The descendants of John Knight, who built the present Chawton House at the time of the Armada ( 1588 ), added to it and modified the landscape in ways that reflect changes in politics, religion and taste.

The house in which Jane Austen lived – " Chawton Cottage " – is now Jane Austen's House Museum and is visited by 30, 000 people each year.

* Chawton House Library

* Chawton House Women's Writing Entry

Many people combine their visit with one to Jane Austen ’ s House in nearby Chawton.

They were square or rectangular in shape, shallow, and made of non-absorbent materials, such as the slate sinks at Chawton House or lined with copper to protect delicate dishes.

Jane Austen's Chawton House Museum which is open to the public and is very much as Jane Austen would have known it.

" Chawton Cottage ", Jane Austen's house and garden are open to the public.

The term cottage has also been used for a largish house that is practical rather than pretentious, see Chawton Cottage.

Jane Austen lived in the nearby village of Chawton.

Among the items of Jane Austen's furniture on display in Chawton Cottage are a Clementi pianoforte ( about 1810 ) and a Hepplewhite bureau-bookcase containing several of her works.

On July 7, 1809, Jane Austen moved to a cottage in Chawton, together with her mother, her sister Cassandra, and their friend Martha Lloyd, at the invitation of her brother Edward Knight, on whose estate it lay.

The family remained at Chawton Cottage, even after Jane Austen's death in 1817.

We have not only letters written by Jane to Martha, but Martha's collection of recipes used at Chawton, which were later compiled into A Jane Austen Household Book by Peggy Hickman, David & Charles, Ltd. 1977, and in The Jane Austen Cookbook by Maggie Black and Deirdre Le Faye, British Museum Press, 1995 ( ISBN 0-7141-2769-8 ).

The reference to Four Marks translates roughly, as “ a certain vacant piece of land called Fowrem ’ kes near Bookmere and so called Fowrem ’ kes because iiii adjoining tithings abut there namely the tithings of Medsted Ropley Faryngdon & Chawton ”.

Chawton has a single church, St Nicholas.

A church has stood on the site in Chawton since at least 1270 when it was mentioned in a diocesan document.

Chawton has only two road exits, one leading to a roundabout connected to the A31 and the A32, and the other to the A339 / B3006 Selborne Road.

Chawton is a village and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England.

In 2000, Chawton had a population of around 380.

Austen published four of her novels while living in Chawton.

Chawton C of E Primary School is the only school in Chawton.

There are no retail stores in Chawton.

Adjacent to Gosport Road lies a green containing a cricket pitch and the home of Chawton Cricket Club, a newly refurbished playground and a set of allotments.

* Ruth Facer, author biography on Chawton Library site.

Sharples was made a life peer on 18 June 1973 as Baroness Sharples, of Chawton in the County of Hampshire.

White House historians assert that U. S. President Andrew Jackson held an open house party where a 1, 400 lb ( 635 kg ) block of Cheddar cheese was served as " refreshment ".

According to White House and Congressional Budget Office figures, the maximum share of income that enrollees would have to pay for the " silver " healthcare plan would vary depending on their income relative to the federal poverty level, as follows: for families with income 133 – 150 % of FPL will be 3-4 % of income, for families with income of 150 – 200 % of FPL will be 4-6. 3 % of income, for families with income 200 – 250 % of FPL will be 6. 3-8. 05 % of income, for families with income 250-300 % of FPL will be 8. 05-9. 5 % of income, for families with income from 300 to 400 % of FPL will be 9. 5 % of income.

He said the TVA's supplanting of Commonwealth & Southern could threaten $ 400 million in investors ' equity, which convinced the House to limit the TVA's ability to build transmission lines that competed with existing private companies.

In December 1942, some 1, 400 irreplaceable manuscript codices, chiefly patristic and historical, besides a vast number of documents relating to the history of the abbey, and the collections of the Keats-Shelley Memorial House in Rome had been sent to the abbey archives for safekeeping.

