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PADSTOW , a small seaport and See also: market See also:town in the St Austell See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Cornwall, See also:England, on a See also:branch of the See also:London & See also:South Western railway. Pop. of See also:urban See also:district (1901), 1566. It lies near the See also:north See also:coast, on the See also:west See also:shore, and 2 M. from the mouth of the See also:estuary of the See also:river See also:Camel, a picturesque inlet which from Padstow See also:Bay penetrates 6 m. into the See also:land. 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 Petrock, with a massive roodstone in the See also:churchyard, is mainly Perpendicular, with an See also:Early
See also:English See also:tower. Within are an See also:ancient See also:font, a canopied See also:piscina, and a See also:fine See also:timber roof over the See also:nave and aisles. Other interesting churches in the locality are those of St Petrock See also:Minor, St Minver, St See also:Michael, St See also:Constantine, and, most remarkable of all, St Enodock's. This See also:building, erected in the 15th See also:century amid the barren See also:dunes bordering the See also:east shore of the estuary near its mouth, in See also:place of a more ancient See also:oratory, was See also:long buried beneath drifts of See also:sand. From a little distance only the See also:weather-beaten See also:spire can be seen. A See also:Norman font remains from the older See also:foundation. A monastery formerly stood on the high ground west of Padstow, and according to tradition was founded by St Petrock in the 6th and razed by the Danes in the loth century. Its site is occupied by Prideaux Place, an Elizabethan See also:mansion, which contains among other valuable pictures See also:Van Dyck's portrait of See also:Queen Henrietta Maria. Pentine Point shelters Padstow Bay on the north-east, but the approach to the estuary is dangerous during north-See also:westerly See also:gales. See also: Pad-See also:stow, nevertheless, is a valuable See also:harbour of See also:refuge, although the river channel is narrow and much silted. Dredging, however, is prosecuted, the sand being sent inland, being useful as a manure through the carbonate of See also:lime with which it is impregnated. The Padstow Harbour Association (1829) is devoted to the See also:- RESCUE (in Middle Eng. rescous, from O. Fr. recousse, Low Lat. rescussa, from reexcussa,reexcutere, to shake off again, re, again, ex, off, quatere, to shake)
rescue of See also:ships in See also:distress, making no claims for See also:salvage beyond the sums necessary for its See also:maintenance. Padstow has See also:fisheries and shipyards and some agricultural See also:trade.
Padstow (Aldestowe 1273, Patrikstowe 1326, Patrestowe 1346) and St Ives are the only two tolerably safe harbours on the 'north coast of Cornwall. To this circumstance they both owed their selection for early See also:settlement. St Petrock, who has been called the See also:patron See also:saint of Cornwall, is said to have landed here and also to have died here in the 6th century. 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 See also:Bodmin, which treasured the saint's remains, had become the See also:chief centre of religious See also:influence. Padstow is not mentioned in that See also:record. It was included in the See also:bishop of See also:Exeter's See also:manor of Pawton, which had been annexed to the see of See also:Crediton upon its formation by See also:Edward the See also:Elder in 909. Padstow was plundered by the Danes in 981. Until then it is said to have possessed a monastery, which thereupon was transferred to Bodmin. Two manors of Padstow are mentioned later—the See also: prior of Bodmin's manor, which included the rectory, and a manor which passed from the Bonvilles to the Greys, marquesses of See also:Dorset, both of which were eventually acquired by the See also:family of Prideaux. From the letters patent addressed to the bailiffs of Padstow demanding the survey and delivery of ships for See also:foreign service, the See also:appointment of a 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's See also:- BUTLER
- BUTLER (or BOTELER), SAMUEL (1612–168o)
- BUTLER (through the O. Fr. bouteillier, from the Late Lat. buticularius, buticula, a bottle)
- BUTLER, ALBAN (1710-1773)
- BUTLER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1818-1893)
- BUTLER, CHARLES (1750–1832)
- BUTLER, GEORGE (1774-1853)
- BUTLER, JOSEPH (1692-1752)
- BUTLER, NICHOLAS MURRAY (1862– )
- BUTLER, SAMUEL (1774-1839)
- BUTLER, SAMUEL (1835-1902)
- BUTLER, SIR WILLIAM FRANCIS (1838– )
- BUTLER, WILLIAM ARCHER (1814-1848)
butler for the See also:port, and the frequent recourse which was had to the king's courts for the settlement of disputes of See also:shipping, Padstow appears to have been a port of considerable repute in the 14th century. Its affairs were entrusted to a See also:reeve or See also:bailiff acting in See also:conjunction with the See also:principal men of the town. In 1540. See also:Leland, without sufficient See also:reason, credits See also:Athelstan with the bestowal of such privileges as it then enjoyed, and describes it as a See also:parish full of fishermen and Irishmen. See also:Forty years later See also:Norden describes it as an See also:incorporation and market town. See also:Carew in 1602 states that it had lately See also:purchased a See also:corporation and derived See also:great profit from its trade with See also:Ireland. Some steps towards incorporation were doubtless taken, but it is remarkable that no traces of its municipal See also:character are discoverable in any subsequent records. A prescriptive market is held on Saturdays; two fairs of like nature have disappeared.
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