Dictionary of Historical Allusions: A Guide to Names, Nicknames, Sobriquets, and Similar Appellations for Alliances, Canons, Codes, Compromises, Con - Couverture rigide

Harbottle, Thomas Benfield

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1558888993 ISBN 13 : 9781558888999

Editeur : Omnigraphics Inc, 1990

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Book by Harbottle Thomas Benfield

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A bbeville, Treaty of. A treaty between the English Barons and Louis IX of France, signed in 1259, shortly after the establishment in England of the Council of Fifteen. By its provisions England retained Bordeaux, Bayonne, and Gascony, and surrendered all claim to Normandy, A njou, Poitou, and Maine. The French king agreed to supply a sum of money sufficient to maintain for two years five hundred knights, to be employed for the benefit of England or of the Church. A becedarians. A branch of the A nabaptists, founded in Germany in the sixteenth century by Stork, a disciple of Luther. They held that all human knowledge was valueless, and therefore declined to learn even the alphabet. A bencerrages. A noble Moorish family of Granada, in the fifteenth century. They were accused by a rival family, the Zegris, of plotting against A bdallah, King of Granada, and were lured into the A lhambra, where they were barbarously massacred. Thirtysix members of the family perished. A bhorrers. A nother name for the Tories in the reign of Charles II. They were so called from their use of the word in their addresses to the king, protesting against the petitions in favour of summoning a; Parliament in 1679. Abingdon Law. Execution first and trial afterwards. The phrase is derived from the methods adopted by Major-G eneral Brown, of the Commonwealth A rmy, at A bing don, during the Civil War. It was his habit, it is said, to deal in this fashion with Malignants who fell into his hands. A bjuration, A ct of (E ngland). An A ct passed in 1702, imposing upon all who took office under the State, an oath abjuring the House of Stuart, and binding them to support each successor to the throne named in the A ct of Settlement. A bjuration, A ct of (N etherlands). The declaration of independence made at The Hague in 1581 by the deputies of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, deposing
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• Éditeur: Omnigraphics Inc
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1558888993
• ISBN 13: 9781558888999
• Reliure: Relié
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