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SLEAFORD , a See also:market See also:town in the See also:North Kesteven or Sleaford See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Lincolnshire, See also:England, in a fertile and partly fenny See also:district on the See also:river Slea. Pop. of See also:urban district (19or) 5468. It is 112 M. N. by W. from See also:London by the See also:Great See also:Northern railway, being the junction for several See also:branch lines and for the See also:March-See also:Doncaster See also:joint See also:line of the Great Northern and Great Eastern companies. 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:Denis is one of the finest in the See also:county, exhibiting transitional See also:Norman See also:work in the See also:base of the western See also:tower, which is crowned by an See also:Early See also:English See also:spire, which, however, is mainly a copy of the See also:original. The See also:nave is of beautiful See also:late Decorated work with an ornate See also:south See also:porch. There is a splendid carved See also:rood See also:screen of See also:oak. The See also:chancel is Perpendicular. There are a few picturesque old houses. The district is very fertile, and the See also:trade of the town is principally agricultural, while malting is also carried on.
The See also:discovery of numerous coins of the See also:Constantine See also:period, the earthworks of the See also:castle-See also:area, and its proximity to the See also:ford by which See also:Ermine. See also:Street crossed the See also:Witham, point to the See also:probability of Sleaford (Slaforde, Lafford) being on the site of a See also:Roman See also:settlement or See also:camp, and that the See also:Saxons occupied the site before their See also:conversion to See also:Christianity is evident from the large See also:cemetery discovered here. Domesday See also:Book records that the See also:manor had been held from 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 the See also:Confessor by the bishops of See also:Lindsey, whose successors, the bishops of See also:Lincoln, retained it until it was surrendered to the See also:Crown in 1546. It soon after-wards passed to the See also:family of Carr and from them, by See also:marriage, in 1688 to See also:John See also:Hervey, afterwards See also:earl of See also:Bristol. The See also:quadrilateral castle, with its square towers and massive keep, was built by See also:Alexander, See also:bishop of Lincoln, and became one of the See also:chief episcopal strongholds. 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 rested here in 1216 after his disastrous passage of the See also:Wash, and in 1430 Bishop See also:Richard See also:Fleming died here. The castle was in See also:good repair on its surrender in 1546, but was dismantled before 1600. Sleaford never became a municipal or parliamentary 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, and the See also:government was manorial, the bishops possessing full See also:jurisdiction. The towns-folk were, however, largely organized in the See also:gilds of Corpus Christi, St John and See also:Holy Trinity, accounts for which are extant from the See also:year 1477. The origin of the markets and fairs is unknown, but in See also:answer to a See also:writ of quo warranto of the reign of Edward I., the bishop declared that they had been held from time immemorial.
See See also:Victoria County See also:History, Lincolnshire; G. W. See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas, " On Excavations in an Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Sleaford, Lincolnshire," Archaeologia, vol. i. (London, 1887); Edward See also:Trollope, Sleaford and the Wapentakes of Flaxwell and Aswardhurn in the county of Lincoln (London, 1872).
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