See also:SIR 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 See also:COVENTRY (c. 1628-1686)
, See also:English statesman, son of the See also:lord. keeper, 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, Lord See also:Coventry, by his second
r See also:Hacket's See also:Life of See also:Bishop See also:Williams, ii
.
19
.
2 See also:Rushworth (168o), See also:part ii. vol. i
.
294
.
3 See also:Ath
.
Oxon. ii
.
65o
.
' There is an adverse See also:opinion also expressed in See also:Pepys's See also:Diary, See also:August 26, 1666, probably based on little real knowledge.wife See also:Elizabeth Aldersley, was See also:born about 1628
.
He matriculated at See also:Queen's See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, at the See also:age of fourteen
.
Owing to the outbreak of the See also:Civil See also:War he was obliged to quit his studies, but according to See also:Sir See also:John Bramston " he had a See also:good See also:tutor who made him a See also:scholar, and he travelled and got the See also:French See also:language in good perfection." " He was See also:young whilst the war continued," wrote See also:Clarendon, " yet he had put himself before the end of it into the See also:army and had the command of a See also:foot See also:company and shortly after travelled into See also:France." Here he remained till all hopes of obtaining See also:foreign assistance and of raising a new army had to be laid aside, when he returned to See also:England and kept aloof from the various royalist intrigues
.
When, however, a new prospect of a restoration appeared in 166o, Coventry hastened to See also:Breda, was appointed secretary to 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, See also:duke of See also:York, lord high See also:admiral of England, and headed the royal procession when See also:Charles entered See also:London in See also:triumph
.
He was returned to the Restoration See also:parliament of 1661 for See also:Great See also:Yarmouth, became See also:commissioner for the See also:navy in May 1662 and in 1663 was made D.C.L. at Oxford
.
His great talents were very soon recognized in parliament, and his See also:influence as an See also:official was considerable
.
His See also:appointment was rather that of secretary to the See also:admiralty than of See also:personal assistant to the duke of York,5 and was one of large gains
.
See also:Wood states that he collected a See also:fortune of £6o,000
.
Accusations of corruption in his See also:naval See also:administration, and especially during the Dutch war, were brought against him, but there is nothing to show that he ever transgressed the limits sanctioned by usage and See also:custom in obtaining his emoluments
.
Pepys in his diary invariably testifies to the excellence of his administration and to his zeal for reform and See also:economy
.
His ability and See also:energy, however, did little to avert thelnaval collapse, owing chiefly to See also:financial mismanagement and to the See also:ill-advised appointments to command
.
Coventry denied all responsibility for the Dutch War in 1665, which Clarendon sought to See also:place upon his shoulders, and his repudiation is supported by Pepys; it was, moreover, contrary to his well-known See also:political opinion
.
The war greatly increased his influence, and shortly after the victory off See also:Lowestoft, on the 3rd of See also:June 1665, he was knighted and made a privy councillor (26th of June) and was subsequently admitted to the See also:committee on foreign affairs
.
In 1667 he was appointed to the See also:board of See also:treasury to effect financial reforms
.
" I perceive," writes Pepys on the 23rd of August 1667, " Sir 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 Coventry is the See also:man and nothing done till he comes," and on his removal in 1669 the duke of See also:Albemarle, no friendly or partial critic, declares that " nothing now would be well done." His appointment, however, came too See also:late to See also:- WARD
- WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM (1837- )
- WARD, ARTEMUS
- WARD, EDWARD MATTHEW (1816-1879)
- WARD, ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (1844-1911)
- WARD, JAMES (1769--1859)
- WARD, JAMES (1843– )
- WARD, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1830-1910)
- WARD, LESTER FRANK (1841– )
- WARD, MARY AUGUSTA [MRS HUMPHRY WARD]
- WARD, WILLIAM (1766-1826)
- WARD, WILLIAM GEORGE (1812-1882)
ward off the naval disaster at See also:Chatham the same See also:year and the See also:national See also:bankruptcy in 1672
.
Meanwhile Coventry's rising influence had been from the first the cause of increasing See also:jealousy to the old See also:chancellor Clarendon, who especially disliked and discouraged the younger See also:generation
.
Coventry resented this repression and thought ill of the conduct of the administration
.
He became the See also:chief mover in the successful attack made upon Clarendon, but refused to take any part it, his See also:impeachment
.
