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YEOVIL , 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 S. See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Somersetshire, See also:England, on the See also:Great Western and See also:South-Western See also:railways, 127 M. W. by S. of See also:London. Pop. (1901) 9861. The town lies on the See also:river Yeo, and is a thriving See also:place, with a few old houses. 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:John the Baptist is a perpendicular cruciform structure, consisting of See also:chancel, See also:nave of seven bays, aisles, transepts and lofty western See also:tower. There are some 15th- and 16th-See also:century See also:brasses, a dark See also:cradle roof, and an See also:early 13th-century See also:crypt under the chancel. The town is famous for its manufacture of gloves (dating from 1565). Its agricultural See also:trade is consider-able. The town is governed by a See also:mayor, 4 aldermen and 12 councillors. See also:Area, 654 acres. Yeovil (Gyoele, Evill, Ivle, Yeoele) before the See also:Conquest was See also:part of the private domains of the Anglo-Saxon See also:kings. The town owed its origin to trade, and became of some See also:size in the 13th century. In 14th-century documents it is described as a town or borough governed by a portreeve, who frequently came into conflict with the See also:parson of St John's church, who had become See also:lord of the See also:manor of Yeovil during the reign of 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. The See also:corporation in the 18th century consisted of a portreeve and eleven burgesses, and was abolished when the town was reincorporated in 1853.
Fairs on the 17th of See also:July and the 6th of See also:November were held under 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 Henry VII., and were important for the See also:sale of See also:leather and of woollen See also:cloth, both made in the town. The See also:Friday market See also:dates from 1215. There is a great market every other Friday and a monthly See also:horse sale.
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