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Rh CLEEKENWELL. 6'M CLEVELAND-POUT. .-elect' '1 tin- well iii l; I l>y the ii, as tli' ii mg in the centre of f i; grounds, which formed an extensive i 'inundation of tie rate.l of ;i 1391, in the 1 Jl., aii'i 1 for three days, during which several sacred dramas v. :K,'d by tin- clerks in prc.icnn: of the kit by the whole court. In 1 Itil Edward IV. WV kin;; here; and in H>Kj a new way was rut through the .-, nearly in a line with tin present Northampton- Btroet, to welco:: ry >,( .lam. s 1. into London. The manor, which includes parts of this and the neigh- bouring parishes, retains the Saxon custom of " borough English," and has for many generations belonged to the Comptons, who formerly resided at Northampton House, a mansion cic.eupying the site of the modern square of that name. Clcrkenwell forms part of the borough of Finsbury, for which it is a place of election, and includes St. John-street, with the whole district lying b. ; St. Sepulchre Without, the Charterhouse, and Goswell- Btreet, covering an area of 320 acres of v< TV 01 ground, and containing 7,088 inhabited house-. '1'lu re are six s<|i. M, which was once Spa Fields, Gronville, Myddelton, Lloyd, C'l.u St. John's. The whole is now built over, and is con- sidered a healthy spot, having a gravel soil. Its ]M>].U- lation, according to the census of 1861, was 65,081 of whom several thousands are engaged in the and clock niaiiutaeture, besides jewellers, goldsmiths, cnamellcrs, and other brarichct) of manufacture. li"i are Itcid's brewery ; Ni'holson's and other distilleries ; Sadler's V (irimaldi acted; the county sessions-house, on Cl< -rkeuwell Green, built by is, in place of Hick's Hall, in 1782; the county house of correction, built ill 1794, at the cost of 70,000; the new prison, now colled the House of Detention, on the separate system, for prisoners awaiting trial; the police station and court lor the G division of the metropolitan police force, near Bagniggo Wells; the ]''inslmry dispensary, reformatory, London Female Mission House, &c. The apace formerly occupied by the reservoir of the New River Company is now 1< und built over. Clerkenwcll was anciently celebrated for its ecclesiastical establishment)), especially for the priory of the Knights Hospitallers in St. John's-square, founded about 11 10 by Jordan Brissct. Its prior was head of his order, and took precedence of all lay barons ; scarcely less celebrated was the Benedictine nunnery, which occupied the site of St. James's church, founded by Muriel Vrisset. The beautiful gateway of the former is all that now remains of the monastic buildings, and hasl' v restored. Its appearance is well-known from the woodcut which has appeared for a century on the covers of the Gentleman's Mnya:ine, whi< h, on i: appearance in 1731, was printed at Cave's pi i in the gatehouse, now the " Jerusalem Tavern." The mother church is St. James's, built iu 1792, on tli of the nunnery church, in which Lady Sackvil] last prioress, Weaver, author of "Funeral 31. Bishop Burnett, and the musician Britton, The living is a perpet. cur., val. 300, in tho patron, of the ratepayers. Pentonvillo chplry., formerly annexed t ' St. James's, is now a district par., with two cliii and schools. Tho living, val. 100, is in the patron, of tho Incumbcntof St. James's. St. John's church, whirh stands on t : pii.-ry, was one of tin til; churches built by Queen Anne, and has underneath the old crypts of the priory church. Its living is a rect. val. J<;<>, in the patron, of the Mark's church, built in 1828, cost 16,000 ; its living is the patron, of the llishopof
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squarc, and is in the patron, of the Incum Mark's. Besides tho churches most of tho Dissenting re ore numerou and almshouscs, founded" in 1018, and lately i. I uilt in the Eli, . and f..r 1,000 children, Ii 111.' rent'.liville llWell is district for birth.-, di alii.-, and man: in the I this parish arc i. been I: tit of John while writing for i of Dibdin, who lived in near K i s, but which no '. this parish, : . is ( halloa I Oliver ' Lord Cobhain the man ingdon, who built 1 ingdon. i *^^H "Balsam of Lite,' ! it Mr. Britten's L . usalem Passage. CLEKKIV par. in tli. Scotland, now joined to Temple. I 'I.KK.Mt iVJ'. .' count, and carl to t river Fane, in the bar. of Dundalk, in tl. prov. of LcuisUr, Ireland. Sir Kichard Le Fo^^^l whom the above family ore descended, was M to William tho Conqueror, and presti battle of Has! CLETHEK, ST., a ]>ar. in the hund. of LtM the CO. of Cornwall, mi!. .- J'.. . : situated on tho riv. i'he living ; dioc. of Exeter, val. C10.3, in t, Esq. Tlu< I i'asj^H i IKKWd' in the borough of J .'omerj^^H
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way station, on tho Shroiwhiro and '< of the London and North- Western line. CLEUGUBUAE, a hunt, in the par. in the co. of Dumfries, > CLEVEDON, a j.ar. in the huud. of P. co. of Somci> station of the Great Wcstem line, and is rci- summcr as a pleasant situated on the cliffs at the mouth of t commanding a fine view of tl '< by tho Saxons, from the clitf ( ' an ^Hpl -, as well as those ot . and a servants'. . i'Ollt 1-1 1" ir A. UaUam Eltoi xxuu of tho I ih ar ll The air is

rinv leridV" one.- ivsi'li d 1 CLEVEI.ANH- hmlt. in the Ormsby, in the co. of York, 7 mi!, s N' borough, at the mouth of the riv. i port to S M.I is situated near the StocktO 8 Darlington railway. The Iii: Tees, aboani ing in fossils. Tho Cleveland hounds hunt her*. a tul