By the middle of the 15th century England was increasingly divided between the rival royal factions of the Lancastrians and the Yorkists. |
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Custom required that the royal family and the whole Court should be present at the accouchement of the Princesses. |
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Antimonarchical sentiment threatened to sweep away the last vestige of royal prerogative. |
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The Prince of Wales bore the royal arms differenced by a plain label Argent of three points. |
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The college statutes required them to fill the vacancy within a certain time and so could not wait for a further royal nomination. |
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Corporations were purged by agents given wide discretionary powers in an attempt to create a permanent royal electoral machine. |
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This initial royal favour has continued and, since then, every monarch has been the patron of the society. |
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The society also elects royal fellows, honorary fellows and foreign members. |
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The Act, which restated and confirmed many provisions of the earlier Declaration of Right, established restrictions on the royal prerogative. |
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Meanwhile, the royal court at Versailles was isolated from and indifferent to the escalating crisis. |
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By 27 June, the royal party had overtly given in, although the military began to arrive in large numbers around Paris and Versailles. |
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On the night of 20 June 1791 the royal family fled the Tuileries Palace dressed as servants, while their servants dressed as nobles. |
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The King had to share power with the elected Legislative Assembly, but he retained his royal veto and the ability to select ministers. |
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In the Old regime there were a small number of heavily censored newspapers that needed a royal licence to operate. |
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Following the Acts of Union 1800, the royal arms were amended, dropping the French quartering. |
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Bhaktapur Durbar Square is the plaza in front of the royal palace of the old Bhaktapur Kingdom. |
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For instance, the monarch of the United Kingdom can theoretically exercise an absolute veto over legislation by withholding royal assent. |
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Acts which made it high treason to deny Philip's royal authority were passed in England and Ireland. |
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So in 1264, Montfort summoned the first parliament in English history without any prior royal authorisation. |
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The palace is owned by the monarch in right of the Crown and for ceremonial purposes, retains its original status as a royal residence. |
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Although Westminster officially remained a royal palace, it was used by the two Houses of Parliament and by the various royal law courts. |
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The House's mace, which represents royal authority, is placed on the back of the Woolsack. |
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Prior to this, the power to dissolve Parliament was a royal prerogative, exercised by the sovereign on the advice of the prime minister. |
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The royal judges created a body of law by combining local customs they were made aware of through traveling and visiting local jurisdictions. |
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Rockingham Forest was designated as a royal hunting forest by William the Conqueror, and was long used by English kings and queens. |
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There was a royal palace at Cheddar, which was used at times in the 10th century to host the Witenagemot. |
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Chivalry and the ethos of courtly love developed in royal and noble courts. |
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The long conflicts of the period strengthened royal control over their kingdoms and were extremely hard on the peasantry. |
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Kings profited from warfare that extended royal legislation and increased the lands they directly controlled. |
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The office of lieutenant was honorary, and held during the royal pleasure, but virtually for life. |
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Some of the government's executive authority is theoretically and nominally vested in the Sovereign and is known as the royal prerogative. |
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John's reign was marked by conflict with the barons, particularly over the limits of royal power. |
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The next monarch, Edward Longshanks, was far more successful in maintaining royal power and responsible for the conquest of Wales. |
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The reigns of both Robert II and his successor, Robert III, were marked by a general decline in royal power. |
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It is the site of most state banquets, investitures, royal christenings and other ceremonies. |
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The royal forest was granted a charter in the 13th century, however foresters who managed the area were identified in the Domesday Book. |
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The terms steward, warden and forester appear to be synonymous for the king's chief officer of the royal forest. |
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It lists those places that have been granted city status by letters patent or royal charter. |
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Competitions for new grants of city status have been held to mark special events, such as coronations, royal jubilees or the Millennium. |
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As stocks grew, with new companies joining to raise capital, the royal court also raised some monies. |
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The company also holds royal warrants from Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles. |
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In April 1705, Queen Anne knighted Newton during a royal visit to Trinity College, Cambridge. |
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Before the bill could be debated in the House of Commons, the Government elected to proceed under the royal prerogative of mercy. |
