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Encyclopedia Britannica



PRITTLEWELL

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 370 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PRE-PYR
PRITTLEWELL , a residential parish in the borough of Southend-on-Sea, and in the S.E. parliamentary division of Essex, England; lying r'i m. inland (N.N.W.) from Southend, with a station on the Southend branch of the
Great
  Eastern railway. The
church
  of St Mary the Virgin has fine Perpendicular
work
  and traces of Norman
work
 . There are fragments o( a Cluniac priory of the 12th century. Pop. (19or),. 27,245.
ment of Ardeche, 95 M. S. by W. of Lyons on a branch line of the railway from that city to Nimes. Pop. (1906), town, 3495; commune, 7000. Privas is situated near the Ouveze, here joined by the Mezayon and Chazalon. The town is the seat of a prefecture, a court of assizes and a tribunal of first instance. Other institutions are training colleges for both sexes, a communal college and a lunatic asylum for the departments of Ardeche and
DrOme
 . Silk-milling is carried on. The rearing of silk-worms and the cultivation of the mulberry are widespread
industries
 . There are mines of iron ore in the vicinity.
Trade
  is in silk, tanned leather, game, chestnuts and fruit preserves.
Privas is first heard of in the 12th century, as a possession of the
counts
  of Valentinois, and subsequently became the seat of a
separate
  barony. One of the strongholds of the Reformed Faith, it suffered terribly during the Wars of Religion. In-effectually besieged by the royal troops in 1574, it passed in 1619, by the
marriage
  of the heiress of the barony, Paule de Chambaud, into the possession of the vicomte de Lestrange, a Roman Catholic noble. A general rising followed, and in 1629 it was besieged and taken by Louis XIII. It was reduced to ruins, and the king decreed that it should not be again inhabited; but in 1632, some of the townspeople having fought against Lestrange, who had joined Montmorency's rebellion, the inhabitants were allowed to return. Some ancient houses, which escaped the general destruction, are still
standing
 .


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