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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 118 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PENRYN , a See also:

market See also:town and See also:port, and municipal and contributary See also:parliamentary See also:borough of See also:Cornwall, See also:England, 2 M. N.W. of See also:Falmouth, on a See also:branch of the See also:Great Western railway. Pop. (1901), 3190. It lies at the See also:head of the See also:estuary of the Penryn See also:River, which opens from the See also:main estuary of the Fal at Falmouth. See also:Granite, which is extensively quarried in the neighbourhood, is dressed and polished at Penryn, and there are also chemical and See also:bone manure See also:works, See also:engineering, See also:iron and See also:gunpowder works, See also:timber-yards, See also:brewing, tanning and See also:paper-making. The See also:harbour dries at See also:low See also:tide, but at high tide has from 9 to 121 ft. of See also:water. See also:Area, 291 acres. Penryn owed its development to the fostering care of the bishops of See also:Exeter within whose See also:demesne lands it stood. These lands appear in Domesday See also:Book under the name of Trelivel. In 1230 See also:Bishop Briwere granted to his burgesses of Penryn that they should hold their burgages freely at a yearly See also:rent of I2d. by the See also:acre for all service. Bishop See also:Walter de Stapeldon secured a market on Thursdays and a See also:fair at the Feast of St See also:Thomas.

The return to the bishop in 1307 was £7, 13S. 22d. from the borough and £26, 7s. 5d. from the See also:

forum. In 1311 Bishop Stapeldon procured a three days' fair at the Feast of St Vitalis. See also:Philip and See also:Mary gave the parliamentary See also:franchise to the burgesses in 1553. See also:James I. granted and renewed the See also:charter of See also:incorporation, providing a See also:mayor, eleven See also:preaching See also:tours in See also:Wales is slenderly supported; they could only have been made during a few months of 1586 or the autumn of 1587. At this See also:time See also:ignorance and immorality abounded in Wales. In 1562 an See also:act of See also:parliament had made See also:provision for translating the See also:Bible into Welsh, and the New Testament was issued in 1567; but the number printed would barely See also:supply a copy for each See also:parish See also:church. Indignant at this See also:negligence, See also:Penry published, See also:early in 1587, The /See also:Equity of an Humble Supplication--in the behalf of the See also:country of Wales, that some See also:order may be taken for the preaching of the See also:Gospel among those See also:people. See also:Archbishop See also:Whitgift, angry at the implied rebuke, caused him to be brought before the High See also:Commission and imprisoned for about a See also:month. On his See also:release Penry married a See also:lady of See also:Northampton, which town was his See also:home for some years. With the assistance of See also:Sir See also:Richard Knightley and others, he set up a See also:printing See also:press, which for nearly a See also:year from Michaelmas 1588 was h1 active operation.

It was successively located at See also:

East Moulsey (See also:Surrey), Fawsley (Northampton), See also:Coventry and other places in See also:Warwickshire, and finally at See also:Manchester, where it was seized in See also:August 1589. On it were printed Penry's Exhortation to the governours and people of Wales, and View of . . . such publike wants and disorders as are in the service of See also:God . . . in Wales; as well as the celebrated See also:Martin Marprelate tracts. In See also:January 1590 his See also:house at Northampton was searched and his papers seized, but he succeeded in escaping to See also:Scotland. There he published several tracts, as well as a See also:translation of a learned theological See also:work known as Theses Genevenses. Returning to England in See also:September 1592, he joined the Separatist Church in See also:London, in which he declined to take See also:office, though after the See also:arrest of the ministers, See also:Francis See also:Johnson and See also:John See also:Greenwood, he seems to have been the See also:regular preacher. He was arrested in See also:March 1593, and efforts were made to find some pretext for a See also:capital See also:charge. Failing this a charge of See also:sedition was based on the rough draft of a See also:petition to the See also:queen that had been found among his private papers; the See also:language of which was indeed harsh and offensive, but had been neither presented nor published. He was convicted by the Queen's See also:Bench on the 21st of May 1593, and hanged on the 29th at the unusual See also:hour of 4 p.m., the See also:signature of his old enemy Whitgift being the first of those affixed to the See also:warrant. aldermen and twelve councillors, markets on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and fairs on the 1st of May, the 7th of See also:July and the 21st of See also:December. The charter having been surrendered, James II. by a new charter inter See also:cilia confined the parliamentary franchise to members of the See also:corporation.

This proviso however was soon disregarded, the franchise being freely exercised by all the inhabitants paying See also:

scot and See also:lot. An See also:attempt to deprive the borough of its members, owing to corrupt practices, was defeated by the House of Lords in 1827. The act of 1832 extended the franchise to Falmouth in spite of the rivalry existing between the two boroughs, which one of the sitting members asserted was so great that no Penryn See also:man was ever known to marry a Falmouth woman. In 1885 the See also:united borough was deprived of one of its members. The corporation of Penryn was remodelled in 1835, the aldermen being reduced to four. Its See also:foreign See also:trade, which See also:dates from the 14th See also:century, is considerable. The extra-parochial collegiate church of Glasney, founded by Bishop Bronescombe in 1265, had a See also:revenue at the time of its suppression under the act of 1545 of £22,,18s. 4d. See See also:Victoria See also:County See also:History, Cornwall; T. C. See also:Peter, Glasney Collegiate Church.

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