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The Queen's action is only the fourth royal pardon granted since the conclusion of the Second World War. |
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The devastation of Northumbria's Holy Island shocked and alerted the royal courts of Europe to the Viking presence. |
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The Wessex royal line was traditionally founded by a man named Cerdic, an undoubtedly Celtic name ultimately derived from Caratacus. |
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Such visits would be periodic and it is likely that he would visit each royal villa only once or twice a year. |
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Roman jewelry and coins have been found at several Irish royal sites, for example. |
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The Hussain Shahi dynasty established royal libraries during the Bengal Sultanate. |
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The royal baptism probably took place at Canterbury but Bede does not mention the location. |
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In 1871 the Quirinal Palace was confiscated by the king of Italy and became the royal palace. |
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Charles also inherited the tradition of political and dynastic enmity between the royal and the Burgundian ducal lines of the Valois dynasty. |
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British coronations are held in Westminster Abbey, a royal peculiar under the direct jurisdiction of the monarch. |
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Between 1042 and 1052, King Edward the Confessor began rebuilding St Peter's Abbey to provide himself with a royal burial church. |
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The abbot often was employed on royal service and in due course took his place in the House of Lords as of right. |
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Henry III rebuilt the abbey in honour of a royal saint, Edward the Confessor, whose relics were placed in a shrine in the sanctuary. |
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It was a royal ceremonial funeral including royal pageantry and Anglican funeral liturgy. |
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It dates to the late 11th century and was used as a monastic and royal treasury. |
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In the south transept is a rose window whose glass dates from about 1500 and commemorates the union of the royal houses of York and Lancaster. |
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His principled opposition to royal prerogatives over the church, meanwhile, twice led to his exile from England. |
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In 680 Wilfrid returned to Northumbria and appeared before a royal council. |
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Kirby believes that Ecgfrith felt Wilfrid was promoting Oswald's branch of the Northumbrian royal family over his own. |
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Wilfrid left large sums of money to his monastic foundations, enabling them to purchase royal favour. |
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His election was confirmed on 23 May 1162 by a royal council of bishops and noblemen. |
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Henry may have hoped that Becket would continue to put the royal government first, rather than the church. |
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Srauta rituals declined in India and were replaced with Buddhist and Hindu initiatory rituals for royal courts. |
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Various classes of Vajrayana literature developed as a result of royal courts sponsoring both Buddhism and Saivism. |
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After being royal pages, he would then served in the Mahattai Ministry or other government ministries. |
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Several royal colleges and the Imperial Institute merged to form what is now Imperial College London. |
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In 1836 UCL became one of the two founding colleges of the University of London, which was granted a royal charter in the same year. |
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In 1836, London University was incorporated by royal charter under the name University College, London. |
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King's was established in 1829 by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington and received its royal charter in the same year. |
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She was able to save a good part of the school, although the royal bequest and the number of staff were much reduced. |
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Temporary triumphal arches made of lath and plaster were often erected for royal entries. |
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Sometimes the arches depicted were not even real structures but existed entirely as imaginary representations of royal propaganda. |
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By the 9th century the old Roman street pattern was lost and Bath was a royal possession. |
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The beginning of the Tudor period marked the start of the decline of the Tower of London's use as a royal residence. |
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The position grew to include other duties including purchasing royal jewels, gold, and silver, and appointing royal goldsmiths and jewellers. |
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In 1649, during the English Civil War, the contents of the Jewel House were disposed of along with other royal properties. |
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The royal collection was swelled by diplomatic gifts including three leopards from Frederick III, the Holy Roman Emperor. |
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A group of magnates led by the Earl of Warwick and Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, accused Gaveston of stealing the royal treasure. |
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Windsor Castle is a royal residence at Windsor in the English county of Berkshire. |
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It is notable for its long association with the English and later British royal family and for its architecture. |
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Queen Victoria made a few minor changes to the castle, which became the centre for royal entertainment for much of her reign. |
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They received a royal welcome as they stepped off the plane. |
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The civil war and the years of the Interregnum had caused extensive damage to the royal palaces in England. |
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Windsor was the only royal palace to be successfully fully modernised by Charles II in the Restoration years. |
