See also:JOSEPH See also:XAVIER See also:SAINTINE (1798-1865)
, See also:French novelist and dramatist, whose real surname was See also:BONIFACE, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the loth of See also:July 1798
.
In 1823 he produced a See also:volume of See also:poetry in the manner of the Romanticists, entitled Poemes, odes, epitres
.
In 1836 appeared Picciola, the See also:story of the See also:comte de Charney, a See also:political prisoner in See also:Piedmont, whose See also:reason was saved by his cult of a tiny See also:flower growing between the paving stones of his See also:prison yard
.
This story is a masterpiece of the sentimental See also:kind, and has been translated into many See also:European See also:languages
.
He produced many other novels, none of striking individuality with the exception of Seul (1857), which purported to be the See also:authentic See also:record of See also:Alexander See also:Selkirk on his See also:desert See also:island
.
See also:Saintine was a prolific dramatist, and collaborated in some See also:hundred pieces with See also:Scribe and others, usually under the name of See also:Xavier
.
He died on the 21st of See also:January 1865
.
ST INGBERT, a See also:town of See also:Germany, in the See also:kingdom of See also:Bavaria on the Rohrbach, 14 M. by See also:rail W. of See also:Zweibrucken
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It has See also:coal-mines and manufactures of See also:glass and machinery
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There are also large See also:iron and See also:steel See also:works in the town, and other See also:industries are the making of See also:powder, See also:leather, cigars, See also:soap and See also:cotton
.
St Ingbert is named after the Irish See also:saint, St Ingobert, and belonged for 300 years to the electorate of See also:Trier
.
ST IVES, a See also:market town, 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 and seaport in the St Ives See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Cornwall, See also:England, to m
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N.N.E. of See also:Penzance, on a See also:branch of the See also:Great Western railway
.
Pop
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It lies near the W. See also:horn of St Ives See also:Bay on the N. See also:coast
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The older streets near the See also:harbour are narrow and irregular, but on the upper slopes there are See also:modern terraces with See also:good houses
.
The small harbour, protected by a See also:breakwater, originally built by See also:John See also:Smeaton in 1767, has suffered from the See also:accumulation of See also:sand, and at the lowest tides is dry
.
The See also:fisheries for See also:pilchard, See also:herring and See also:mackerel are important
.
See also:Boat-See also:building and See also:sail-making are carried on
.
An See also:eminence See also:south of the town is marked by a See also:granite See also:monument erected in 1782 by John Knill, a native of the town, who intended to be buried here; to maintain a quinquennial celebration on the spot he bequeathed See also:property to the town authorities
.
The borough is under a See also:mayor, 4 aldermen and 12 councillors
.
See also:Area, 1890 acres
.
The town takes name from St Hya, or Ia, an Irish virgin and See also:martyr, who is said to have accompanied St Piran on his missionary See also:journey to Cornwall in the 5th See also:century, and to have landed near this See also:place
.
The Patent Rolls disclose an almost continuous See also:series of trials for piracy and See also:plunder by St Ives sailors from the beginning of the 14th to the end of the 16th century
.
A See also:mere chapelry of Lelant and the less important member of the distant See also:manor of Ludgvan Leaze, which in Domesday See also:Book appears as Luduam, it had no fostering See also:hand to See also:minister to its growth
.
In See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to See also:augment the See also:influence of the Tudors in the See also:House of See also:Commons, See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip and See also:Mary in 1558 invested it with the See also:privilege of returning 2 members
.
Its affairs were at that 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 administered by a headwarden, who after 1598 appears under the name of portreeve, 12 See also:chief burgesses and 24 See also:ordinary burgesses
.
The portreeve was elected by the 24; the 12 by the chief inhabitants
.
This See also:body had See also:control over the fishing, the harbour and harbour dues, the fabric of 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, sanitation and the poor
.
