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GRAMPOUND , a small See also:market See also:town in the See also:mid-See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Cornwall, See also:England, 9 M. E.N.E. of See also:Truro, and 2 M. from its station (Grampound Road) on the See also:Great Western railway. It is situated on the See also:river Fal, and has some See also:industry in tanning. It retains an See also:ancient 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; there is a See also:good market See also:cross; and in the neighbourhood, along the Fad, are several See also:early earthworks.
Grampound (Ponsmure, Graundpont, Grauntpount, Graundpond) and the See also:hundred, See also:manor and See also:vill of Tibeste were formerly so closely associated that in 1400 the former is found styled the vill of Grauntpond called Tibeste. 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 'Tibeste was amongst the most valuable of the manors granted to the See also:count of See also:Mortain. The burgensic See also:character of Ponsmure first appears in 1299. See also:Thirty-five years later See also:John of Elthamr granted to the burgesses the whole town of Grauntpount. This 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 was confirmed in 1378 when its extent and See also:jurisdiction were' defined. It was provided that the hundred See also:court of Powdershire should always be held there and two fairs' at the feasts 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 in Cathedra and St See also:Barnabas, both of which are still held, and a Tuesday market (now held on See also:Friday)
and that it should be a See also:free 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 rendering a yearly See also:rent to the See also:earl of Cornwall. Two members were summoned to See also:parliament by See also:Edward VI. in 1553• The See also:electors consisted of an indefinite number of freemen, about 50 in all, indirectly nominated by the See also:mayor and See also:corporation, which existed by See also:prescription. The venality of the electors became notorious. In 178o £3000 was paid fdr a seat: in 1812 each supporter of one of the candidates received £See also:loo. The defeat of this See also:candidate in 1818 led to a parliamentary inquiry which disclosed a See also:system of wholesale corruption, and in 1821 the borough was disfranchised. A former woollen See also:trade is See also:extinct.
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