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LOSTWITHIEL , 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 $odmin See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Cornwall, See also:England, 302 M. W. of See also:Plymouth by the See also:Great Western railway. Pop. (1901) 1379. It is pleasantly situated on the See also:banks of the See also:river See also:Fowey. 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:Bartholomew is remarkable for a See also:fine See also:Early See also:English See also:tower surmounted by a Decorated See also:spire; there are also beautiful Decorated windows and details in the See also:body of the church, and a richly carved octagonal See also:font. A See also:bridge of the 14th See also:century crosses the river. The See also:shire 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 includes remains of a See also:building, called the Stannary See also:prison, dating from the 13th century. The Great Western railway has workshops at Lostwithiel.
Lostwithiel owed its See also:ancient liberties—probably its existence—to the neighbouring See also:castle of Restormel. The See also:Pipe Rolls (1194-1203) show that See also:Robert de Cardinan, See also:lord of Restormel, paid ten marks yearly for having a market at Lostwithiel. By an undated See also:charter still preserved with the See also:corporation's muniments he surrendered to the burgesses all the liberties given them by his predecessors (antecessores) when they founded the town. These included hereditary See also:succession to tenements, exemption from sullage, the right to elect a See also:reeve (praepositus) if the grantor thought one necessary and the right to marry without the lord's interference. By Isolda, granddaughter of Robert de Cardinan, the town was given to See also:Richard, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of the See also:Romans, who in the third See also:year of his reign granted to the burgesses a gild See also:merchant See also:sac and See also:soc, See also:toll, team and infangenethef, freedom from pontage, lastage, &c., throughout Cornwall, and exemption from the See also:jurisdiction of the See also:hundred and See also:county courts, also a yearly See also:fair and a weekly market. Richard transferred the assizes from See also:Launceston to Lostwithiel. His son See also:Edmund, See also:earl of Cornwall, built a great hall at Lostwithiel and decreed that the coinage of See also:tin should be at Lostwithiel only. In 1325 Richard's charter was confirmed and the market ordered to be held on Thursdays. In 1386 the assizes were transferred back to Launceston. In 1609 a charter of See also:incorporation provided for a See also:mayor, See also:recorder, six See also:capital burgesses and seventeen assistants and courts of See also:record and See also:pie See also:powder. The boundaries of the borough were extended in 1733. Under the reformed charter granted in 1885 the corporation consists of a mayor, four aldermen and twelve councillors. From 1305 to 1832 two members represented
Lostwithiel in See also:parliament. The See also:electors after 16o9 were th. twenty-five members of the corporation. Under the Reform See also:Act (1832) the borough became merged in the county. For the See also:Thursday market granted in 1326 a See also:Friday market was sub stituted in 1733, and this continues to be held. The fair granted in 1326 and the three fairs granted in 1733 have all given See also:place to others. The See also:archdeacon's See also:court, the sessions and the county elections were See also:long held at Lostwithiel, but all have now been removed. For the victory gained by See also:Charles I. over the earl of See also:Essex in 1644, see GREAT See also:REBELLION.
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