Two days after Clarendon's resignation (on the 31st of August), Coventry announced his intention of leaving the duke's service and of terminating his connexion with the navy.6 As the See also:principal See also:agent in effecting Clarendon's fall he naturally acquired new See also:power and influence, and the See also:general opinion pointed to him as his successor as first See also:minister of the See also:crown
.
Personal merit, patriotism and conspicuous ability, however, were poor passports to place and power in Charles II.'s reign
.
Coventry retained merely his appointment at the treasury, and the brilliant but unscrupulous and incapable duke of See also:- BUCKINGHAM
- BUCKINGHAM, EARLS, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- BUCKINGHAM, FIRST DUKE
- BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE VILLIERS, 1ST DUKE 0E1
- BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE VILLIERS, 2ND DUKE 0E1 (1628-1687)
- BUCKINGHAM, HENRY STAFFORD, 2ND DUKE OF3 (1454-1483)
- BUCKINGHAM, JAMES SILK (1786-1855)
Buckingham, a favourite 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, succeeded to Lord Clarendon
.
The relations between the two men soon became unfriendly
.
Buckingham ridiculed Sir William's steady See also:attention to business, and was annoyed at his opposition to Clarendon's impeachment
.
Coventry rapidly lost influence, was excluded from the See also:cabinet See also:council, and six months after Clarendon's fall complains he has scarcely a friend at See also:court
.
Finally, in See also:March
6 Pepysiana, by H
.
B
.
See also:Wheatley (1903), 154
.
6 Foxcroft, Life of Sir G
.
See also:Savile, i
.
54
.
1669, Buckingham having written a See also:play in which Sir William was ridiculed, the latter sent him a See also:challenge
.
See also:Notice of the challenge reached the authorities through the duke's second, and Sir William was imprisoned in the See also:Tower on the 3rd of March and subsequently expelled from the privy council
.
He was superseded in the treasury on the r 1th of March by Buckingham's favourite, Sir Thomas See also:Osborne, afterwards See also:earl of See also:Danby and duke of See also:Leeds, and was at last released from the Tower on the 21st in disgrace
.
The real cause of his dismissal was clearly the final See also:adoption by Charles of the policy of subservience to France and See also:desertion of See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland and See also:Protestant interests
.
Six See also:weeks before Coventry's fall, the See also:conference between Charles, James, See also:Arlington, See also:Clifford and See also:Arundel had taken place, which resulted a year and a See also:half later in the disgraceful treaty of See also:Dover
.
To such schemes Sir William, with his steady hostility to France and active devotion to Protestantism, was doubtless a formidable opponent
.
He now withdrew definitely from official life, still retaining, however, his ascendancy in the See also:House of See also:Commons, and leading the party which condemned and criticized the reactionary and fatal policy of the See also:government, his See also:credit and reputation being rather enhanced than diminished by his dismissal.'
In 1673 was published a pamphlet which went through five See also:editions the same year, entitled England's See also:appeal from the Private See also:Cabal at See also:Whitehall to the Great Council of the Nation
..
. by a true See also:Lover of his See also:Country, an See also:anonymous See also:work universally ascribed to Sir William, which forcibly reflects his opinions on the French entanglement
.
In the great See also:matter of the See also:Indulgence, while refusing to discuss the limits of See also:prerogative and See also:liberty, he argued that the dispensing power of the crown could not be valid during the session of parliament, and criticized the manner of the See also:declaration while approving its ostensible See also:object.•
.
He sup-ported the Test See also:Act, but maintained a statesmanlike moderation amidst the See also:tide of indignation rising against the government, and refused to take part in the personal attacks upon ministers, See also:drawing upon himself the same unpopularity as his See also:nephew See also:Halifax incurred later
.
In the same year he warmly denounced the See also:alliance with France
.
During the summer of 1674 he was again received at court
.
In 1675 he supported the See also:bill to exclude See also:Roman Catholics from both Houses, and also the measure to See also:close the House of Commons to placemen; and he showed great activity in his opposition to the French connexion, especially stigmatizing the encouragement given by the government to the levying of troops for the French service
.
In May 1677 he voted for the Dutch alliance
.
Like most of his contemporaries he accepted the See also:story of the popish See also:plot in 1678
.
Coventry several times refused the highest court appointments, and he was not included in Sir W
.
