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NEWBURY , 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 Newbury See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Berkshire, See also:England, 53 M. W. by S. of See also:Reading by the See also:Great Western railway. Pop. (1901) 11,o61. It is beautifully situated in the narrow well-wooded valley of the Kennet, which is followed by the Kennet and See also:Avon See also:canal. The town has See also:north and See also:south communications by the Didcot, Newbury & See also:Southampton railway (worked by the Great Western See also:company), and is the See also:terminus of the See also:Lambourn Valley See also:light railway. 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:Nicholas is a large Perpendicular See also:building of the beginning of the 16th See also:century. It is said to have been built mainly at the See also:charge of See also:John Winchcombe or Smalwoode (See also:Jack of Newbury), an eminent See also:clothier, who, according to the See also:brass to his memory, died in See also:February 1519. A few picturesque old buildings remain in the town, including See also:part of Winchcombe's See also:house and the Jacobean See also:cloth 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, now a public museum. The almshouses called 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 John's See also:Court are supported by a See also:foundation known as St See also:Bartholomew's See also:Hospital, to which in 1215 King John. granted by See also:charter (renewed in 1596 to the See also:corporation) the profits of a See also:fair on St Bartholomew's See also:day (24th of See also:August). See also:Shaw House, on the outskirts of the town to the north-See also:east, is an Elizabethan See also:mansion of See also:brick, dating from 1581; to the north is Donnington See also:castle, retaining a Perpendicular gateway and other fragments. The suburb of Speenhamland was formerly an important posting station on the See also:Bath road. At Sandleford Priory, to the south of Newbury, the site and part of the buildings of an Augustinian priory (c. 1200) were utilized in the erection of a mansion, in 1781, for Mrs See also:Elizabeth Montague. The house-holders of Newbury have the right to elect boys and girls to the educational foundation of See also:Christ's Hospital. The cloth See also:industry is See also:long See also:extinct in Newbury, but large See also:wool fairs are held annually; there is considerable agricultural See also:trade, and there are breweries and See also:flour See also:mills. A racecourse was opened in the vicinity of the town in 1905, and six meetings are held annually. The borough is under a See also:mayor, 6 aldermen and 18 councillors, See also:Area, 1828 acres.
Newbury (Neubiri, Neubiry) possibly owes its origin to the See also:village of Speen on the other See also:side of the Kennet, which probably marks the site of the See also:Roman station Spinae. The name Newbury (new town or borough) is first mentioned by Odericus Vitalis; it is probable, however, that the See also:manor of Uluritone, entered in Domesday as held by Ernulph de Hesdain and containing fifty-one houses, covered a large part of the site of the town. The manor was subsequently held by the Marshalls, and later by the Mortimers, through whom it passed to the house of See also:York and the See also:crown. It formed part of the See also:dowry of several queens-See also:consort, and was held by Elizabeth before her See also:accession. In 1627 it was granted by See also:Charles I. at a See also:fee-See also:farm to the corporation. Newbury was a borough by See also:prescription; in 1 187 its inhabitants are called " burgesses " and a document of 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:Edward I. speaks of it as " burgus." It was incorporated by a charter of Elizabeth (1596) which was confirmed by Charles I. and Charles II.; a doubtfully valid charter of See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James II. (1685). Newbury sent two representatives to the See also:parliament of 1302 and delegates to a See also:council held in the reign of Edward III.
Newbury See also:early became a centre of the woollen industry,
but at the beginning of the 17th century this was declining. John Kendrick (d. 1624) See also:left a sum of See also:money to benefit the clothing trade and to " set the poor on See also:work," but the result was not what was expected. See also:Elias Ashmole (d. 1628) says: " Newbury had lost most of its clothing trade, which the See also:navigation of the See also:river Kennet hither, now begun, will probably recover "; the trade, however, was already irrevocably lost. The Weavers' Company, which still exists, was incorporated in 16or. In the 18th century a considerable trade was done in See also:corn and See also:malt. Newbury castle, of which traces remained until the 17th century, is said to have been besieged by See also:Stephen in 1152. Newbury was the See also:scene of two battles during the See also:Civil See also:War, in the first of which (1643) See also:Lord See also:Falkland was killed. An important woollen market, established in 1862, is held annually on the first Wednesday in See also:July.
See W. Money, See also:History of Newbury (1887) ; See also:Victoria See also:County History, Berks.
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