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STEYNING , a small See also:market See also:town in the See also:mid See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Sussex, See also:England, 102 m. W.N.W. of See also:Brighton by the See also:London, Brighton & See also:South See also:Coast railway. Pop. (1901), 1705. 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:Andrew retains a very See also:fine See also:series of See also:Norman See also:pier-See also:arches in the See also:nave. Some picturesque old houses remain in the town. See also:Brewing and the manufacture of See also:parchment are carried on.
The Anglo-Saxon church of Steyning (Stoeningas, Stoeningum, Staninges, Stenyges, Stenyng) mentioned in Domesday is attributed to St Cuthman, who is said to have settled here before the 9th See also:century, and whose See also:shrine became a resort for pilgrims. The later prosperity sf the town was due to its See also:harbour. See also:Alfred bequeathed Steyning to his See also:nephew, but it evidently reverted to the See also:Crown, as it was granted by See also:Edward the See also:Confessor to the See also:- ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
- ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
- ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)
abbot and See also:convent of See also:Fecamp, with whom it remained until the 15th century. By ro86 Steyning was a thriving See also:port. It had a market, a See also:mint and two churches, and 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 contained 1 23 burga ges. The decay of the town began in the 14th century owing to the recession of the See also:sea, and it received another See also:blow in the suppression of its priory by See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry IV. It was afterwards granted to the See also:abbey of See also:Sion, which held it until the See also:dissolution. From the reign of Edward IV. to that of See also:Richard III. there isevidence that the town was governed by a See also:bailiff elected annually in the borough-See also:court. Steyning returned two representatives to See also:parliament from 1298 until it was disfranchised in 1832. In the 14th century the abbot of Fecamp held weekly markets in the borough on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and fairs at the Nativity of the Virgin and the Feast of St See also:Michael, by prescriptive right. The See also:present market See also:day is Wednesday, for stock, and a See also:cattle See also:fair is held on the 1 rth of See also:October.
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