See also:Temple's new-modelled council in See also:April 1679
.
In the exclusion question he favoured at first a policy of limitations, and on his nephew Halifax, who on his retirement became the See also:leader of the moderate party, he enjoined prudence and See also:patience, and greatly regretted the violence of the opposition which eventually excited a reaction and ruined everything
.
He refused to stand for the new parliament, and retired to his country See also:residence at See also:Minster See also:Lovell near See also:Witney, in See also:Oxfordshire
.
He died unmarried on the 23rd of June 1686, at Somerhill near Tunbridge See also:Wells, where he had gone to take the See also:waters, and was buried at See also:Penshurst, where a See also:monument was erected to his memory
.
In his will he ordered his funeral to be at small expense, and See also:left £2000 to the French Protestant refugees in England, besides £3000 for the liberation of captives in See also:Algiers
.
He had shortly before his See also:death already paid for the liberation of sixty slaves
.
He was much beloved and respected in his See also:family circle, his nephew, 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 Savile, alluding to him in affectionate terms as " our dearest See also:uncle " and " incomparable friend."
Though Sir William Coventry never filled that place in the national administration to which his merit and exceptional ability clearly entitled him, his public life together with his See also:correspondence are sufficient to distinguish him from amongst his contemporaries as a statesman of the first See also:rank
.
Lord Halifax obviously derived from his honoured See also:mentor those principles of government which, by means of his own brilliant
' Savile Correspondence (See also:Camden See also:Soc.), 295
.
intellectual gifts, originality and imaginative insight, gained further force and influence
.
Halifax owed to him his See also:interest in the navy and his grasp of the See also:necessity to a country of a powerful maritime force
.
He See also:drew his antagonism to France, his religious tolerance, wide'religious views but See also:firm Protestantism doubtless from the same source
.
Sir William was the See also:original "See also:Trimmer." See also:Writing to his nephew See also:Viscount See also:Weymouth, while denying the authorship of The See also:Character of a Trimmer, he says:—" I have not been ashamed to own myself to be a trimmer
.
. . one who would sit upright and not overturn the See also:boat by swaying too much to either See also:side." He shared the Trimmer's dislike of party, urging Halifax in the exclusion contest " not to be thrust by the opposition of his enemies into another party, but that he keep upon a national bottom which at length will prevail." His. prudence is expressed in his "perpetual unwillingness to do things which I cannot undo." " A singular See also:independence of spirit, a breadth of mind which refused to be contracted by party formulas, a sanity which was See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof against the contagion of national See also:delirium, were equally characteristic of uncle and nephew." 2 Sir William Coventry's conceptions of statesmanship, under the guiding See also:hand of his nephew, largely inspired the future revolution See also:settlement, and continued to be an essential See also:condition of English political growth and progress
.
Besides the See also:tract already mentioned Coventry was the author of A See also:Letter to Dr See also:Burnet giving an See also:Account of See also:Cardinal See also:Pool's See also:Secret See also:Powers
.
.
.
(1685)
.
The Character of a Trimmer, often ascribed to him, is now known to have been written by Lord Halifax
.
" Notes concerning the Poor," and an See also:essay" concerning the decay of rents and the remedy," are among the See also:Malet Papers (Hist
.
See also:MSS
.
See also:Comm
.
See
.
5th See also:Rep. app
.
320 (a)) and Add
.
MSS
.
Brit
.
See also:Mus
.
(cal
.
1882–1887); an " Essay concerning France " (4th Rep. app
.
229 (b)) and a "Discourse on the Management of the Navy " (23ob) are among the MSS. of the See also:marquess of See also:Bath, also a See also:catalogue of his library (233(a)),
COVENT'RY, a municipal, See also:county and See also:parliamentary 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 of See also:Warwickshire, England; 94 M
.
N.W. from London by the London & See also:North Western railway
.
Pop
.
(1901) 69,978
.
The Coventry See also:canal communicates with the See also:Trent and See also:Mersey and See also:Birmingham canals, and the midland See also:system generally
.
Coventry stands on a See also:gentle See also:eminence, with higher ground lying to the See also:west, and is watered by the Sherbourne and the Radford See also:Brook, feeders of the See also:Avon, which unite within the See also:town
.
Of its See also:ancient fortifications two See also:gates and some portions of the See also:wall are still extant, and several of the older streets are picturesque from the number of half-timbered houses projecting over the footways
.
