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The Vice Admiralty Court was a prerogative court established in the early 16th. A vice-admiralty court is in effect an admiralty court. The word “vice” in the name of the court denoted that the court represented the Lord Admiral of the United Kingdom. In English legal theory, the Lord Admiral, as vice-regal of the monarch, was the only ...
Samuel Nedivot prints the 14th-century Hebrew Sefer Abudirham in Fez, the first book printed in Africa. [3] Paolo Ricci translates the 13th-century Kabbalistic work Sha'are Orah by Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla as Portae Lucis. 1519 Apokopos by Bergadis, the first book in Modern Greek, is printed in Venice.
Early modern Britain is the history of the island of Great Britain roughly corresponding to the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Major historical events in early modern British history include numerous wars, especially with France, along with the English Renaissance, the English Reformation and Scottish Reformation, the English Civil War, the Restoration of Charles II, the Glorious Revolution ...
The Admiralty was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom [1] [2] responsible for the command of the Royal Navy until 1964, historically under its titular head, the Lord High Admiral – one of the Great Officers of State.
Peers of England created by Henry VIII (1 C, 21 P) Pages in category "16th-century English nobility" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 489 total.
15th c. ← England in the 16th century → 17th c. ... 16th-century literature of England (2 C, 2 P) 16th century in London (2 C, 21 P) M.
As the size of the fleet grew, the Admiralty sought to focus the activity of the Navy Board on two areas: ships and their maintenance, and naval expenditure. Therefore, from the mid-to-late 17th century, a number of subsidiary boards were established to oversee other aspects of the board's work. [10] These included: The Victualling Board (1683 ...
16th-century English writers (6 C, 382 P) Pages in category "16th-century literature of England" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.