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An Act for empowering the Trustees for repairing the Road from the Stone's End in Saint Leonard Shoreditch, to the furthermost Part of the Northern Road in the Parish of Enfield, in the County of Middlesex, to cause Part of the said Road to be lighted, watched, and watered; and for lighting, watching, and watering, the Parish of Saint Mary ...
The self-conscious antiquarian study of the law gathered momentum from the 15th century. It supported the theories of the ancient constitution. [4] In his Institutes of the Lawes of England Coke challenged the accepted view of the Norman Conquest by asserting it amounted to trial by battle, with William the Conqueror agreeing to maintain the Anglo-Saxon laws.
An Act for the effectual punishing of Persons convicted of seducing Artificers on the Manufactures of Great Britain or Ireland out of the Dominions of the Crown of Great Britain, and to prevent the Exportation of Utensils made Use of in the Woollen and Silk Manufactures from Great Britain or Ireland into Foreign Parts, and for the more easy and ...
Events from the year 1774 in Great Britain. Incumbents. Monarch – George III; Prime Minister – Frederick North, Lord North [1] Events. 27 ...
The Kingdom of Great Britain, officially known as Great Britain, [4] was a sovereign state in Western Europe from 1707 [5] to the end of 1800. The state was created by the 1706 Treaty of Union and ratified by the Acts of Union 1707, which united the kingdoms of England (including Wales) and Scotland to form a single kingdom encompassing the whole island of Great Britain and its outlying ...
From the late 19th century, the majority of people living in Ireland wanted the British government to grant some form of self-rule to Ireland. The Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP) sometimes held the balance of power in the House of Commons in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a position from which it sought to gain Home Rule, which would have given Ireland autonomy in internal affairs ...
An Act For further continuing the Terms and Powers granted and continued by Three Acts, passed in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Years of William the Third, [l] the Tenth of Queen Anne, [m] and in the Eleventh Year of His late Majesty George the Second, [n] for recovering, securing, and keeping in Repair, the Harbour of Minehead, in the County of ...
An act for repealing so much of an act, made in the Seventh year of the reign of his present Majesty, [m] as directs that no cambrick or lawn shall be imported from Ireland, until the importation of cambricks and French lawns into Ireland shall be prohibited by law; to allow the importation of cambricks and French lawns from the Austrian ...