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New paintings were purchased for the castle, and collections from other royal palaces moved there by the king. |
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At the end of this period Windsor Castle became a place of royal confinement. |
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Few visitors found these occasions comfortable, both due to the design of the castle and the excessive royal formality. |
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Furthermore, like other occupied royal palaces, it was not insured on grounds of economy. |
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Others were adjacent to or in royal forests or deer parks and were important in their upkeep. |
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India possesses some of the most fascinating forts and palaces, a true royal retreat. |
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Remnants of palaces and royal houses still can be found in Banten, Medan, Ternate, Bali and Bima. |
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One of its attraction is the ancient royal palace where the Malla Kings of Lalitpur resided. |
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Many of these buildings have a history of over 1000 years, ranging from fortifications to royal residences. |
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Many German castles after the middle ages were mainly built as royal or ducal palaces rather than as a fortified building. |
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Located on the top floor were probably the private quarters of the royal family and some storerooms. |
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The most important royal palazzi in Italy are those in Naples, Palermo, Turin, as well as the Quirinale Palace in Rome. |
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Due to its relatively small dimension, most of Portugal's are former royal residences. |
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Previously, it had been known as Walkfares, but like several other palaces, the name stuck even once the royal connection ended. |
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This burnt to the ground at Christmas 1497, with the royal family in residence, and Henry began a new palace in a version of Renaissance style. |
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Sherwood Forest is a royal forest in Nottinghamshire, England, famous by its historic association with the legend of Robin Hood. |
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The Sherwood Forest Trust is a small charity that covers the ancient royal boundary and current national character area of Sherwood Forest. |
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Cordelia receives him compassionately and restores his royal robes and retinue. |
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Pilgrims came to touch the royal shrine of the murdered Henry VI, the fragment of the True Cross and other important relics. |
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Despite its royal dependence, like many commercial centres, Windsor was a Parliamentarian town. |
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In 1778, there was a resumption of the royal presence, with George III at the Queen's Lodge and, from 1804, at the castle. |
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She was later buried there upon her own death, along with a number of other subsequent members of the royal family. |
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The use of torture was forbidden, except by royal prerogative or a body such as the Privy Council or Star Chamber. |
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He parted company with Bonnet and settled in Bath Town, where he accepted a royal pardon. |
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Teach had at some stage learnt of the offer of a royal pardon and probably confided in Bonnet his willingness to accept it. |
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He claimed that during a drinking session Teach had shot him in the knee, and that he was still covered by the royal pardon. |
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That royal support contributed to the outlawing of maypole displays and dancing during the English Interregnum. |
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As the Tower is still officially a royal residence, and is also the location of the crown jewels, it remains the army's obligation to guard it. |
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The guards remain a fully functional part of royal defences though through the years they have become a tourist attraction. |
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Claiming direct descent from the old Axumite royal house, the Solomonic ruled the region well into modern history. |
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According to Bolingbroke, Mowbray had claimed that the two, as former Lords Appellant, were next in line for royal retribution. |
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As part of Richard's programme of asserting his authority, he also tried to cultivate the royal image. |
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Even outside the convent her actions were governed by the strict etiquette of the royal court of Portugal. |
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The royal arms of the British monarch are impaled with the royal arms of her father. |
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He had been made a royal counsellor, drawing a substantial annual salary of a hundred marks. |
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The royal accounts for the period survive, but are not always easy to interpret. |
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He was soon at work for Cromwell's propaganda machine, creating images in support of the royal supremacy. |
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Jean Fouquet, painter of the royal court, visited Italy in 1437 and reflects the influence of Florentine painters such as Paolo Uccello. |
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In 1780, he painted the portraits of King George III and his queen and afterwards received many royal commissions. |
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In 1784, royal painter Allan Ramsay died and the King was obliged to give the job to Gainsborough's rival and Academy president, Joshua Reynolds. |
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Almost immediately, on 22 June, he began as Deputy Forester in the royal forest of Petherton Park in North Petherton, Somerset. |
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Thynne had a successful career from the 1520s until his death in 1546, when he was one of the masters of the royal household. |
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Critics have speculated on which late work triggered the royal wine allowance mentioned in the Life section. |
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The royal couple has requested that the students investigate the cause of Hamlet's mood and behavior. |