Three days after the speech, on 23 April, as the Race Relations Bill was being debated in the House of Commons, 1, 000 dockers marched on Westminster protesting against Powell's " victimisation ", and the next day 400 meat porters from Smithfield market handed in a 92-page petition in support of Powell, amidst other mass demonstrations of working class support, much of it from trade unionists, in London and Wolverhampton.

During protests of election irregularities in 1874, referred to as the Battle of Liberty Place, an armed force of 8, 400 White League members advanced on the State House.

For the past 400 years, his family's seat has been Wilton House, Wiltshire.

The Opera House was the next major building, completed in 1884 with ceiling murals, a Rochester electric brass chandelier, and seating for 400.

Alfred Harper House — 125 W. 400 N.

At the Restoration he entered the House of Peers, but Louis XVIII refused to reinstate him as master of the wardrobe, although his father had paid 400, 000 francs for the honour.

The book was published simultaneously in a limited edition of 400 signed and numbered copies, by Underwood / Miller and also a trade edition, by Arbor House.

Louise Marie Adélaïde brought to the already wealthy House of Orléans a considerable dowry of six million livres, an annual income of 240, 000 livres ( later increased to 400, 000 livres ), as well as lands, titles, residences and furniture.

Most of Rideau Hall is used for state affairs, only 500 m < sup > 2 </ sup > ( 5, 400 sq ft ) of its area being dedicated to private living quarters, while additional areas serve as the offices of the Canadian Heraldic Authority and the principal workplace of the governor general and his or her staff either the term Rideau Hall, as a metonym, or the formal idiom Government House is employed to refer to this bureaucratic branch.

The Red House Hill area is primarily a mix of hilly 20 to 100 acre ( 80, 000 to 400, 000 m² ) farms ( including cattle, horses, limited tobacco production, corn, etc.

Whatever the truth of this story, Hatton's loyalty to his sovereign appears to have been unquestioned, and on one memorable occasion in December 1584 he led 400 kneeling members of the House of Commons in a prayer for the Queen's safety.

After this, the House of Habsburg inherited the throne, and ruled Hungary from Austria during almost 400 years until 1918.

After receiving approximately 400 German-Expressionist pieces by collector Galka E. Scheyer in 1953, the Pasadena Art Institute changed its name to the Pasadena Art Museum in 1954 and occupied the Chinoiserie-style “ The Grace Nicholson Treasure House of Oriental Art ” building ( now the Pacific Asia Museum ) on North Los Robles Avenue until 1970.

* War, Evil and End of History, Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd, ( Melville House Publishing ), October 2004, hardcover, 400 pages, ISBN 0-7156-3336-8 ; paperback, ISBN 978-0-9718659-5-2

1, 000 signatures are required for a U. S. House race and 10, 000 for a statewide race ( i. e. U. S. President, U. S. Senate, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Attorney General ), including 400 from each Congressional district.

The lower house is the New Hampshire House of Representatives with 400 members.

A similar exercise by the Census Bureau after the 1900 census computed apportionments for all House sizes between 350 and 400: Colorado would have received three seats in all cases, except with a House size of 357 in which case it would have received two.

Eau Claire alumni include Ann Devroy, the former White House correspondent at The Washington Post ; T. Keith Glennan, the first administrator of NASA ; Mark Andrew Green, a congressman and ambassador known for his work with malaria ; Stanford University climate scientist Pamela Matson, winner of the MacArthur Fellowship ; Forbes 400 billionaire and entrepreneur John Menard ; stage and film actress Laila Robins ; chemist Richard Saykally, 1932 Professor Chair at the University of California, Berkeley ; Justin Vernon, Grammy Award-winning lead singer of Bon Iver ; and poet and literary critic Elizabeth Willis, winner of the National Poetry Series and the Guggenheim Fellowship.

This decision was upheld at the Court of Appeal, and the BBBoC did not appeal to the House of Lords, selling their London headquarters to pay out a £ 400, 000 compensation settlement.