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Abiezer Coppe
(1619–72),a Ranter, preacher, mystic, and pamphleteer, famed for his eccentric behaviour (he preached naked in the streets of London, denouncing the rich); his two Fiery Flying Rolls (1649) are ...
Act of Settlement
(1662),passed by the Irish parliament as part of the Restoration land settlement. Dispossessed proprietors judged by a court of claims to have been innocent of rebellion were to be ...
Acts of Uniformity
A series of English laws intended to secure the legal and doctrinal basis of the Anglican Communion. The first (1549) made the Book of Common Prayer compulsory in church services, with severe ...
alehouses
The licensing system began in 1495, but most licences were issued after the passing of another Act in 1552. Amongst the records of quarter sessions are those of special sittings ...
Algernon Sidney
(1622–83),the grandnephew of Sir P. Sidney, took up arms against Charles I and was wounded at Marston Moor. He was employed on government service until the Restoration, but his firm republicanism ...
Andrew Fletcher
(1655–1716).Politician. Fletcher of Saltoun was taught by Gilbert Burnet, who later described him as ‘a most violent republican and extremely passionate’. He represented East Lothian at the ...
Andrew Marvell
(1621–1678) English poetThe First Anniversary of the Government Under the Lord Protector (1655) PoetryThe Character of Holland (1665) PoetryThe Rehearsal Transpros'd [part i; part ii, 1673] (1672) ...
Anne Bracegirdle
(?1673/4–1748),a famous actress, the friend of Congreve, to the success of whose comedies on stage she largely contributed. She was finally eclipsed by Mrs Oldfield in 1707 and retired from the stage.
anniversaries
It was early in the 3rd c. that the Christians seem to have got into the habit of commemorating the dead on the anniversary of their decease, at first designated ...
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury
(1621–83)English statesman. He entered Parliament in 1640 as a royalist supporter, but changed sides in 1643, eventually becoming a member of Cromwell's council of state. In 1660 he was one of the ...
architectural styles and features
With the reign of King David I (1124–53), Scotland became a part of the western European polity of feudalism. Its most visible symbol was the castle, which was introduced by ...
army records
See the Public Record Office Records Information leaflet no. 59, ‘British Army Records as Sources for Biography and Genealogy’.Personal information about officers should be first sought in the ...
baptists
A person who practises baptism; The Baptist is the epithet of St John of Chancery.A Baptist is a member of a Protestant Christian denomination advocating baptism only of adult believers by total ...
Bellew
A leading Old English family. John Bellew (d. 1693) was restored to the family lands in Cos. Louth and Meath at the Restoration and created Baron Bellew of Duleek in ...
Benjamin Whichcote
(1609–83)English liberal theologian. Whichcote was the senior of the Cambridge Platonists, and through his position as Provost of King's was an influential opponent of the Calvinism of his time. He ...
bishop's transcript
A bishop's transcript is a copy, usually in the hand of a parish clerk, of one year's entries in a parish register that the vicar or other incumbent was obliged ...
Book of Common Prayer
(often BCP).The major prayer book of the Anglican Church, and official service book of the Church of England. Its centrality and continuing use is advocated by the Prayer Book Society.[...]
Book of Kells
An 8th‐ to 9th‐cent. manuscript of the four Gospels, with prefaces, summaries and canon tables; seven charters of the abbey of Kells have been added on blank pages. It is written in Irish majuscule ...
books of Survey and Distribution
Manuscript volumes summarizing the Cromwellian land settlement and its modification at the Restoration. Laid out by county, barony, parish, and townland, they show the ownership of land in 1641, as ...
borough
The word ‘borough’ (‘burgh’ in Scotland) has caused endless confusion. The Old English (Anglo‐Saxon) terms burg, burh, and byrig were used originally for fortified places. By 1086, however, Domesday ...
