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West Looe was given free borough status sometime after this ( the first known historical mention of the town dates from 1327 ) and in the 1230s East Looe gained the right to hold a weekly market and a Michaelmas fair.
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* John Young ( 16th century MP ) ( by 1519-1589 ), MP for Devizes, West Looe etc.
Looe is divided in two by the River Looe, East Looe () and West Looe () being connected by a bridge.
The town is situated around a small harbour and along the steep-sided valley of the River Looe which flows between East and West Looe to the sea beside a sandy beach.
Another chapel sat opposite on a hillside just outside West Looe ; both are now marked only by ruins.
The parish church of West Looe was originally at Talland but there was a chapel of ease in the town.
St. Nicholas ' Church in West Looe was in existence before 1330, at which time it was endowed and enlarged.
Between their incorporation in the 16th century ( East Looe 1571, West Looe 1553 ) and the Great Reform Act of 1832, West Looe and East Looe were renowned examples of rotten boroughs, each returning two MPs to the unreformed House of Commons, despite their tiny populations.
For example, Admiral Sir Charles Wager, a son and grandson of Kentish mariners, held the office of West Looe MP early ( 1713 – 1715 ) and at the end ( 1741 – 1743 ) of his political career.
The seal of West Looe was An armed man holding a bow in his right hand and an arrow in his left, with the legend " Por-tu-an other wys Westlo ".
On the high ground north of East and West Looe there are many modern houses and a recreational area called ' The Downs '.
View down West Looe Hill, looking towards the harbour
West Looe spreads west from the bridge on the Polperro Road towards Sclerder, and along the river south of the bridge, with hotels, restaurants and boarding houses along the waterfront and houses climbing the perilous cliff above, towards a cluster of shops and businesses and the Church of St Nicholas.
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`` They knew I was a good sharecrop farmer back in Carolina, but out West was a chance to build a real farm of our own.
He went to Key West every fall and winter and was the only man in town who did not know that his title of `` Commodore '' was never used without irony.
It was essential that he should restore his formidable reputation as a rip-roaring, ruthless gun-slinger, and this was the time-honored Wild West method of doing it.
Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??
It was conceived as a leave-taking, a kind of melancholy gathering-in of the myths of the West, `` bevor die Nacht sinkt, eine lange Nacht vielleicht und ein tiefes Vergessen ''.
But again, there was danger that his lungs would suffer in the muggy Washington weather, and he had to return to the dry climate of the West to live and work.
In 1952, the European Coal and Steel Community was launched, placing the coal and steel production of France, West Germany, Italy and Benelux under a supranational High Authority.
Meanwhile, in Moscow, Khrushchev was adding his bit to the march of world law by promising to build a bomb with a wallop equal to 100 million tons of TNT, to knock sense into the heads of those backward oafs who can't see the justice of surrendering West Berlin to communism.
As was to be expected Kennedy's latest speech was greeted with enthusiasm by revenge-seeking circles in Bonn, where officials of the West German government praised it ''.
The crisis was artificially stirred up by the Kremlin ( Wall Street ) and the Red Army ( Pentagon ) egged on by the West Germans ( East Germans ).
The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.
By our policy the West was -- is -- split.
And one cannot but wonder whether Marshal Malinovsky, who was blowing hot and cold, exalting peace but also almost openly considering the possibility of preventive war against the West, wasn't trying to keep the Chinese quiet.
that he moved with his parents to West Boxford when he was sixteen years old ; ;
The West was now glad to propose the 1919 Curzon Line, which was substantially Russia's 1941 border, as the boundary between Russia and Poland.
The West had long since forgotten the events of 1919, but it was not so easy for the Red leaders, who felt that they had suffered great injustice in that period.
Of more importance to the West than Poland's boundaries was the character of her government.
The reception was held in a private dining room of the Webster Hotel on Lincoln Park West.
