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WISBECH , a 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, See also:market See also:town, and See also:port in the Wisbech See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Cambridgeshire, See also:England, 38 M. N. by W. of See also:Cambridge, on the See also:Great Eastern and the Great See also:Northern and Midland See also:joint See also:railways. It lies in the See also:flat fen See also:country, on the See also:river Nene (mainly on the See also:east See also:bank), 11 m. from its outlet on the See also:Wash. By the Wisbech See also:canal it has communication with the See also:Ouse. 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:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter and St See also:Paul has a See also:double See also:nave, with aisles, the See also:north See also:arcade being See also:Norman; but the See also:rest of the See also:building is mainly Decorated and Perpendicular. There are remains of a Norman See also:west See also:tower; the Perpendicular tower stands on the north See also:side. The museum contains a valuable library and various collections, including antiquities and See also:objects of See also:art and natural See also:history. Other institutions include a See also:grammar school founded in the See also:middle of the 16th See also:century and provided for by a See also:charter of See also:Edward VI., the Cambridgeshire See also:hospital, a See also:custom-See also:house, a See also:cattle-market, and an important See also:corn-See also:exchange, for Wisbech has a large See also:trade in See also:grain. A See also:Gothic See also:monument commemorates 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 See also:Clarkson (176o-1846), a powerful opponent of the slave-trade, and a native of the town. The See also:shipping trade is carried on both at the town itself and at See also:Sutton See also:Bridge, 8 m. See also:lower down the river. The See also:chief imports are See also:coal, See also:timber and See also:iron, and the exports grain and other agricultural products and See also:salt. See also:Foreign trade is chiefly with the See also:Russian Baltic ports. In the neighbourhood large quantities of See also:fruit are grown, including apples, See also:pears, plums, gooseberries, and strawberries. Potatoes, See also:asparagus, and other vegetables are also grown for the See also:London market. The town possesses agricultural See also:implement See also:works, See also:coach-building works, breweries, ropeworks, planing and sawing See also:mills, and corn and oil-cake mills. The borough is under a See also:mayor, 6 aldermen, and 18 councillors. See also:Area, 6476 acres.
Wisbech (Wisebec, i.e. Ousebec) is near a See also:Roman See also:embankment and tumuli. About 940 the See also:manor is said to have been given to the See also:abbey of See also:Ely by Oswy and Leoflede; 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 held it in ,o86; and it became attached to the see of Ely with the other possessions of the monastery. The See also:castle is alleged to have been built by See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William I., and was converted from a fortress in the See also:fens into an episcopal See also:palace between 1471 and 1473. The growth of Wisbech depended on its position and episcopal patronage. In 1190 tenants of Wisbech See also:Barton acquired an exemption from tolls throughout England, confirmed by See also:John, 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. and Henry V. The Gild of the See also:Holy Trinity is mentioned in 1399, and See also:grew See also:rich and powerful. After its See also:dissolution the townsmen became, in 1549, a See also:corporation holding of 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, by a charter which transferred to them the See also:property and duties of the gild, and was renewed in 16ro and 1669. By the Municipal Corporations See also:Act of 1835 a mayor, aldermen and a See also:council replaced the See also:capital burgesses, the older governing See also:body. The borough returned a member only to the See also:parliament of 1658; its elected member, Secretary See also:Thurloe, See also:chose then to represent another See also:constituency. A See also:fair of twenty days from the See also:vigil of Holy Trinity was granted to the See also:bishop of Ely in 1327. The mart still occupies by custom the See also:interval between See also:Lynn mart, of which it is probably an offshoot, and See also:Stamford fair in See also:mid-See also:- LENT (0. Eng. lenclen, " spring," M. Eng. lenten, lente, lent; cf. Dut. lente, Ger. Lenz, " spring," 0. H. Ger. lenzin, lengizin, lenzo, probably from the same root as " long " and referring to " the lengthening days ")
Lent. A See also:pleasure fair, called the See also:Statute Fair, takes See also:place shortly before Michaelmas. Importance attaches to the See also:horse fair, held in 1827 in the See also:week before Whitsuntide and now on theof the See also:Mississippi.
