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GUISE 



erected, and it was afterwards 

 increased. The offices of the trust 

 are 5, Victoria Street, London, 

 S.W. See, Housing. 



Guinobatan. Town of Luzon, 

 Philippine Islands. It stands on 

 the Inaya river, 10 m. N.W. of 

 Albay. It has a trade in the hemp 

 produced in the locality. Pop. 

 20,000. 



Guipure. Lace-making term. 

 The word comes from Fr. guiper, to 

 whip, or cover, a thread, and ori- 

 ginally denoted the silk-whipped 

 cord or wire used in lace-making. 

 It was also applied to the cartisane 

 of parchment lace, i.e. to the small 

 pieces of parchment or vellum 

 whipped round with gold or silver 

 thread. Gradually lace made with 

 guipure came to be known itself as 

 guipure, and the name was also 

 used of imitation parchment lace. 

 The term is now applied generally 

 to lace with no mesh ground, with 

 the patterns tied with brides or large 



Guipure. Example of the lace of 

 stitches, as in modern Honiton and 

 Maltese lace ; to lace made with 

 gimp, and to some kinds of gimp. 

 See Lace. 



Gnipuzcoa. Maritime province 

 of N. Spain. The Bay of Biscay 

 washes its N. shores, and the river 

 Bidassoa separates it from France 

 on the N.E. One of the Basque 

 provinces, it is the smallest but 

 most densely populated in Spain, 

 with a population of 344 per sq. m. 

 There are pine, oak, and chestnut 

 forests, and fruit orchards. Mineral 

 springs abound ; cod, tunny, and 

 sardine fisheries are important, 

 and oysters are bred. It is in- 

 habited mainly by the Basques, 

 who still retain their language 

 and customs. The capital is 

 San Sebastian*. Area, 728 sq. m. 

 Pop. 250,934. 



Guiraut de Borneil (c. 1138- 

 1220). Provenyal troubadour. He 

 was born at Excideuil, Dordogne, 

 and accompanied Richard Cceur de 

 Lion on the third crusade. Though 

 known as " master of the trouba- 

 dours," he has received but scant 

 attention at the hands of students, 

 only a portion of the eighty of his 

 poems which survive having been 

 edited, by A. Kolsen, 1894. 



Guisborough. Market town 

 and urban district of Yorkshire 

 (N.R. ). It is 9 m. S.E. of Middles- 

 brough, on the N.E. Rly., and 



stands in a valley 

 beneath the Cleve- 

 land Hills. The 

 chief buildings are 

 the church of S. 

 Nicholas, a Per- 

 pendicular edifice, 

 the town hall, and 

 the grammar 

 school. Here was 

 an Augustinian 

 priory, some few 

 remains of which 

 still exist. It is 

 said to have been 

 founded in 1109 

 by one of the Bruce 

 family. The industries are mainly 

 connected with tho iron found in 

 the Cleveland district. Market 

 day, Tues. Pop. 7,000. 



Guiscard. Village of France, in 

 the dept. of Oise. It is 19 m. N.N.E. 

 of Compiegne and 6 m. S. of Ham, 

 through which passes the high road 

 to St. Quentin. Prominent in the 

 Great War, it was 

 occupied by the 

 French, March 19, 

 1917, and retaken 

 by the Germans in 

 March, 1918, the 

 British 20th and 

 36th divisions 

 being driven back 

 during the Ger- 

 this name man offensive. It 



was finally retaken by the Allies 

 in Sept., 1918. See Somme, Bat- 

 tles of the. 



Guiscard, ROBERT (c. 1020-85)- 

 Norman warrior. Born in Nor- 

 mandy, he was a younger son of 

 Tancred de Hauteville. About 

 1046 he went to Italy, whither his 

 elder brothers had preceded him, 

 they being among the Normans 

 who had just taken Apulia from 

 the Greeks. Three of them were 

 chosen in turn count of Apulia, and 

 to this office, in 1057, Robert, who 

 had also made a name as a warrior, 

 succeeded. He continued the Nor- 

 man work of conquest and was 

 recognized as a duke by the pope. 

 In 1081 he led 

 an army to 

 Greece, and 

 defeated the 

 emperor's 

 troops at Dur- 

 azzo, returning 

 to Italy to help 

 Pope Gregory 

 VII, then at 

 war with the 

 emperor Henry 

 IV. Guiscard 

 drove Henry': 

 troops from be- 

 fore Rome, 

 which he en- 

 tered, and to 

 which he re- 



Guisborough, Yorkshire. Ruins o! the Augustinian 

 priory, a 12th century foundation 



stored Gregory. He renewed war 

 against Byzantium, but died at 

 Cephalonia, July, 1085. The name 

 Guiscard means resourceful. 



Guise. Town of France, in the 

 dept. of Aisne. It stands on the 

 Oise, 30 m. N. of Laon. The castle 

 dates in part from the 16th century. 

 Here are works for making stoves 

 and similar goods, conducted on the 

 cooperative principle ; in connexion 

 with them is a large building where 

 the workmen live on the com- 

 munistic plan. This was founded 

 about 1850 by J. B. Godin, who 

 followed the principles advocated 

 by Fourier. Camille Desmoulins 

 was born in the town. Guise is 

 chiefly known as having given its 

 name to a noted French family. 

 In the Middle Ages it was the 

 capital of a county. The town was 

 taken by the Germans in 1914, in 

 their first onrush towards Paris, 

 but was recovered during the 

 final advance of the Allies in Oct., 

 1918. Pop. 8,100. 



Guise OR ST. QUENTIN, BATTLE 

 OF. Fought between the French 

 and Germans during the Great 

 War, Aug. 29-30, 1914. On its re- 

 treat from Charleroi the 5th French 

 army under Lanrezac, four corps 

 strong, had reached positions S. of 

 the Oise at Guise when it received 

 orders from Joffre to take the offen- 

 sive against St. Quentin, 15 m. 

 W.S.W. of Guise. Joffre's object 



Guise, France. 



Part of the town and the 16th century 

 castle 



