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PRITTLEWELL , a residential See also:parish in the 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 of Southend-on-See also:Sea, and in the S.E. See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Essex, See also:England; lying r'i m. inland (N.N.W.) from Southend, with a station on the Southend See also:branch of the See also:Great Eastern 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:Mary the Virgin has See also:fine Perpendicular See also:work and traces of See also:Norman work. There are fragments o( a Cluniac priory of the 12th See also:century. Pop. (19or),. 27,245.
ment of See also:Ardeche, 95 M. S. by W. of See also:Lyons on a branch See also:line of the railway from that See also:city to See also:Nimes. Pop. (1906), See also:town, 3495; See also:commune, 7000. Privas is situated near the Ouveze, here joined by the Mezayon and Chazalon. The town is the seat of a prefecture, a See also:court of assizes and a tribunal of first instance. Other institutions are training colleges for both sexes, a communal See also:college and a lunatic See also:asylum for the departments of Ardeche and See also:DrOme. See also:Silk-milling is carried on. The rearing of silk-See also:worms and the cultivation of the mulberry are widespread See also:industries. There are mines of See also:iron ore in the vicinity. See also:Trade is in silk, tanned See also:leather, See also:game, chestnuts and See also:fruit preserves.
Privas is first heard of in the 12th century, as a See also:possession of the See also:counts of See also:Valentinois, and subsequently became the seat of a See also:separate See also:barony. One of the strongholds of the Reformed Faith, it suffered terribly during the See also:Wars of See also:Religion. In-effectually besieged by the royal troops in 1574, it passed in 1619, by the See also:marriage of the heiress of the barony, Paule de Chambaud, into the possession of the vicomte de Lestrange, a See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:noble. A See also:general rising followed, and in 1629 it was besieged and taken by See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XIII. It was reduced to ruins, and the 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 decreed that it should not be again inhabited; but in 1632, some of the townspeople having fought against Lestrange, who had joined See also:Montmorency's See also:rebellion, the inhabitants were allowed to return. Some See also:ancient houses, which escaped the general destruction, are still See also:standing.
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