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This work specifically advises royal retainers to amuse their masters with inventive language. |
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Macbeth invites Banquo to a royal banquet, where he discovers that Banquo and his young son, Fleance, will be riding out that night. |
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His staging was full of spectacle, including several elaborate royal processions. |
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This sign of royal favour may have encouraged him to publish the first volume of the folio collected edition of his works that year. |
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Despite Bacon's advice to him, James and the Commons found themselves at odds over royal prerogatives and the king's embarrassing extravagance. |
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The divine right of kings, divine right, or God's mandate is a political and religious doctrine of royal and political legitimacy. |
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His Absalom and Achitophel and Religio Laici both served the King directly by making controversial royal actions seem reasonable. |
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In 1665, Muddiman produced the Oxford Gazette as a digest of news of the royal court, which was in Oxford to avoid the plague in London. |
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He managed, however, to abolish 134 offices in the royal household and civil administration. |
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In 1700, his family moved to a small estate at Popeswood in Binfield, Berkshire, close to the royal Windsor Forest. |
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For some years after this, he was busy in the production of sacred music, odes addressed to the king and royal family, and other similar works. |
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The strong support by Frederick, Prince of Wales caused conflicts in the royal family. |
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He made a royal progress through Chichester, Havant, Portsmouth and Guildford in southern England. |
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George donated the royal library to the British Museum in 1757, four years after the museum's foundation. |
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The province of Georgia, founded by royal charter in 1732, was named after him. |
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Unskilled in the royal talent of dissimulation, he always was what he appeared to be. |
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There was a royal performance of Messiah in 1743, which was a success and began a tradition of Lenten oratorio performances. |
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The Department also has responsibility for state ceremonial occasions and royal funerals. |
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The first national libraries had their origins in the royal collections of the sovereign or some other supreme body of the state. |
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His son Constantius II made this dream a reality and created an imperial library in a portico of the royal palace. |
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The late 18th century saw the nationalisation of royal or princely art collections across mainland Europe. |
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To visit the undersea realm of Artur, the High Prince, and the rest of the royal merfamily, she has to fin it to the Cayman Islands. |
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With royal support, horse racing became popular with the public, and by 1727, a newspaper devoted to racing, the Racing Calendar, was founded. |
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Chelsea's regular kit colours are royal blue shirts and shorts with white socks. |
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The new marathon distance was chosen to ensure that the race finished in front of the box occupied by the British royal family. |
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However, the flag was later dipped in the collective greeting of the royal family. |
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The manor of Huddersfield was owned by the de Lacy family until 1322, at which it reverted to royal ownership. |
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In 1933 the Prince of Wales attended Central Park, becoming the first royal to watch a rugby league match. |
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The Away kits have been in different shades of blue over the years, royal blue, navy blue and light blue with varied designs. |
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Some years ago there was a demand from Irish quarters that the blue ground of the golden harp on the royal standard should be changed to green. |
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The Hawaiian king then adopted and flew the flag as a symbol of his own royal authority not recognising its national derivation. |
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James I of England and VI of Scotland used a badge consisting of a Tudor rose dimidiated with a thistle and surmounted by a royal crown. |
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It features in the design of the British Twenty Pence coin minted between 1982 and 2008, and in the royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom. |
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In 1219, Gilbert le Gluton held land and an oven in Nottingham by sergeancy as a royal bailiff errant. |
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There is the Professor's nightly bath, for instance, which has all the solemn trappings of a royal balneation. |
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Marc Valeric, a Beverly Hills milliner, sold 125 bespoke hats in two weeks to women desperate to dress properly for royal receptions. |
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Would Charles X. derogate from his ancestors? Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line? |
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The three estates of feudal lords, clergy and royal officers met in separate chambers, and exercised an advisory role. |
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Sarah waved one hand at us in this floppy-wristed way, like she was dismissing us from her royal throne room. |
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For those, who are come over to the royal party, are consequently supposed to be out of gunshot. |
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This was despite continual warfare with England, the increasing division between Highlands and Lowlands, and a large number of royal minorities. |
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For Henry, the marriage into one of Europe's most established monarchies gave legitimacy to the new Tudor royal line. |
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The earliest Welsh genealogies give Maximus the role of founding father for several royal dynasties, including those of Powys and Gwent. |