In 1639 a See also:charter of See also:incorporation was granted under which the portreeve became mayor, the 12 became aldermen, and the 24 were styled burgesses
.
See also:Pro-See also:vision was made for four fairs and for markets on Wednesdays and Saturdays, also for a See also:grammar school
.
This charter was surrendered to See also:Charles II. and a new one granted in 1685, the latter reducing the number of aldermen to to and of burgesses also to to
.
It ratified the parliamentary See also:franchise and the fairs and markets, and provided a See also:court of See also:pie-powder; it also contained a clause safeguarding the rights of the See also:marquess of See also:Winchester, See also:lord of the manor of Ludgvan Leaze and Porthia
.
In 1835 a mayor, 4 aldermen and 12 councillors were invested with the See also:administration of the borough
.
In 1832 St Ives lost one of its members, and in 1885 the other
.
Both markets are now held, but only one of the fairs
.
This takes place on the Saturday nearest St See also:Andrew's See also:day
.
ST IVES, a market town and municipal borough in the See also:northern parliamentary division of See also:Huntingdonshire, England, mainly on the See also:left (See also:north) See also:bank of the See also:Ouse, 5 M
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E. of See also:Huntingdon by the Great Eastern railway
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Pop
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The See also:river is crossed by an old See also:bridge said to have been built by the abbots of See also:Ramsey See also:early in the 15th century
.
A building over the centre See also:pier of the bridge was once used as a See also:chapel
.
The See also:causeway (1827) on the south See also:side of the river is built on See also:arches so as to assist the flow of the river in time of See also:flood
.
The church of All See also:Saints is Perpendicular, with earlier portions
.
A curious See also:custom is practised annually in this church in connexion with a See also:bequest made by a certain Dr See also:Robert See also:Wilde in 1678: it is the See also:distribution of Bibles to six boys and six girls of the town
.
The See also:original See also:provision was that the Bibles should be See also:cast for by See also:dice on the Communion table
.
See also:Oliver See also:Cromwell was a See also:resident in St Ives in 1634-1635, but the house which he inhabited—Slepe 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—was demolished in the See also:middle of the 19th century
.
St Ives has a considerable agricultural See also:trade
.
It is governed by a mayor, 4 aldermen and 12 councillors
.
Area 2326 acres
.
The manor of "Slepe" is said to have been given bylEthelstan " Mannessune " to the See also:- ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
- ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
- ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)
abbot of Ramsey and confirmed to him 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:Edgar
.
It owed its See also:change of name to the supposed See also:discovery of the See also:grave of St Ive, a See also:Persian See also:bishop, in toot,and a priory was founded in the same See also:year by Abbot Ednoth as a See also:cell to Ramsey
.
St Ives was chiefly noted for its See also:fair, which was first granted to the abbot of Ramsey by 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 I. to be held on See also:Monday in See also:Easter See also:week and eight days following
.
In the reign of Henry III. merchants from See also:Flanders came to the fair, which had become so important that the king granted it to be continued beyond the eight days if the abbot agreed to pay a See also:farm of £50 yearly for the extra days
.
The fair, with a market on Monday granted to the abbot in 1286, survives, and was See also:purchased in 1874 by the See also:corporation from the See also:duke of See also:Manchester
.
The town was incorporated in 1874
.
ST See also:JEAN-D'ANGELY, a town of western See also:France, See also:capital of an See also:arrondissement in the See also:department of See also:Charente-Inferieure, 33 M
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E. of See also:Rochefort by rail
.
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St Jean lies on the right bank of the Boutonne, which is navigable for small vessels
.
The See also:parish church of St Jean stands on the site of an See also:abbey church of the 13th century, of which some remains are left
.
In 1568 the monastery was destroyed by the See also:Huguenots, but much of it was rebuilt in the 17th and 18th centuries, to which See also:period belong two towers and the See also:facade of an unfinished church
.
St Jean owes the suffix of its name to the neighbouring See also:forest of Angery (Angeriacum)
.
