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Rh BAfilKOTHOBPE. 200 BASS, TIIK. townhall was built in 1833, which includes a com- murkct and a largo hall for public meeting. By an Act passed in 1829, the market was constituted a market. The revenue of the borough is about 1 ,800, and it* population, according t" th" i usus of 1861, 4,664, against 4,263 in 18.31, showing an increase of 401 in the decennial period, while the inhabited houses have risen from 892 to 938. The town returned represen- tatives to parliament in the reigns of Edward I., Ed- ward II., and Edward III., when, at tin- solicitation of the inhabitants, it is supposed, the privilege ceased. It is a polling-place for the north division of the county, the seat of a Poor-law Union, ani of a County Court district. Petty sessions for the borough are held weekly, and for the county once a fortnight. The living is a vie.* in the dioc. of Winchester, of the vol. with those of Basing and Up-Natclev, which are annexed to it, of 57'-', in the patron, of the President and Fellows of Magd.d. n College, Oxford. The church, a handsome edifice, in the, perpendicular stylo of architecture, with a low tower at the west end, is dedicated to St. Michael. The chancel and Lady-chapel are of earlier origin than the remainder of the church, which was mostly built in the reign of Henry VIII. It is noticed as a singular circumstance, that while the south wall is entirely of stone, the north is built in alternate squares of flint and stone. The roof is of panelled oak, and the spandrils are adorned with armorial shields. The interior lias been reruitly re- paired and repewed, and galleries erected round thru sides of the church. There are chapels belonging to the Society of Friends, the Countess of Hunting Connexion, the Independents, and Weslcyan Metho- dists. The charitable endowments of the parish are of considerable amount. The free grammar school was founded in the reign of Henry VIII. by Sir William Sandys, in connection with a chapel for the Guild of the Holy Ghost. The guild was dissolved in the following reign, restored by Queen Mary, and again suppressed by Cromwell. Finallv, at the instance of Bishop Morley, in 1670, the estate, which hod been seized by the parlia- ment, was restored and appropriated to its present uses. The revenue of the school is about 160. The master is appointed by the lord chancellor. The mastership was once held by Thomas Wurton, vicar of the parish, and father of Dr. Joseph Worton, poet and critic, and Thomas Warton, poet-laureate, both natives of Basing- stoke, and pupils in this school. There is a blue-coat school for 10 boys, established and endowed by Richard Aldworth in 1646 ; the revenue of which is 170. Another school for 12 boys is supported by the Skin- ners' Company ; and there are National schools for bov and girls, supported partly by endowment. Three endowed olmshouses were founded in 1808 by Joseph Page, and there ore several other charities, the principal of which is an endowment by Sir J. Lancaster, the Arctic navigator, for the benefit of the poor, the annual value of which is 252. There is a mechanics' institu- tion, with a library and reading-room. Below the bridge are traces of the old hospital for poor priests, found. 1 in the reign of Henry III., at the request of Walti r dr Merton, Bishop of Rochester, and founder of Merlon College, Oxford. On a hill, near the railway si are the ruins of the Holy Ghost chapel. Aubrey Camp, or Winklebury, is an ancient embankment of an irregular oval form, and about 1,100 yards in <: it is on the west side of the town. Basingstokc was the birthplace of John de liasingstoke, a Greek scholar of the 13th century, Sir James Lancaster, and of the Wartons. The canal, which is 37 miles in length, was completed in the year 1706; it connects the town with the r. 1 the Thames, and was made at a cost of 180,000. Near Odiham it is earned through a tun- nel three-quarters of a mile long. It passes 29 locks, and has a total f.ill of I'.'-i f.-ct. The corn market is 11 WeJni-,ilay. There is a market lor provisions iturduy. Fairs are ln-ld on Easter Tuesday, th'- nBwly in NVhitsun week, the 23rd September, and the llth (Mi.tier. Annual races take place in September. BASIN GTHOIil'E. A BASMSOTUOBI-B, Lincolnshire. it i-r BASLICK, a par. in the bar. of Castl.-i-.-a, in the o of Kosconimon, j.rov. of Connaught, Inlind, .3 miles t the E. of Castlerea. It c< > il of Cant!' plunket. There are several quarries of liinesto: living is a vie., forming part of the union of Ballintobn in the dioc. of Kilmore, Ardagh, and Elphin. church is in ruins. There are several gentlemen' seats. BASLOW, a chplry. in the par. and union of Bakt well, and bund, of High Peak, in Un- to the N.E. of Bagwell, and in W. ti terficld railway-station. The chplry. includes th of Calver, C'tubar, Froggatt, and Bu'mn-11, whj^^^H the north-east part of the par. of Baslow, which is of considerable size, is plautntly seated on the bunks of the river l.-iwent, ovn an ancient stone bridge of three arche- I ; to the north of Chatsworth, and on the N.E. ai. a range of lofty hills wit t grouse. Many of tin inhabitants are ei mills of the Calver Cotton-Spinning Com] situated a little lower down the river, Calver, where there is another bridge aero went of modern construction. The living cur.* in the dioc, of Lichlield, val. 115, in the of the Duke of Devonshire. The church, ili-dicatod I St. James, is in the perpendicular style, win surmounted by a spire. The Wesl. y.m Mi ti a eha)-l iii the village. There is a National q^^ established in 1839 by the Duke of Rutland, who i lord of the manor. Baslow belongs to th. :. '. ;.r Tutlmry, in the Duchy of Lancaster, amount to 10 u-year. In the vicinity is a large mansion of the early part of the 17th iiiiiarr. BASS, THE, a lofty and rugged isla, cost coast of Scotland. It is - the N. of the old castle of Tuntallon, in the co. c dington, and in the entrance to the Kritli of in- form is nearly circular, and it is about a fereneo. To the north it rises sharply from groat depth to a height of 420 feet, while on "' side, facing the land, it has a gradual .- stance of the rock is greenstone penetrated by a great cavern running throug north-west to south-east. It is inaccessible one part on the south-east side. At that part of t stand the ruins of the small fort or priso: find pasture on a small grassy tract of the is whole population of sea-birds mak<- r haunt. The beautiful solan geese aro the > i-ii no other island on the east in. The minister c.f Noitli in the i ractor of vicur of the Bass, still rc< according to very ancient custom, " t,, with their feathers on." The t> i two. The Bnss belonged in an family called Lander of the Bass. It sub became the property of the crown, and in 17 i t" Sir Hew Palrymple, whose d. hold it. It is M to a kc i ]>cr, who has the kc castle, and conducts visitors to it. A deep bun s to this rock since the 17th wlieii Cliarles II. erected a state prison upon made the cells of its dungeons memorable by imi in them the persecuted Covenanters. Such was the J pose it was made to serve during the i two B <cd it acquired the name of the ! ind. Unlike its greater prototj | fell before a roused and angry nation. seises the distinction of being the lost spot that . out in Groat Britain for James II. The cell in the pious Blackudder was confined is still pointi out to the visitor. There are some remains of a tmfU chapel halfway up the slope of the rock. In garrison kept their ammunition. The name of I drod, the apostle of East Lothian, who died i seventh century, is associated with several phic coast of Haddmgton, and a doubtful tradition that he made the Bass his residence.