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Hace 3 días · Financing the increasingly expensive and unsuccessful war with France was a major preoccupation. At the end of Edward III’s reign a new device, a poll tax of four pence a head, had been. ... when complaints were put forward in Parliament and their author, Thomas Haxey, was adjudged a traitor. Richard’s rule, based on fear rather than ...
Hace 2 días · The Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922 was fought between Greece and the Turkish National Movement during the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of World War I, between 15 May 1919 and 14 October 1922.. The Greek campaign was launched primarily because the western Allies, particularly British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, had promised Greece territorial gains at the expense ...
Hace 4 días · The nomination of Aldermen Sir T. Atkyn and Milner, Thomas Whaplett (Vintner) and John Sweeting (Pewterer) had been rejected by the Court, September 15 (Rep. 66, fo. 307 b). Sworn and discharged September 27; fine of £420 (Rep. 66, fo. 312 b ).
Hace 2 días · Baronets. Musgrave of Edenhall, 1611. — The Musgraves are descended from the ancient baronial family of Musgrave in Westmorland. Sir Thomas Musgrave, who died in 1469 or 1470, married the elder daughter and coheir of Stapleton of Edenhall. His descendant, Sir Richard, who had been made Knight of the Bath at the coronation of King James, was ...
Hace 2 días · VIII, 363. 1349 On Monday after St. Hilary the Bishop, 1349, Thomas de Langeker of Mansergh released to John de Lente his right in the land in the hamlet of Mansergh in the vill of Berburn, which formerly belonged to John de Mansergh, the younger, by the gift and feoffment of the said John de Leute; Anct.
Hace 4 días · Stephen Thomas Ward (19 October 1912 – 3 August 1963) was an English osteopath and artist who was one of the central figures in the 1963 Profumo affair, a British political scandal which brought about the resignation of John Profumo, the Secretary of State for War, and contributed to the defeat of the Conservative government a year later.. In 1945 Ward began practising osteopathy in London ...
Hace 3 días · Meggie was obviously a very important character, but Ward received a lot of criticism for her portrayal. "I felt terribly like I’d disappointed [everyone]," she said. "I felt that despite me it was a success." But decades later, her daughter saw the series and said she was "fabulous." "That was, for me, the most important response that I ...
