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HALSTEAD , a See also:market-See also:town in the See also:Maldon See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Essex, See also:England, on the See also:Colne, 17 M. N.N.E. from See also:Chelmsford; served by the Colne Valley railway from Chappel Junction on the See also:Great Eastern railway. Pop. of See also:urban See also:district (1901), 6073. It lies on a 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 in a pleasant 'wooded district. 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:Andrew is mainly Perpendicular. It contains a See also:monument supposed to commemorate See also:Sir See also:Robert See also:Bourchier (d. 1349), See also:lord See also:chancellor to See also:Edward III. The See also:Lady See also:Mary See also:Ramsay See also:grammar school See also:dates from 1594. There are large See also:silk and See also:crape See also:works. Two See also:miles N. of Halstead is Little Maplestead, where the church is the latest in date of the four churches with See also:round naves, extant in England, being perhaps of 12th-See also:century See also:foundation, but showing See also:early Decorated See also:work in the See also:main. The See also:chancel, which is without aisles, terminates in an See also:apse.
Three miles N.W. from Halstead are the large villages of Sible Hedingham (pop. 1701) and See also:Castle Hedingham (pop. 1097). At the second is the See also:Norman keep of the de Veres, of whom See also:Aubrey de See also:Vere held the lordship from 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 I. The keep dates from the end of the r1th century, and exhibits much See also:fine Norman work. The church of St See also:Nicholas, Castle Hedingham, has fine Norman, Transitional and Early See also:English details, and there is a See also:black See also:marble See also:tomb of See also:John de Vere, 15th See also:earl of See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford (d. 1540), with his countess.
There are signs of See also:settlement at Halstead (Halsteda,Halgusted, Halsted) in the See also:Bronze See also:Age; but there is no See also:evidence of the causes of its growth in historic times. Probably its situation on the See also:river Colne made it to some extent a See also:local centre. Throughout the See also:middle ages Halstead was unimportant, and never See also:rose to the See also:rank of 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.
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