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WOKINGHAM , a See also:market See also:town and 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 in the Wokingham See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Berkshire, See also:England, 36 m. W. by S. of See also:London by the See also:South-Western railway, served also by the South-Eastern and See also:Chatham railway. Pop. (1901) 3551. It lies on a slight See also:eminence above a valley tributary to that of the See also:river Loddon, in a well-wooded See also:district on the outskirts of the former royal See also:forest of See also:Windsor. 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 Laurence is Perpendicular, greatly altered by restoration. Two See also:miles See also:west of the town is the See also:village of Bearwood. The See also:trade of Wokingham is principally agricultural. The borough is under a See also:mayor, 4
aldermen and 12 councillors. See also:Area, 557 acres.
Wokingham (Wokyngham, Oakingham, Ockingham), which was within the limits of Windsor Forest, was formerly situated partly in Berkshire and partly in a detached piece of See also:Wiltshire, which is now annexed to Berkshire; the Berkshire portion of the town was in the See also:manor of Sonning, which was held by the bishops of See also:Salisbury from before the See also:Conquest until the reign of See also:Elizabeth. The earliest existing See also:charter to Wokingham is that of Elizabeth (1583), which recites and confirms some See also:ancient customary privileges respecting the See also:election of an See also:alderman and other corporate See also:officers. The governing charter for more than 250 years was that of See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James I. (1612), incorporating it as a See also:free town under the See also:title of the " See also:Alder-See also:man and Burgesses of the Town of Wokingham in the Counties of Berks and Wilts." Under the provisions of the Municipal Corporations See also:Act of 1882 a new charter of See also:incorporation was granted, instituting a municipal See also:body to consist of a mayor, 4 aldermen and 12 councillors. Wokingham was assessed at £5o for See also:ship-See also:money, See also:Reading being assessed at £220. It had at this 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 a manufacture of See also:silk stockings, which flourished as See also:early as 1625, and survived up to the 19th See also:century. The town shared in the benefactions of See also:Laud, whose See also:father was See also:born there. The Tuesday market, which is still held and which, during the first See also:half of the 19th century, was famous for poultry, was granted to the See also:bishop of Salisbury 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 III. (1219), who also granted (1258) two See also:annual fairs to be held on the See also:vigil, See also:day and morrow of St See also:Barnabas and All See also:Saints respectively; the latter is still kept up, the former appears in the See also:list of fairs held in 1792.
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