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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 880 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MORTLAKE  , a

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village in the
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Kingston
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parliamentary
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division of
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Surrey,
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England, on the
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Thames, 62 m . W. of
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London . Pop. of
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parish, which includes
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East Sheen (19o1), 7774 . It has been associated with the
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Oxford and
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Cambridge
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boat-
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race since 1845, the race
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finishing here . The village appears in Domesday, and the
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manor belonged to the Archbishops of
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Canterbury until the
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time of
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Henry VIII., when it passed by
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exchange to the
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Crown . From the
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early.
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part of the 17th
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century until after the
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civil
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wars Mortlake was celebrated for a manufacture of
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tapestry .

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