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Encyclopedia Britannica



MIDHURST

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 418 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MIC-MOL
MIDHURST , a market town in the north-western parliamentary division of Sussex, England, 12 M. N. by E. of Chichester by the London, Brighton & South Coast railway; served also by the London & South Western railway. Pop. (19ox); 1674. It is pleasantly situated on slightly rising ground near the river Rother. The church of St Mary Magdalen and St Denis is a large Perpendicular building. The town retains several picturesque old houses, and in the vicinity, by the river, are the ruins of the 16th century
mansion
  of Cowdray, burnt down in 1793. A grammar-school was founded at Midhurst in 1672 and attained some eminence. After being closed for many years it was re-opened in 1880. In 1906 a magnificent sanatorium for consumptives was opened about 4 M. from Midhurst; it bears the name of King Edward VII., who laid its foundation stone and opened it.
The name of Midhurst (Middeherst, Mudhurst) first occurs in the reign of
Henry
  I. when Savaric Fitz-Cana held it of the honour of Arundel, then presumably in the king's hands. The charter of
Henry
  I., although no longer extant, is quoted in later confirmation charters of Richard I., Henry III., Edward III. and Richard II. Franco de
Bohun
  inherited Midhurst from his uncle Savaric Fitz-Savaric, and the De Bohuns held the lordship until 1499 when Sir David Owen obtained it through his
marriage
  with the daughter of the last male
heir
 . He sold it to Sir William Fitz-William, from whom it passed to Sir Anthony Browne and descended to the viscounts Montague. Midhurst is definitely called a borough in the reign of Edward I., but the borough-court and market were probably in existence much earlier. It was governed by a bailiff, elected annually, until the office lapsed, probably early in the 19th century. In an act of 1883 it is mentioned as one of the towns which had long ceased to be municipal. No charter of incorporation is known. Midhurst returned two members to
parliament
  from 13001301 till 1832, and from that date one member until 1885 when it was disfranchised. In the reign of Henry VI. a market was held by the burgesses every Thursday, and a
fair
  on Whit-Tuesday, by grant from Sir John
Bohun
 . In 1888 the
fair
 -days were the 6th of April, the 9th of May and the 29th of October. The market-day was Thursday. Pleasure-fairs are still held on the 6th of April and the 29th of October, but there is no market.


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