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The disposition of Essex, held by West Saxon kings since the days of Egbert, is unclear from the treaty, though, given Alfred ’ s political and military superiority, it would have been surprising if he had conceded any disputed territory to his new godson.
Treatment of eschatology continued in the West in the teachings of Tertullian ( c. 160 – 225 ), and was given fuller reflection and speculation soon after by Origen ( c. 185 – 254 ).
The Chronicle dates Cerdic's arrival to 495, but adding up the lengths of the reigns as given in the West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List, leads to the conclusion that Cerdic's reign might have started in 532, a difference of 37 years.
Whereas it may have given “ The West ” an advantage when it came to exploration, it also created zones of racial inferiority.
The map covered the wide area stretching from Lake Superior to the Pacific, and was given by Thompson to the North West Company.
On June 2, 1621, it was granted a charter for a trade monopoly in the West Indies ( meaning the Caribbean ) by the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands and given jurisdiction over the African slave trade, Brazil, the Caribbean, and North America.
However, throughout Germanic tradition, given names which contain elf as an element are frequently attested, suggesting that the malevolent or evil image of elves in West Germanic tradition was a secondary development, reinforced by Christianization.
The 1962 constitution had provided the presidential system for both provincial states ( West Pakistan and East Pakistan ) that each states were given autonomy to run their separate presidential provincial governments.
A license typically allows the holder to carry one handgun, in some cases a long gun, and residents in certain settlements such as the West Bank are issued firearms by the government and given civil defense training.
The following season he was in the West Ham side which lost the League Cup final on aggregate to West Bromwich Albion, and in February 1966 he was given his debut for England by manager Alf Ramsey.
* 1920: Gdingen ( now named Gdynia ), along with other parts of former West Prussia, became a part of the new Republic of Poland ; simultaneously, the city of Danzig and surrounding area was declared a free city and put under the League of Nations, though Poland was given economic liberties and requisitioned for matters of foreign representation.
West writes, " Both bear the marks of a distinct personality: a surly, conservative countryman, given to reflection, no lover of women or life, who felt the gods ' presence heavy about him.
U. S .- Malian relations are described by the U. S. Department of State as " excellent and expanding ," especially given Mali's recent record of democratic stability in the volatile area of West Africa and its avowed support of the war on terrorism.
An incident in the second Test of the 1960 – 61 series involved the West Indies player Joe Solomon being given out after his hat fell on the stumps after being bowled at by Richie Benaud.
Soon after the political reforms of 1956, Masurians were given the opportunity to join their families in West Germany.
The name Despoina was given in West Arcadia.
" The occasion is essentially dull and immobile because we are never properly placed in it, drawn neither East nor West, given no specific emotional or cultural bearings.
When Robert was 17 in 1824, Fitzhugh wrote to the Secretary of War, John C. Calhoun, urging that Robert be given an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Robin Hood himself was once thought to have been buried in the grounds of Kirklees Priory between Brighouse and Mirfield in West Yorkshire, although for the reasons given above this theory has now largely been abandoned.
Many of the " Black Poor " were African Americans, who had been given their freedom after seeking refuge with the British Army during the American Revolution, but also included other West Indian, African and Asian inhabitants of London.
* Ottawa, Ontario, was given its large area by the amalgamation in 2001 of the old City of Ottawa, the suburbs of Nepean, Kanata, Gloucester, Rockcliffe Park, Vanier and Cumberland, Orleans, and the rural townships of West Carleton, Osgoode, Rideau, and Goulbourn
* 843: The three sons of Louis the Pious reach an agreement known as the Treaty of Verdun and split the Carolingian empire into three divisions ; East Francia was given to Louis the German, West Francia to Charles the Bald and Middle Francia to Lothair I.
* Most of West Frisia ( later known as Holland ) is conquered by imperial German armies and given to the Bishop of Utrecht.
Repair efforts were completed in 1893 and the fort was given by the Native Sons of the Golden West to the State of California.
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