:taxation, Lady Godiva appealed again and again to her husband, who obstinately refused to remit the tolls. At last, weary of her entreaties, he said he would 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 her See also:request if she would ride naked through the streets of the See also:town. Lady Godiva took him at his word, and after issuing a See also:proclamation that all persons should keep within doors or shut their windows, she rode through, clothed only in her See also:long See also:hair. One See also:person disobeyed her proclamation, a tailor, ever afterwards known as Peeping Tom. He bored a hole in his shutters that he might see Godiva pass, and is said to have been struck See also:blind. Her husband kept his word and abolished the See also:obnoxious taxes.
The See also:oldest See also:form of the legend makes Godiva pass through Coventry See also:market from one end to the other when the people were assembled, attended only by two soldiers, her long hair down so that none saw her, " apparentibus cruribus tamer candidissimis." This version is given in See also:Flores historiarum by See also:Roger of See also:Wendover, who quoted from an earlier writer. The later story, with its See also:episode of Peeping Tom, has been evolved by later chroniclers. Whether the lady Godiva of this story is the Godiva or Godgifu of See also:history is undecided. That a lady of this name existed in the See also:early See also:part of the I Ith See also:century is certain, as evidenced by several See also:ancient documents, such as the See also:Stow See also:charter, the See also:Spalding charter and the Domesday survey, though the spelling of the name varies considerably. It would appear from See also:Liber Eliensis (end of 12th century) that she was a widow when Leofric married her in 1040. In or about that See also:year she aided in the See also:founding of a monastery at Stow, See also:Lincolnshire. In 1043 she persuaded her husband to build and endow a See also:Benedictine monastery at Coventry. Her See also:mark, "di Ego Godiva Comitissa See also:diu istud desideravi," was found on the charter given by her See also:brother, Thorold of Bucknall—See also:sheriff of Lincolnshire—to the Benedictine monastery of Spalding in ro51; and she is commemorated as benefactress of other monasteries at See also:Leominster, See also:Chester, See also:Wenlock, See also:Worcester and See also:Evesham. She probably died a few years before the Domesday survey (1o85–Io86), and was buried in one of the porches of the See also:abbey 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. See also:Dugdale (1656) says that a window, with representations of Leofric and Godiva, was placed in Trinity Church, Coventry, about 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:Richard II. The Godiva procession, a See also:commemoration of the legendary ride instituted on the 31st of May
1678 as part of Coventry See also:fair, was celebrated at intervals until 1826. From 1848 to 1887 it was revived, and recently further attempts have been made to popularize the See also:pageant. The wooden effigy of Peeping Tom which, since 1812, has looked out on the See also:world from a See also:house at the See also:north-See also:west corner of See also:Hertford See also:Street, Coventry, represents a See also:man in See also:armour, and was probably an See also:image of St See also:George. It was removed from another part of the town to its See also:present position.
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