See also:Physical Features.—See also:Wisconsin forms See also:part of the inner margin of an See also:ancient coastal See also:plain and the oldland of crystalline rocks about which the plain sediments were deposited. The plain and the old-See also:land were well worn down by erosion and then were uplifted; were dissected by stream valleys, and were glaciated. The See also:surface is generally See also:rolling and undulating, comprising, with the Upper See also:Peninsula of See also:Michigan, a swelling See also:elevation of land between the three depressions represented by Lakes Michigan and See also:Superior and the Mississippi and the St Croix See also:rivers. The lowest elevations are in the See also:southern and central portions of the See also:state, where the See also:altitude averages between 58o and 600 ft. above See also:sea-level. The highest points in the state are residual masses of relatively resistant See also:rock rising above the erosion surface; such are: See also:Rib See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill (1940 ft.) in See also:Marathon See also:county, in the north-central part, and some of the peaks of the Penokee Range in the N. part of the state, which are about 1800 ft. high. From the N. highland two heights of land (1200 to 1600 ft.) extend southward well into the central portions of the state, dividing the greater part of its area into two natural drainage basins. The westernmost of these elevations separates the valleys of the Mississippi, and the St Croix from that of the Wisconsin river. The eastern elevation is a See also:ridge or See also:cuesta formed by an outcropping hard layer of the ancient coastal plain ; and it separates the Wisconsin river See also:basin from the See also:Fox River Valley and the streams flowing into See also:Lake Michigan. Along the Mississippi and the Wisconsin runs a See also:chain of bluffs varying in height from 200 to 300 ft., and in the E. a rocky See also:limestone ridge or cuesta some 30 M. back from Lake Michigan extends from the See also:Door county peninsula, E. of Lake See also:Winnebago and as far See also:south as the See also:Illinois See also:line. There are no large rivers flowing into Lake Superior and very little drainage in that direction, as from a point some 30 M. S. of the lake all the streams flow in a southerly direction. The Mississippi is the drainage basin for a greater part of the state. The St Croix river rises in the S.W. part of the Penokee Range and flows W. and S., forming the western boundary of the state for 135 M. before it joins the Mississippi 20 M. below St Paul. Before it is joined by the Wisconsin, the Mississippi
1 The See also:badger is not found in the state, and the name probably originated as a See also:nickname for 'those See also:lead miners N. of the Illinois line who came from the East, *lo lived in dug-outs like the hillside burrows of the badger, and who did not go See also:home in See also:winter like the miners from southern Illinois and farther south, who were called " suckers," a name borrowed from the migrating See also:fish in the Rock, Illinois and other rivers flowing south. The name " suckers " was applied generally to all the See also:people of Illinois, and the name " badgers " to the people of Wisconsin and " badger state " to the state.
2 Besides the area as given here, the state has See also:jurisdiction over approximately 7500 sq. m. of Lake Michigan and 2378 sq. m. of Lake Superior.
second See also:Thursday in May and on See also:July 25, and to the cattle fair in the beginning of See also:August. Saturday was market See also:day in 1792; a corn market is now held on Saturday, a cattle market on Thursday and Saturday. In so86 eels were prolific in Wisbech See also:water. The port was noteworthy until a diversion of the Ouse, before 1292, rendered it hardly accessible. Drainage restored trade before 1634, and the act of 1773 for making Kinderley's Cut was the beginning of prosperity. From 1783 to 1825 agricultural produce was exported and coal imported. See also:Hemp and See also:flax had an importance, lost between 1827 and 1849, but responsible in 1792 for fairs on Saturday and See also:Monday before See also:Palm See also:Sunday.
See W. See also:Watson, History of Wisbech (Wisbech, 1827) ; N. See also:- WALKER, FRANCIS AMASA (1840-1897)
- WALKER, FREDERICK (184o--1875)
- WALKER, GEORGE (c. 1618-169o)
- WALKER, HENRY OLIVER (1843— )
- WALKER, HORATIO (1858– )
- WALKER, JOHN (1732—1807)
- WALKER, OBADIAH (1616-1699)
- WALKER, ROBERT (d. c. 1658)
- WALKER, ROBERT JAMES (1801-1869)
- WALKER, SEARS COOK (1805—1853)
- WALKER, THOMAS (1784—1836)
- WALKER, WILLIAM (1824-1860)
Walker and C. Thomas, History of Wisbech (Wisbech, 1849) ; History of Wisbech (Wisbech and London, 1833).
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