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The red dragon was then included in the Tudor royal arms to signify their Welsh descent. |
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Thereafter the island was under control of the English crown and its Lordship a royal appointment. |
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Their royal houses were effectively destroyed in the fighting, and their Angle populations came under the Danelaw. |
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They do not usually depend on the rank of the guilty party, although there are some exceptions associated with royal privilege. |
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Some of the marriage attempts of the 6th century AD were deliberately planned for the sake of royal succession. |
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For most purposes this was Westminster, although the royal treasury, having been moved from Winchester, came to rest in the Tower. |
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Lese majesty used to be a high crime, for which royal or imperial courts often put offenders to death. |
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Important national and royal ceremonies are shared between St Paul's and Westminster Abbey. |
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The Crown remained the most important element of government, despite the many royal minorities. |
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Sheriffs, originally appointed by the King as royal administrators and tax collectors, developed legal functions. |
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With royal and lay patronage, a clearer parochial structure based around local churches was developed. |
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There were various attempts to create royal naval forces in the 15th century. |
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Although I was a member of the royal household, I was not among the privileged few who were trained for rule. |
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As a result, analogies between royal, paternal, and husbandly authority were frequently drawn. |
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In the kingdom of Northumbria, these two traditions coexisted, and each had been encouraged by different royal houses. |
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While one royal faction was celebrating Easter, the other would still be fasting during Lent. |
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King Oswiu presided over the synod and acted as the final judge, who would give his royal authority in support of one side or the other. |
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A genealogy of the Essex royal house was prepared in Wessex in the 9th century. |
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It is, however, also possible that the occupant was not royal, but simply a wealthy and powerful individual whose identity has gone unrecorded. |
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There had been a Kentish royal hall and reeve in Lundenwic until at least the 680s, but the city then passed into Mercian hands. |
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The unbinding of the Chrisom took place with great ceremony eight days later at the royal estate at Wedmore. |
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Other burhs were sited near fortified royal villas, allowing the king better control over his strongholds. |
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The royal graves and many others were probably rediscovered by chance in 1788 when a prison was being constructed by convicts on the site. |
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He needed a royal marriage for his son to establish his legitimacy, but no suitable Carolingian princesses were available. |
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During Danish rule, Norway kept its separate laws, coinage and army, as well as some institutions such as a royal chancellor. |
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One of his descendants, Margaret of Denmark, married James III of Scotland in 1469, introducing Sweyn's bloodline into the Scottish royal house. |
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Genetic problems caused by incest are thought to have plagued many royal families in the Middle Ages. |
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By the end of William's reign most of the officials of government and the royal household were Normans. |
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The forest laws were introduced, leading to the setting aside of large sections of England as royal forest. |
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Each shire was administered by a royal official called a sheriff, who roughly had the same status as a Norman viscount. |
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These constrained royal power in return for financial and military support. |
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The design would be altered in later generations to form the royal seal of England. |
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The royal court was gathered in April 1155, where the barons swore fealty to the King and his sons. |
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The king's income had declined seriously and royal control over the mints remained limited. |
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Efforts were made to restore the system of royal justice and the royal finances. |
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Henry also invested heavily in the construction and renovation of prestigious new royal buildings. |
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By the 1180s this new class of royal administrators was predominant in England, supported by various illegitimate members of Henry's family. |
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Henry's wealth allowed him to maintain what was probably the largest curia regis, or royal court, in Europe. |
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In 1163 Henry returned to England, intent on reforming the role of the royal courts. |
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The House of Lancaster was the name of two cadet branches of the royal House of Plantagenet. |
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Henry set about extending royal justice in England to reassert his authority and spent time in Normandy shoring up support amongst the barons. |
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Ducal authority was the strongest on the frontier near the Capetian royal demesne. |
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This was due in part to The Anarchy and Stephen's loose rule resulting in the reduction of royal authority. |
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Richard also recognised Auvergne as being in Philip's royal demense and not as part of the Duchy of Aquitaine, as Henry had claimed. |
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Whereas he had so far been unpredictable and equivocating, from this point on he remained firmly devoted to protecting his father's royal rights. |
