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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 534 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HITCHIN , a See also:

market See also:town in the Hitchin See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Hertfordshire, See also:England, on the small See also:river Hiz, 32 m. N. from See also:London by the See also:Great See also:Northern railway. Pop. of See also:urban See also:district (1901) 10,072. It is the junction of the See also:main See also:line with the See also:Cambridge See also:branch, and with a branch of the Midland railway to See also:Bedford: The See also:church of St See also:Mary is Perpendicular, with a See also:fine See also:porch, a See also:painting of the See also:Adoration of the Magi, attributed to See also:Rubens, a small See also:crypt said to have been used by See also:Cromwell as a See also:prison for the Royalists, and many interesting monuments. Hitchin Priory is a See also:mansion on the site of a Carmelite See also:foundation of the See also:early 14th See also:century. A Gilbertine nunnery, founded later in the same century, stood adjacent to the church, and portions of the buildings appear in an existing See also:block of almshouses. The See also:grammar school (1632) was reconstituted in 1889 for boys and girls. See also:Straw-plaiting, malting, See also:brewing, and the cultivation and See also:distillation of See also:lavender and See also:peppermint are carried on.

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