The most remarkable buildings are the churches; of these the See also:oldest are St See also:Michael's, one of the finest specimens of Perpendicular See also:architecture in England, with a beautiful See also:steeple rising to a height of 303 ft.; See also:Holy Trinity 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, a cruciform structure with a lofty steeple at the intersection ; and St John's, or Bablake church, which is nearly a parallelogram on the ground See also:plan, but cruciform in the See also:clerestory with a central tower
.
See also:Christ church See also:dates only from 1832, but it is attached to the ancient See also:spire of the See also:Grey Friars' church
.
Of See also:secular buildings the most interesting is St See also:Mary's See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall, erected by the See also:united See also:gilds in the See also:early part of the 15th See also:century
.
The principal chamber,
' Foxcroft's Life of Sir G
.
Savile, i
.
36
.
situated above a See also:fine See also:crypt, is 76 ft. See also:long, 30 ft. wide and 34 ft. high; its roof is of carved See also:oak, and in the north end there is a large window of old stained See also:glass, with a curious piece of See also:tapestry beneath nearly as old as the See also:building
.
In the treasury is preserved a valuable collection of ancient muniments
.
A statue of Sir Thomas See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
White, lord See also:mayor of London (1532-1533), founder of St John's College, Oxford, was erected in 1883
.
The See also:cemetery, laid out by Sir See also:Joseph See also:Paxton, the architect and landscape gardener, and enlarged in 1887, is particularly beautiful
.
The educational institutions include a well-endowed See also:free See also:grammar school, founded in the reign of Elizabeth, in See also:modern buildings (1885), a technical school, school of See also:art, endowed charity See also:schools, and a county reformatory for girls; and among the charitable See also:foundations, which are numerous and valuable, See also:Bond's See also:hospital for old men and See also:Ford's hospital for old See also:women are remarkable as fine specimens of ancient See also:timber work
.
Swanswell and See also:Spenser Parks were opened in 1883, and a recreation ground in 1880
.
Coventry was formerly noted for its woollens, and subsequently acquired such a reputation for its See also:dyeing that the expression " as true as Coventry See also:blue " became proverbial
.
Existing See also:industries are the making of motor cars, cycles and their accessories, for which Coventry is one of the chief centres in Great See also:Britain; sewing See also:machines are also produced; and See also:carpet-See also:weaving and dyeing, art See also:- METAL
- METAL (through Fr. from Lat. metallum, mine, quarry, adapted from Gr. µATaXAov, in the same sense, probably connected with ,ueraAAdv, to search after, explore, µeTa, after, aAAos, other)
metal working and See also:watch making are carried on
.
An ancient See also:fair is held in Whit-See also:week
.
A county of itself till 1843, the town became a county borough in 1888
.
The See also:corporation consists of a mayor, 10 aldermen and 30 councillors
.
The parliamentary borough returns one member
.
In 1894 a See also:suffragan bishopric of Coventry was established under the see of See also:Worcester, but no longer exists
.
See also:Area, 4149 acres
.
The See also:village which afterwards became important as Coventry (Coventreu, Coventre) owed its existence to the See also:foundation of a See also:Benedictine monastery by Earl See also:Leofric and his wife Godgyfu, the famous See also:Lady See also:Godiva (q.v.), in 1043
.
The See also:manor, which in ,o66 belonged to the latter, descended to the earls of See also:Chester and to See also:Robert de Montalt, and from him passed to See also:Isabella queen of See also:Edward II. and the crown
.
Ranulf, earl of Chester, granted the earliest extant See also:charter to the town in 1153, by which his burgesses were to hold of him in free See also:burgage as they held of his See also:father, and to have their portmote
.
This, with further privileges, was confirmed by Henry II. in 1177, and by nearly every succeeding See also:sovereign until the 17th century
.
In 1345 Edward III. gave Coventry a corporation, mayor and bailiffs empowered to hold pleas and keep the town See also:prison
.
Edward the See also:Black See also:Prince granted the mayor and bailiffs the right to hold the town in See also:fee See also:farm of £So and to build a wall
.
In 1452 Henry VI. formed the See also:city and surrounding hamlets into a county, and James I. incorporated Coventry in 1622
.
It first sent two representatives to parliament •in 1295, but the returns were irregular
.
The See also:prior's See also:market on Fridays was probably o