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Unwisely, however, he followed the scattered enemy in pursuit, and on his return found the rest of the royal army defeated. |
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Montfort stood little chance against the superior royal forces, and after his defeat he was killed and mutilated on the field. |
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In Edward's absence, the country was governed by a royal council, led by Robert Burnell. |
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These included the castles of Beaumaris, Caernarfon, Conwy and Harlech, intended to act both as fortresses and royal palaces for the King. |
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Another controversial issue was the king's exclusive patronage of a small group of royal favourites. |
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Finding the affairs of the realm in disorder, he purged the royal administration of a great number of ministers and judges. |
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Stratford claimed that Edward had violated the laws of the land by arresting royal officers. |
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Then, from 1336 onwards, a series of schemes aimed at increasing royal revenues from wool export were introduced. |
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He felt himself bound by no special duty, either to maintain the theory of royal supremacy or to follow a policy which would benefit his people. |
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John's death had defused some of the rebel concerns, and the royal castles were still holding out in the occupied parts of the country. |
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Henry placed a symbolic emphasis on rebuilding royal authority, but his rule was relatively circumscribed by Magna Carta. |
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When English colonists left for the New World, they brought royal charters that established the colonies. |
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They were sealed with the royal great seal by an official called the spigurnel, equipped with a special seal press, using beeswax and resin. |
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Under them were royal officials such as sheriffs, coroners, and bailiffs to collect taxes and administer justice. |
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On 7 February 1301, the king granted to Edward all the lands under royal control in Wales, mainly the territory of the former Principality. |
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The rivalry of the French royal house with the Habsburgs dominated the rest of the sixteenth century. |
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In practical terms, a judgment in Guyenne might be subject to an appeal to the French royal court. |
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The mental illness of Charles VI of France allowed his power to be exercised by royal princes whose rivalries caused deep divisions in France. |
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The House of York was a cadet branch of the English royal House of Plantagenet. |
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Lancastrian cognatic descent from John of Gaunt and Blanche's daughter Phillipa continued in the royal houses of Spain and Portugal. |
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After the rebellion the rebels' grievances formed the basis of Richard of York's opposition of a royal government from which he felt excluded. |
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In the autumn of that year, Henry went on royal progress in the Midlands, where the king and queen were popular. |
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By then, the new Duke of Somerset was emerging as a favourite of the royal court. |
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Warwick travelled to Ireland to concert plans with York, evading the royal ships commanded by the Duke of Exeter. |
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Many of Queen Elizabeth's relatives were married into noble families and others were granted peerages or royal offices. |
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Simnel was pardoned for his part in the rebellion and was sent to work in the royal kitchens. |
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The House of Tudor was a royal house of Welsh and English origin, descended in the male line from the Tudors of Penmynydd. |
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The first monarch, Henry VII, descended through his mother from a legitimised branch of the English royal House of Lancaster. |
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Henry's principal problem was to restore royal authority in a realm recovering from the Wars of the Roses. |
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Serious disputes involving the use of personal power, or threats to royal authority, were thus dealt with. |
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The proclamation of Edward IV's children as illegitimate was also reversed, restoring Elizabeth's status to a royal princess. |
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Besides asserting the sovereign's supremacy over the Church of England, he greatly expanded royal power during his reign. |
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The royal couple enjoyed periods of calm and affection, but Anne refused to play the submissive role expected of her. |
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For most observers, this personal loss was the beginning of the end of the royal marriage. |
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The crown could also rely on the exclusive use of those functions that constituted the royal prerogative. |
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Whereas the royal supremacy had raised few eyebrows, the attack on abbeys and priories affected lay people. |
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She was given her own court based at Ludlow Castle and many of the royal prerogatives normally reserved for the Prince of Wales. |
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She granted a royal charter to the Muscovy Company, whose first governor was Sebastian Cabot, and commissioned a world atlas from Diogo Homem. |
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Elizabeth was declared illegitimate and deprived of her place in the royal succession. |
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However, Thomas Seymour continued scheming to control the royal family and tried to have himself appointed the governor of the King's person. |
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With the bankruptcy of the London Company in 1624, the settlement was taken into royal authority as an English crown colony. |
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It also aroused the hostility of both the United States and Austria, which had lost a member of its royal family. |