See also:Pippin I. of See also:Aquitaine in the 9th century established there a See also:Benedictine monastery which was afterwards reputed to possess the See also:head. of John the Baptist
.
This relic attracted hosts of pilgrims; a town See also:grew up, took the name of St Jean d'Angeri, afterwards d'Angely, was fortified in 1131, and in 1204 received a charter from Philip See also:Augustus
.
The See also:possession of the place was disputed between French and See also:English in the Hundred Years' See also:War, and between Catholics and Protestants at a later date
.
In 1569 it capitulated to the duke of See also:Anjou (afterwards Henry III.)
.
See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XIII. again took it from the Protestants in 1621 and deprived it of its privileges and its very name, which he changed to Bourg-Louis
.
ST JEAN-DE-LUZ, a coast town of south-western France, in the department of Basses-See also:Pyrenees, at the mouth of the Nivelle, 14 m
.
S.W. of See also:Bayonne on a branch of the' See also:Southern railway
.
Pop
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St Jean-de-Luz is situated in the Basque See also:country on the bay of St Jean-de-Luz, the entrance to which is protected by breakwaters and moles
.
It has a 13th-century church, the chief features of which are the galleries in the See also:nave, which, according to the Basque custom, are reserved for men
.
The Maison Lohobiague, the Maison de l'See also:Infante (both 17th cent.), and the hotel de ville (1657) are picturesque old buildings
.
St Jean is well known for its bathing and as a See also:winter resort
.
Fishing is a considerable See also:industry
.
From the 14th to the 17th century St Jean-de-Luz enjoyed a prosperity due to its mariners and fishermen
.
Its vessels were the first to set out for See also:Newfoundland in 152o
.
In 1558, owing to the depredations of its privateers, the Spaniards attacked and burned the town
.
In 1627, however, it was able to equip 8o vessels, which succeeded in saving the island of R6 from the 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
.
In 166o the treaty of the Pyrenees was signed at St Jean-de-Luz, and was followed by the See also:marriage there of the Infanta Maria See also:Theresa and Louis XIV
.
At that time the See also:population numbered r6,000
.
The cession of Newfoundland to England in 1713, the loss of See also:Canada, and the silting-up of the harbour were the three causes which contributed to the decline 'of the town
.
ST JOHN, CHARLES 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:GEORGE (18o9-1856), English naturalist and sportsman, son of See also:General the Hon
.
See also:Frederick St John, second son of Frederick, second See also:Viscount See also:Bolingbroke, was born on the 3rd of See also:December 1809
.
He was educated at See also:Midhurst, See also:Sussex, and about 1828 obtained a clerk-See also:ship in the See also:treasury, but resigned in 1834, in which year he married a See also:lady with some See also:fortune
.
He ultimately settled in the " Laigh " of See also:Moray, " within easy distance of See also:mountain See also:sport." In 1853 a paralytic seizure deprived him of the use of his limbs, and for the benefit of his See also:health he removed to the south of England
.
He died at See also:Woolston, near See also:Southampton, on the 22nd of July 1856, His works are See also:Wild See also:Sports and Natural See also:History of the See also:Highlands (1846, 2nd ed
.
1848, 3rd ed
.
1861); Tour in See also:Sutherland (1849, 2nd ed., with recollections by See also:Captain H
.
St John, 1884); Notes of Natural History and Sport in Morayshire, with Memoir by C
.
Innes (1863i 2nd ed
.
1884)
.
They are written in a graphic See also:style, and illustrated with engravings, many of them from See also:clever See also:pen-and-See also:ink sketches of his own
.
ST JOHN, 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 AUGUSTUS (1801-1875), See also:British author and traveller, was born in See also:Carmarthenshire, See also:Wales. on the 24tk
.
of See also:September 18o1
.
He received private instruction in the See also:classics, and also acquired proficiency in French, See also:Italian, See also:Spanish, Arabic and Persian
.
