LOSTWITHIEL
, 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 $odmin See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Cornwall, See also:England, 302 M
.
W. of See also:Plymouth by the See also:Great Western railway
.
Pop
.
(1901) 1379
.
It is pleasantly situated on the See also:banks of the See also:river See also:Fowey
.
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:Bartholomew is remarkable for a See also:fine See also:Early See also:English See also: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 See also:font
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A See also:bridge of the 14th See also:century crosses the river
.
The See also:shire 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 includes remains of a See also:building, called the Stannary See also: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
.
The See also:Pipe Rolls (1194-1203) show that See also:Robert de Cardinan, See also:lord of Restormel, paid ten marks yearly for having a market at Lostwithiel
.
By an undated See also:charter still preserved with the See also: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 See also:succession to tenements, exemption from sullage, the right to elect a See also: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 to See also:Richard, 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 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 See also:jurisdiction of the See also:hundred and See also:county courts, also a yearly See also:fair and a weekly market
.
Richard transferred the assizes from See also:Launceston to Lostwithiel
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His son See also:Edmund, See also:earl of Cornwall, built a great hall at Lostwithiel and decreed that the coinage of See also:tin should be at Lostwithiel only
.
In 1325 Richard's charter was confirmed and the market ordered to be held on Thursdays
.
In 1386 the assizes were transferred back to Launceston
.
In 1609 a charter of See also:incorporation provided for a See also:mayor, See also:recorder, six See also:capital burgesses and seventeen assistants and courts of See also:record and See also:pie See also:powder
.
The boundaries of the borough were extended in 1733
.
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 See also:parliament
.
The See also:electors after 16o9 were th. twenty-five members of the corporation
.
Under the Reform See also:Act (1832) the borough became merged in the county
.
For the See also:Thursday market granted in 1326 a See also:Friday market was sub stituted in 1733, and this continues to be held
.
The fair granted in 1326 and the three fairs granted in 1733 have all given See also:place to others
.
The See also:archdeacon's See also:court, the sessions and the county elections were See also: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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