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Rh OOVBNTBT. 670 VM) CALF. eester. The town ol i into tw.i III til'! val. 300, in tin- patron, of tin- 1. ClMi, in lli.' ] n, and i- h ..I HID grammar s< h<."l. Tin -iv are likewise the ! ing district church. *: < Ini-' Church, a oar., al in ti St. Thomas, a ] val. XlOn, in t!>. .ml l.i.-hop altcr- I .ly Trinity, a vii-.,* val. tli.iO, in tic ] ol tin') lonl chain-olio: i in-., val. 170, in the patron, of tin- Viear ..f JL.ly Tiinii;. Kercsley and Coundon, a |K rp< t. cur., ;il. 111.", in the patron, of tin- bi-h..p. Some ,.f those churches are remarkable for their beauty. St. M ichael's, the largest, has a spire of 303 fc. just propor- tion*. The length of t, the breadth 104 feet. The ornamentation of the pillars and :., and the carving of the old oak roof are justly admired. A church was built hero in 113H, and given to the Benedictines by the Earl of Chester, Imt the present structure was begun in 137'-', and completed in about twenty years from that date. Trinity is ncit i lofty nor .so elegant ; the. spire measures only 2:17 A handsome coloured window was presented to this church by the i irewsbury in 1M:U. Christ Church was added, by Kiekman, to the tow. of the ancient Grey Friars' church, in the year 1832. St. John's was founded by the Merchant's (itiild, temp. Edward III. There are f Lut . i less note, besides places of worship tor the Independents, Wegloyan and Primitive .Methodists, Baptists, Quakers, Unitarians, and Roman Catholics. The chai>cl of the last named is a very handsome modern Gothic building. The charitable institutions are very numerous; among tie-in may be mentioned Sir Thomas White's charity, the llablake hospitals for men and boys, Ford's hos- and others. The chief schools are the free school, founded by John Hales in the reign of Henry VIII., which lias fellowships at St. John's College, Oxford, and Catherine Hall, Cambridge ; the Bablake school for SO boys under eleven ; the llaik. r, ISilling, and Crow's school, for 50 boys ; the blue-coat girls' school, where 40 arc received; Bailey's, for 40 boys; Southern and Craner's, for 30 or 40 children ; and l-'aii lax for 10 boys. There are also British and National schools, Sunday- schools connected with the various places of worship, a school of design, and a mechanics' institute. The ( hoy Friars' Hospital contains some very ancient carved oak. Thn chief manufactures are ribbon weaving and clock and watch making ; the former was introduced about 1 730, and gave employment to a largo number of hands until the alteration of the duties on foreign silks in 1 s'i 1, in accordance with the French treaty, when main thrown out of employment. Prior to this, doth, cloth caps, and blue ; the staple articles, 'i 10 or two iron foundries, and manufie for trimmings, carriages, stockings, and lace. N 1,300 acres of land around the city are common land. The greater cjuaiitity, about 1,000 acres, is called Lam- mas and Michaelmas lands, and freemen have the exclusive right of pasturing their cattle thereon from Lammas Day to Candlemas ..v.-r th. 1. -Minnas land, and from .Michaelmas to <'andl.-m:is over the Mich land. No building is as yet permitted on these lands, l.nt it is expected that they will before long be covered with houses, as the population is increasing and the town has no room to expand its area. A wits formed in 1S03 by the mayor and other influential persons for . of these and other waste lands, under the title of tin' " Coventry Experimental Sewage Asso- nation," by which it is proposed, in imitation of Edin- burgh, Wai ! her places, where the experiment has boon successfully tried, to apply the sewage of th. town, in the form of liquid manure, by means of ] i -engines, ami ..tier appliances. Besides 'ly mentioned, i' Til.- aii.'ient market-cross, which wmi 67 feet high, hat been taken down. A small portion of t. Lord ipcrs are p '. The i : ii- title of earl from this city. 1 h. m al>. i i. h.-!d on l-'i i.; ,,. ..- 1 August, 21st to '. r, and < n Annual rue. s take place in Mat. '. F.I; r.lMlii.K. a hmlt. inti. wap. of A < Vork, 2 miles 8. E. of Mid.il. ham. It is situated on thM COVKKliAM, a par. in the wap. of V. the North Hiding of the c... of York, 2 mi: Middleham. and -U from Leyburn. It is situated onf the river Cover, and contains the t:. slips, of Cai^^H Carlton Highdalc, Coverham-cu; and West Scrafton, Caldbcrgh, and M.lm.rby. Toil parish is very oxtensi ng above 22, 000 actqH part of which is moorland. . and d^H areworked. At the conunenoement ol th. 1 ;th centa^H r White Friars was found. 1 t, iniii- of which still remain. At tie- 1 liasolutiofll its lands were valued at 208. The living is a purptfl cur.* with the ) ..f Horschouse annexed, ^1 the dioc. of Kipon, val. llso, in th if ^H nson family. The church, . Trinity, is a stone structure, with toner and h stained-glass windows. It has been rc< The charities amount to 45 per annu: s endowmcn Ahl.cy, the seat of Thomas Lister, Esq., is formed i ithonses of t I'Yi.KiiAM-cr; ii'i;i'K, the [.ar. of ('overhaul. Hiding of the co. of York, 1 mil.- |. mi. COVEKUEAD, a hmlt. in the n Highdalc, par. of Coverham, in the North Kidi; the co. of York, 3 miles from Mi ated in the moors, near the source ot COVERSEA, a beacon in the. I miles W. of Loesicmouth. It is the sea, and the revolving light can be seen I- i. IVINCTON, n liar, in lh. I, in the co. of Hunts, 3 miles N. W. of Kiuili. from Thrapston, the former being its post town. living is a reel.* in the dioc. of Fly, vil. '.|so, iu patron, of tl V. Fit/.william. The chu dedicated to All Saints. The lords of th. the Duke of Manchester and Kail Fit/willi.im. COVI N't I 'i IN, a jar. in Kjiper ward, in the < Lanar" : This par. contains thu x vington and Thankei-ton, and is bound, d by I Liberton, and Carmichael on the N., th !!., ami Symington and Wiiton out! northward ;th a breadth of :( n. land near t well cultivated, and : !"..(. d to sheep p-i-tii! i, b"ing ]iriiicij.. The only mansion is ^ circular camps, and a ruined castle, built in 111 l/iml- ;ton. 1>. maid ( 'argill. was tak. n prisoncrat ( lovington Mill. I of tli, llage of Coyington is 5 miles .W. of Biggar. 1 in the'presb. of 1: Lock! t lie m '.'209. The parishes ol Thankeiton were united in the firat (purler of last hieh th" church i -i has aluno C0'. .1 ml, or group of i I'ortuiuna and Killai, Ireland. A temporary landing-.-- .me years ago, and a ] : met- ing a harbour. I nV AMI CALF, a rock in Hind ii tho