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Rh PEPTFORD. 760 DERBY. II uml St. Paul, tho former of which is small, '.....M town; win! Uinto i en-fourths. 'I'll'- lii]r-'of St. Nicholas is a vie. in the '>',, in tho patron, of T. T. Hint tower is of more ancient date. It contains tombs of Fenton, who sailed with Frobisher in search of the North-West Passage ; of Benbow, a son of the celebrated admiral ; 1'i-tt. who built the first frigate; Shelvpck, tho iiiiiaigator; and other celebrities. The living of St. Paul is a rect., val. 400, in tho patron, of V. W. Drake, Esq. This was one of Queen Anne's fifty new churches, and has a monument to Admiral Sayer, who took tho Island of Tobago. There are besides two dibtrict churches, the one dedicated to St. John, tho living of which is a perpet. cur.,* in the patron, of J. J. S Lucas, Esq. ; and the other, dedicated to St. Jan Hatcham, val. 160, in the patron, of the licv. A. K. 13. ille. There are also several Dissenting chapels. A hospital for shipmasters and their widows was. lishod at Peptford by Henry VIII. ; it is called Trinity Hospital, and was rebuilt in 1788, when Trinity House was removed to Tower-hill. There is alap another hos- pital. Both belong to tho Trinity corporation. There are several largo schools, including the Royal Naval, Adders, and Dean Stanhope's or Gransden's, besides National and Sunday schools; also a mechanics' literary institu- tion, the Kent dispensary, a chemical factory, and a savings-bank, besides commodious barracks, and gas and w.itfr works. Deptford nnites with Greenwich, Wool- wicli, Charlton, and Plumstead in returning two mem- bers i h.'iv that Queen ElizaJ,, th visited Drake on board his ship the Pelican, after ho had eoni]ilet''d his voyage round the world. Purchas says, " tin.- reliques of the shippe, or some bones at least of that glorious carkasse, yet remayne at Deptford, conse- crated to fame and posteritie." An arm-chair, made from this vessel, was given to the University of Oxford. The poorhouse, now down, ie said to have been on the site of Sayes Court, once the seat of Evelyn, who lent it as a residence to the czar. Peter the Great, while he was studying ship-building in this country ; and there in tho garden, " an exemplar of his Sylvia," stood an im- pregnable holly-hedge, 400 feet long, 9 feet high, and t thick. The Earl of Winchilsea, who com- manded against the Spanish Armada, used to live at the old "Gun" tavern; and Sir Thomas Smith, am- bassador to Russia, and Cowley, tho poet, were resi- dents. In 1652 the town was visited with a very severe conflagration, and with the plague in 1665. V. and his followers did considerable injury t in 1653. A high tide rose 10 feet in tho lowest of tho town in 1671, on which occasion a prodigious quant it v at tt destroyed in the marshes, hip is moored in the river. Tho G, in Deptford Creek. A fair is held from Trinity Monday to Wednesday. HKPTKORI), a Inshp. and chplry. in th" par. of p Wearmouth, N. div. of Ensington ward, in tho co. of Durham, 2 miles from Sundcrland, with which it is connected by the celebrated iron bridge across the Wear. Tho inhabitants arc chiefly engaged in tho collieries and iron-works, and in the coasting t Tho living is a cur. in the dioc. of Durham, val. 350, in tho patron, of the bishop. This town-hip lias its own church and schools, but shares in tho charities of the parish ..I' I'.islu.p Vannouth. DEFPFORD, a tythg. in the par. of Wyly. in the co. of Wilts, 6 mile. S.K of lleytesbury, and 8 N ". "f Vilton. DKITTY-Kul K, in the Channel, between the co. of Down and the Copeland Islands, prov. of ITster, Ireland. Its position is at,, nit .mc-third of the distance between the mainland and Big Island, and it lies 10 feet below hi^h-water mark. PWADE, or DM Kl 'FORD, a hund. in the, Norfolk contains the pars, of Aslacton, Ashwclthorpc, on Carlton-Rodo, Bunwell, I-'., rue, tt St. M r, Fund.-nlmll, Friti'.n, liar,!' Morningthorpe, Hempnall, bti St. M lasburifh.TacotnoBlon.Thar- I ston, Tiljl.eMhain, Va.-t, ,n I'ana. und Wacton Slagna, comprising 30,9,5(1 acres. I>, pwado deanery is in the arehdeae. of Norfolk, and in the dioc. of Norwich. DKlillV, the co. town of Derbyshire, a municipal and parliamentary borough and mail in the hund. of Morleston an I I'crby, It is pleasantly situated amid the beautiful tho vale of the" Derwent, 13'J mile-, .N.V. of I.,,i by railway, and 126 by road. It in a principal M on the Midland Counties railway, i mi, with Nottingham and Lincoln, Leicester un Birmingham, Bristol and Exeter, Sheffield. I Newcastle, and Kdinburgh. Derby is suppo risen from the Roman town Dementia, whose occupied by Little Chester; in the Saxon time it wa 1 Noriliicorthige and Deoraby. During the period be years 874 and 918, it was held by the Danes. In 918 Ethelfleda, Lady . (|B daughter of Alfred, captured Derby from the I was afterwards restored to them as one of the "fiv* burghs," but was again taken from them h In the reign of Edward the Confessor it was u rt^H borough and mint town, and of c<,: importance, havingntimerouscorn-inill and till the Norman Conquest, it was i of Morcia. William the Conqueror bestow 1 William do Ferrers. Derby was chartered j, and given to tho carls of ( Edwiinl 111. t In privilege of Milled to it. At tho commencement ,'1 ihc war hot^^H Charles I. and tho parliament it waa hold by t i, but was shortly afterwards taken liy th, ; i <n, and remained in their hands till the end of the war. In 1665, and previously in 1592-3, it was visited by the plague. The young Pretender en days in 1745, and from this point commenced his rtt^H to Scotland. In 1833-4 a great rtri. tivet took place. Derby has considerable n most important being those of silk, cot porcelain, china, and Derbvshi The black marble found in Derbyshire is e wrought into vases, chimney-pieces, &c. The silk-mill ever erected in England was built a swampy island in the Derwent in 171''. John Lombe, who successfully introduced the a" "silk throwing " into this country from ) that time many silk-mills have been buil: . branch of industry may be regarded as t town. The manufacture of cotton riod, and is not so extensive a- Calico was first made here by Arkwriu! lure of porcelain, whirl by Mr. Uiiesl.ury. Besides the above 1). factures of paper, white and r, d ] ad, The streets of Derby in the old ] town is lighted with gas, and supplied with tho Derwent. Tho buildings are the] hall was built in 1828, and was destroyed 1.XJ1 ; the ont-r and, gntri walls weir, h,e served, and now form a portion of the new bu " the loi which it ha i duck and bell tower has in front. The county-hall is a heavy freest,.: in KitiO. '1'iie railway station is ii. the length of buildl^^^H d platform being no less than 1,050 feet. B, the ab' are the countv gaol,. rby and Derbyshire iroin: SI nid, and county lunatic asylum. The Ail, i. turn. ] i i.ted by the late Joseph Strutt, in IK 10, and estimated worth 10,000, is a piece ifiinmil of about 1. "lucres, laid out in walks and planted with trees, shrubs, &c. ; on Sundays and one d week it is open to the public free, and on other day<
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