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It was also the end of the period when England was a separate realm before its royal union with Scotland. |
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He pushed through the Black Acts to assert royal authority over the Kirk, and denounced the writings of his former tutor Buchanan. |
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The Tudor rose dimidiated with the Scottish thistle, James used this device as a royal heraldic badge. |
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Despite royal patronage and encouragement, there was never any overt mandate to use the new translation. |
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Charles, meanwhile, decided to send an expeditionary force to relieve the French Huguenots whom French royal troops held besieged in La Rochelle. |
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In February 1638, the Scots formulated their objections to royal policy in the National Covenant. |
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After the debacle at Hull, Charles moved on to Nottingham, where on 22 August 1642, he raised the royal standard. |
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In the meantime both Parliament and the King agreed to an independent investigation of royal involvement in Strafford's plot. |
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The king rejected the Grand Remonstrance and refused to give royal assent to the Militia Ordinance. |
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After his succession, Charles quarrelled with the Parliament of England, which sought to curb his royal prerogative. |
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Instead, the Commons passed the bill as an ordinance, which they claimed did not require royal assent. |
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The king's son, Charles II, later planned for an elaborate royal mausoleum to be erected in Hyde Park, London, but it was never built. |
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As Duke of York, Charles bore the royal arms of the kingdom differenced by a label Argent of three points, each bearing three torteaux Gules. |
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Since then I have learned there is no royal road to artistdom. |
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The original street plan of Liverpool is said to have been designed by King John near the same time it was granted a royal charter, making it a borough. |
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Although he further augmented his royal treasury through the seizure of church lands, Henry's heavy spending and long periods of mismanagement damaged the economy. |
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Much of this wealth was spent by Henry on maintaining his court and household, including many of the building works he undertook on royal palaces. |
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All this royal pomp and circs and magnificence and significance and sacred music and you are, quite rightly, your unaffected modern English selves. |
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The royal charities on Maunday Thursday, are really a portion of an otherwise lapsed custom, which recalled the action of our Lord on the day before His Crucifixion. |
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Several members of the group attained notoriety in 1910 with the Dreadnought hoax, which Virginia participated in disguised as a male Abyssinian royal. |
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Will the sinner knowingly spurn exomologesis, which has been instituted by God for his restoration? that exomologesis which restored the king of Babylon to his royal throne? |
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In 1542, following the execution of Henry's fifth wife, Catherine Howard, the unmarried Henry invited Mary to attend the royal Christmas festivities. |
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From the foursquare royal tower on the city's eastern edge to the Dominican monastery of the Blackfriars in the west, its skyline was a forest of spires and belltowers. |
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The layout of traditional Balinese and Javanese kratons is similar to the Chinese concept of walled compounds of royal pavilions, squares and gardens. |
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He set about converting the royal forest into agricultural land. |
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The royal favourite, whose husband had been called to the Upper House as Baron Masham, deserted her old friend and relation for his more vivacious rival. |
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In 1580, this gave King Philip the opportunity to strengthen his position when the last member of the Portuguese royal family, Cardinal Henry of Portugal, died. |
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During the royal hunt, the Shang killed wild beasts with reckless abandon, and consumed hecatombs of domestic animals at a bin banquet or a funeral. |
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Raleigh was instrumental in the English colonisation of North America and was granted a royal patent to explore Virginia, which paved the way for future English settlements. |
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Later, subsequent royal charters modified the Colony's boundaries. |
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The title of city was initially informal and, into the 20th century, royal charters were considered to recognize city status rather than to grant it. |
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After the House of Burgesses was dissolved by the royal governor in 1774, Virginia's revolutionary leaders continued to govern via the Virginia Conventions. |
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The royal burghs of Edinburgh and Perth anciently used the title civitas, but the term city does not seem to have been used before the 15th century. |
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However, the first common law scholars, most notably Glanvill and Bracton, as well as the early royal common law judges, had been well accustomed with Roman law. |
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The crown was added to make the badge a specifically royal symbol. |
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In 1856, the burgh of Dunfermline resolved to use the title of city in all official documents in the future, based on long usage and its former status as a royal capital. |
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The oldest of the elves' royal family still conversed in High Elvish. |
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City status in Ireland tended historically to be granted by royal charter. |
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Marble Arch and Wellington Arch, at the north and south ends of Park Lane, respectively, have royal connections, as do the Albert Memorial and Royal Albert Hall in Kensington. |
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