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SPALDING , a See also:market See also:town in the See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland or Spalding See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Lincolnshire, See also:England, on the See also:river Welland, and on the See also:Great See also:Northern and Great Eastern See also:railways, 93 M. N. from See also:London. Pop. of See also:urban See also:district (1901), 9385. The town is the centre of a See also:rich agricultural district. The See also:parish 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 and St See also:Nicholas was built in 1284 and is of See also:peculiar construction, having four aisles to the See also:nave. It is mainly Decorated in See also:style. The adjoining See also:lady See also:chapel (St Mary and St 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 a See also:Becket) was built in 1315; in 1588 it was appropriated for the See also:grammar school endowed in 1568 by See also:John Blanke and again in 1588 by John Gamlyn. A new grammar school was erected in 1881. There are several See also:modern churches and chapels, a See also:corn See also:exchange, a See also:Christian association and See also:literary See also:institute, and the See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson See also:hospital (1881, endowed). The existing high See also:bridge over the Welland, constructed in 1838, took the See also:place of a wooden erection dating from the end of the 17th See also:century; this last was built on the site of a See also:Roman bridge of two See also:arches, the See also:foundations of the centre See also:pier of which were disclosed when the wooden bridge was constructed. See also:Trade is principally agricultural, and there is considerable See also:water-See also:traffic on the Welland.
Although there are no traces of See also:settlement at Spalding (Spaltnige) before See also:late Saxon times there was probably a See also:village here before Thorold the See also:sheriff founded his See also:cell of See also:Crowland See also:Abbey in 1051. In Domesday See also:Book the See also:manor is said to belong to No de Taillebois, who possessed a market there See also:worth 4os., six See also:fisheries and See also:rent from See also:salt-pans. The manor was afterwards granted to See also:Angers, and later belonged to Spalding Priory, which retained it until at the suppression it passed to the See also:Crown. See also:Stephen made Spalding Priory See also:free of See also:toll, while John gave the monks See also:forest rights. The town was governed by the See also:prior's manorial See also:court, and never became a parliamentary or 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. The prior obtained the See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant of the See also:Friday market in 1242, and in the reign of See also:Edward I. claimed from of old fairs on the feast of St Nicholas and fifteen days following, and on the See also:vigil and See also:octave of St See also:Cross. In more modern times Spalding was well known for the See also:club known as the " See also:Gentleman's Society," founded in 1710 by See also:Maurice Johnson, which met once a See also:week at a See also:coffee-See also:house in the town for the discussion of literary and antiquarian subjects, and numbered among its members See also:Newton, See also:Bentley, See also:Addison, See also:Pope and See also:Gay.
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