. A topographical dictionary of England : comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate and market towns, parishes, and townships, and the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man, with historical and statistical descriptions ; and embellished with engravings of the arms of the cities, bouroughs, bishoprics, universities, and colleges, and of the seals of the various municipal corporations. he act 5th and 6th of William IV., cap. 76, and thenumber of magistrates is six; the borough is dividedinto two wards, and the municipal and parliamentaryboundaries, including 812 acres, are co-e
. A topographical dictionary of England : comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate and market towns, parishes, and townships, and the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man, with historical and statistical descriptions ; and embellished with engravings of the arms of the cities, bouroughs, bishoprics, universities, and colleges, and of the seals of the various municipal corporations. he act 5th and 6th of William IV., cap. 76, and thenumber of magistrates is six; the borough is dividedinto two wards, and the municipal and parliamentaryboundaries, including 812 acres, are co-extensive. Fromits union, it continued to return four members to parlia-ment until the 2nd of William IV., when it was deprivedof two : the mayor is returning officer. There is a courtof record every Tuesday, for the recovery of debts toany amount. The powers of the county debt-court ofWeymouth, established in 1S47, extend over the regis-tration-district of Weymouth. A handsome town-hall,in the market-place, has been erected within the last fewyears, the old one having become dilapidated ; under itare a small prison and watch-house. Weymouth is a chapelry to Wyke-Regis : the titheshave been commuted for £20. The chapel, dedicatedto St. Nicholas, and situated on the top of the hill, longsince disappeared ; but the site, called Chapel-Hay, isdistinctly marked by large stones at the four Corporation Seal. W HAD WHAL Under the hill, and nearly adjoining this site, a churchdedicated to the Holy Trinity was built from a design byMr. P. Wyatt, at the expense of the Rev. George Cham-berlaine, late rector of Wyke : underneath it are cata-combs capable of containing upwards of 1000 was originally a chapelry to Radipole, fromwhich it was separated in 1605, when a church was builton the site of the former chapel, and made parochial :the living is a rectory, with the living of Radipole an-nexed, valued in the kings books at £11. 5. 5. ; net in-come, £298 ; patron
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