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LOSTWITHIEL , a marketSee also: town and municipal See also: borough in the $odmin See also: parliamentary division of See also: Cornwall, See also: England, 302 M
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W. of See also: Plymouth by the See also: Great Western railway
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Pop
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(1901) 1379
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It is pleasantly situated on the See also: banks of the See also: river See also: Fowey
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The See also: church of St Bartholomew is remarkable for a
See also: fine Early See also: English tower surmounted by a Decorated See also: spire; there are also beautiful Decorated windows and details in the See also: body of the church, and a richly carved octagonal font
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A See also: bridge of the 14th century crosses the river
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The See also: shire See also: hall includes remains of a
See also: building, called the Stannary prison, dating from the 13th century
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The Great Western railway has workshops at Lostwithiel
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Lostwithiel owed its See also: ancient liberties—probably its existence—to the neighbouring See also: castle of Restormel
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The See also: Pipe Rolls (1194-1203) show that Robert de Cardinan, See also: lord of Restormel, paid ten marks yearly for having a market at Lostwithiel
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By an undated charter still preserved with the corporation's muniments he surrendered to the burgesses all the liberties given them by his predecessors (antecessores) when they founded the town
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These included hereditary succession to tenements, exemption from sullage, the right to elect a reeve (praepositus) if the grantor thought one necessary and the right to marry without the lord's interference . By Isolda, granddaughter of Robert de Cardinan, the town was given toSee also: Richard, See also: king of the
See also: Romans, who in the third See also: year of his reign granted to the burgesses a gild See also: merchant See also: sac and See also: soc, See also: toll, team and infangenethef, freedom from pontage, lastage, &c., throughout Cornwall, and exemption from the jurisdiction of the See also: hundred and county courts, also a yearly See also: fair and a weekly market
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Richard transferred the assizes from See also: Launceston to Lostwithiel
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His son Edmund, See also: earl of Cornwall, built a great hall at Lostwithiel and decreed that the coinage of tin should be at Lostwithiel only
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In 1325 Richard's charter was confirmed and the market ordered to be held on Thursdays
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In 1386 the assizes were transferred back to Launceston
.
In 1609 a charter of incorporation provided for a mayor, See also: recorder, six capital burgesses and seventeen assistants and courts of record and See also: pie powder
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The boundaries of the borough were extended in 1733
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Under the reformed charter granted in 1885 the corporation consists of a mayor, four aldermen and twelve councillors
.
From 1305 to 1832 two members represented
Lostwithiel in parliament
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The electors after 16o9 were th. twenty-five members of the corporation
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Under the Reform See also: Act (1832) the borough became merged in the county
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For the See also: Thursday market granted in 1326 a Friday market was sub stituted in 1733, and this continues to be held
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The fair granted in 1326 and the three fairs granted in 1733 have all given place to others
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The archdeacon's See also: court, the sessions and the county elections were long held at Lostwithiel, but all have now been removed
.
For the victory gained by See also: Charles I. over the earl of
See also: Essex in 1644, see GREAT See also: REBELLION
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