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.[...]
census
n. a ten-yearly enumeration of the population based on the actual presence of individuals in a house or institution on a designated night (known as a de facto census). This contrasts with the ...
John Vanbrugh
(1664–1726) English playwright and architect.After a varied career, eventually as a renowned playwright (The Relapse 1696; The Provok’d Wife 1697), Vanbrugh’s ambitions took a sudden and unexplained ...
Sir William Petty
(1623–76),published economic treatises, the principal of which was entitled Political Arithmetic (1690), a term signifying that which we now call statistics. In this he examined, by the quantitative ...
town halls
The prototype of the town hall was the Roman basilica. This was adopted by the independent Italian cities of the Middle Ages, though with one important difference: it was mounted ...
Tudor architecture
The Tudor monarchy (1485–1603) is not associated with architecture in the same way as Georgian or Queen Anne, though there is notable work at the beginning (see perpendicular) and the end (see ...
William Prynne
(1600–69)English Puritan pamphleteer, a fearless campaigner on religious, moral, and political issues. His most famous pamphlet, Histrio Mastix (1632), was an attack on stage-plays; he was tried ...
