In Paris, before the Revolution, this word was applied both to a particular building and to the jurisdiction of which it was the seat. When the baillis see Bailiff AND Bailie were created, the provost of Paris naturally discharged the duties and functions of a bailli , in which capacity he heard appeals from the seigniorial and inferior judges of the city and its neighbourhood, keeping, however, his title of provost.
When under Henry II. Finally, various tribunals peculiar to the city of Paris, i. Like the baillis , the provost had lieutenants who were deputies for him, and in addition gradually acquired a considerable body of ex officio councillors. The manufacture of cutlery is carried on on a large scale in villages on the banks of the Clain, south of the town. In it was bestowed on James Hamilton, 2nd earl of Arran see Hamilton.
It was mainly by this fortunate transaction that the governor was enabled to raise his family, which was one of old standing, to a position of wealth and political influence. The latter he acquired by purchasing the burgage tenures of Old Sarum. William Pitt was educated at Eton, and in January was entered as a gentleman commoner at Trinity College, Oxford. There is evidence that he was an extensively read, if not a minutely accurate classical scholar; and it is interesting to know that Demosthenes was his favourite author, and that he diligently cultivated the faculty of expression by the practice of translation and re-translation.
An hereditary gout, from which 2 he had suffered even during his school-days, compelled him to leave the university without taking his degree, in order to travel abroad. He spent some time in France and Italy; but the disease proved intractable, and he continued subject to attacks of growing intensity at frequent intervals till the close of his life.
In his father had died, and on his return home it was necessary for him, as the younger son, to choose a profession. But his military career was destined to be short. His elder brother Thomas having been returned at the general election of both for Oakhampton and for Old Sarum, and having preferred to sit for the former, the family borough fell to the younger brother by the sort of natural right usually recognized in such cases.
