BODMIN
, 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 Bodmin See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Cornwall, See also:England, the See also:county town, 302 M
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W.N.W. of See also:Plymouth, on branches of the See also:Great Western and See also:London & See also:South-Western See also:railways
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Pop
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(1901) 5353• It lies between two hills in a See also:short valley opening westward upon that of the See also:Camel, at the See also:southern extremity of the high open Bodmin See also:Moor
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The large 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 Petrock, mainly Perpendicular, has earlier portions, and a See also:late See also:Norman See also:font
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See also:East of it there is a ruined Decorated See also:chapel of 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 of See also:Canterbury, with a See also:crypt
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A See also:tower of Tudor date, in the See also:cemetery, marks the site of a chapel of the gild of the See also:Holy See also:Rood
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See also:Part of the buildings of a Franciscan friary, founded c
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1240, are incorporated in the market-See also:house, and the gateway remains in an altered See also:form
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At Bodmin are a See also:prison, with See also:civil and See also:naval departments, the county See also:gaol and See also:asylum, the See also:head-quarters of the constabulary, and those of the See also:duke of Cornwall's
See also:Light See also:Infantry
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See also:Cattle, See also:sheep and See also:horse fairs are held, and there is a considerable agricultural See also:trade
.
The borough is under a See also:mayor, four aldermen and twelve councillors
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See also:Area, 2797 acres
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Traces of See also:Roman occupation have been found in the western part of the See also:parish, belonging to the first See also:century A.D
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Possibly See also:tin-See also:mining was carried on here at that See also:period
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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 a See also:charter by 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 See also:Edred to the See also:prior and canons of Bodmin (Bomine, Bodman, Bodmyn) in respect of lands in See also:Devonshire appears in an inspeximus of 1252
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To its ecclesiastical associations it owed its importance at the 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 of the Domesday survey, when St Petrock held the See also:manor of Bodmin, wherein were sixty-eight houses and one market
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To successive priors, as See also:mesne lords, it also owed its earliest municipal privileges
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King See also:John's charter to the prior and See also:convent, dated the 17th of See also:July 1199, contained a clause (subsequently cancelled by See also:Richard II.) by which burgesses were exempt from being impleaded, touching any tenements in their See also:demesne, except before the king and his See also:chief See also:justice
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Richard of Cornwall, king of the See also:Romans, confirmed to the burgesses their gild See also:merchant, See also:Edward I. the pesage of tin, and Edward II. a market for tin and See also:wool
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See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth in 1563 constituted the town a See also:free borough and the burgesses a See also:body corporate, granting at the same time two fairs and a Saturday market
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There are still held also three other fairs whose origin is uncertain
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An amended charter granted in 1594 remained in force until 1789, when the See also:corporation became See also:extinct owing to the diminution of the burgesses
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By virtue of a new charter of See also:incorporation granted in 1798 and remodelled by the See also:act of 1835, the corporation now consists of a mayor, four aldermen and twelve councillors
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The first members for Bodmin were summoned in 1295
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Retaining both its members in 1832, losing one in 1868 and the other in 1885, it has now become merged in the south-eastern division of the county
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From 1715 to 1837 the assizes were generally held alternately at See also:Launceston and Bodmin; since 1837 they have been held at Bodmin only
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A See also:court of See also:probate has also been held at Bodmin since 1773
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A festival known as " Bodmin See also:Riding " was formerly celebrated here on the See also:Sunday and See also:Monday following St Thomas's See also:day (July 7)
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It is thought by some to have been instituted in 1177 to celebrate the recovery of the bones of St Petrock
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See See also:Victoria County See also:History, Cornwall ; See also:Sir John Maclean, Parochial and See also:Family History of the Deanery of Trigg See also:Minor, Cornwall (3 vols., 1873-1879)
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