He obtained a connexion with a See also:Plymouth newspaper, and when, in 1824, James See also:Silk Buckingham started the See also:Oriental See also:Herald, St John became assistant editor
.
In 1827, together with D
.
L
.
See also:Richardson, he founded the See also:London Weekly See also:Review, subsequently purchased by See also:Colburn and transformed into the Court See also:Journal
.
He lived for some years on the See also:Continent and went in 1832 to See also:Egypt and See also:Nubia, travelling mostly on See also:foot
.
The results of his journey were published under the titles Egypt and Mohammed See also:Ali, or Travels in the Valley of the See also:Nile
(2 vols., 1834), Egypt and Nubia (1844), and See also:Isis, an See also:Egyptian See also:Pilgrimage (2 vols., 1853)
.
On his return he settled in London, and for many years wrote political " leaders " for the Daily See also:Telegraph
.
In 1868 he published a See also:Life of See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Raleigh, based on researches in the archives at See also:Madrid and elsewhere
.
He died in London on the 22nd of September 1875
.
Besides the works mentioned St John was also the author of Journal of a See also:Residence in See also:Normandy (183o) ; Lives of Celebrated Travellers (183o) ; See also:Anatomy of Society (1831) ; History, See also:Manners and Customs of the See also:Hindus (1831) ; See also:Margaret See also:Ravenscroft, or Second Love
(3 vols., 1835) ; The Hellenes, or Manners and Customs of See also:Ancient See also:Greece (1842); Sir Cosmo See also:Digby, a novel (1844); There and Back Again in See also:Search of Beauty (1853) ; The See also:Nemesis of See also:Power (1854) See also:Philosophy at the Foot of the See also:Cross (1854); The See also:Preaching of See also:Christ (1855) ; The See also:Ring and the See also:Veil, a novel (1856) ; Life of Louis See also:Napoleon (1857); History of the Four Conquests of England (1862); and Weighed in the See also:Balance, a novel (1864)
.
He also edited, with notes, various English classics
.
Of his four sons, all journalists and authors of some See also:literary distinction—See also:Percy ' Bolingbroke (1821–1889), See also:Bayle, See also:Spenser and See also:Horace See also:Roscoe (182–1888)—the second, BAYLE ST JOHN (1822-1869), began contributing to the See also:periodicals when only thirteen
.
When twenty he wrote a series of papers for See also:Fraser under, the See also:title " De re vehiculari, or a Comic History of Chariots." To the same See also:magazine he contributed a series of essays on See also:Montaigne, and published in 1857 Montaigne the Essayist, a See also:Biography, in 4 volumes
.
During a residence of two years in Egypt he wrote The Libyan Desert (1849)
.
While in Egypt he learnt Arabic and"visited the See also:oasis of See also:Siwa
.
On his return he settled for some time in Paris and published Two Years in a Levantine See also:Family (185o) and Views in the Oasis of Siwah (185o)
.
After a second visit to the See also:East he published See also:Village Life in Egypt (1852) ; See also:Purple Tints of Paris: Characters and Manners in the New See also:Empire (1854); The Louvre, or Biography of a Museum (1855) ; the Subalpine Kingdom, or Experiences and Studies in See also:Savoy (1856); Travels of an Arab See also:Merchant in the Soudan (1854) Maretimo, a Story of See also:Adventure (1856) ; and See also:Memoirs of the Duke of Saint-See also:Simon in the Reign of Louis XIV
.
(4 vols., 1857)
.
ST JOHN, OLIVER (c
.
1598-1673), English statesman and See also:judge, was the son of Oliver St John
.
There were two branches of the ancient family to which he belonged, namely, the St Johns of Bletso in See also:Bedfordshire, and the St Johns of Lydiard Tregoze in See also:Wiltshire, both descendants of the St Johns of See also:Staunton St John in See also:Oxfordshire
.
Oliver St John was a member of the See also:senior<