Accession Service
The form of prayer for use on the anniversary of the accession of the reigning British sovereign, printed at the end of the BCP.
Act of Uniformity Amendment Act 1872
More generally known as the ‘Shortened Services Act’, this Act, passed by Parliament after its approval by the Convocations of Canterbury and York, provided for the optional use of shortened ...
Alcuin
(c. 735–804)English scholar and theologian. In 782 was employed by Emperor Charlemagne as head of his palace school at Aachen, where his pupils included many of the outstanding figures in the ...
Alexander II
(1198–1249)King of Scotland (1214–49). He succeeded William the Lion. After supporting the English barons in the first Barons' War against King John he had to suppress revolts in Moray (1221), Argyll ...
Alternative Services
The Prayer Book (Alternative and Other) Services Measure 1965 provided that for a limited period the services of the C of E might follow forms sanctioned by the Church Assembly (later by the General ...
Anglican Ordinations
Until the subject was removed from public discussion in the RC Church by Leo XIII's bull ‘Apostolicae Curae’ (1896), there was diversity of opinion in that Church about the validity of Anglican ...
Anglo-Latin literature to 1847
From the 7th to the mid‐19th cents, thousands of English writers produced Latin writings in great quantity, both in prose and in verse, addressed to a Latin‐reading public in continental Europe and ...
Anglo-Saxon Church
The Church in England from the end of the 6th cent. to the Norman Conquest (1066). In 597 the Roman mission of St Augustine landed in Thanet in the south and sees were quickly set up at Canterbury, ...
annals and chronicles: England (3)—Anonimalle
So named (obsolete for ‘anonymous’) by 16th-century historians. A 14th-century AN chronicle from St Mary’s abbey, York, with well-informed accounts of the *‘Good Parliament’ (1376) and the Peasants’ ...
Anne Brontë
(1820–1849) British novelist and poetAgnes Grey (1847) FictionThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) FictionAgnes Grey (1847) FictionThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) Fiction
archbishop
Are, literally, chief bishops. By the 5th cent. ad the title was applied to the occupants of sees of major ecclesiastical importance, particularly those of metropolitan bishops. This designation ...
Archbishops' Council
A body set up by the National Institutions Measure 1998 to focus the leadership and co-ordinate the central structures of the C of E. It brings together a number of functions previously performed by ...
Archibald Campbell Tait
(1811–82), Abp. of Canterbury from 1868. At Oxford in 1841 he was one of the four tutors who protested against Tract 90 (see Tractarianism), and as Bp. of London (1856–68) he withdrew the licence of ...
battle of Blore Heath
1459.*Warwick's father, the earl of Salisbury, supported the duke of York in 1459 when he rebelled against Henry VI. He marched from Yorkshire to join York, who was in Wales, near Ludlow. Royalist ...
battle of Fulford
1066.Eight months after Harold Godwineson's succession in January 1066, Harold Hardrada, king of Norway, launched a major attack, in conjunction with Tostig, Harold's brother. They sailed up the Ouse ...
battle of Ludford Bridge
1459.After Salisbury's victory at Blore Heath, he marched to Ludlow to join his allies Warwick and York. Confronted by a large Lancastrian force, the Yorkist leaders fled, leaving their troops to ...
battle of St Albans
1461.The second battle of St Albans took place on 17 February 1461. Queen Margaret hastened south to exploit her crushing victory at Wakefield and rescue her husband Henry VI, held captive by ...
battle of Wakefield
(30 December 1460)A battle in the Wars of the Roses fought in Yorkshire. The Lancastrians defeated and killed the Yorkist claimant to the throne, Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
Bede
(673–735,historian and scholar, when young placed in the charge of Benedict Biscop, the abbot of Wearmouth. From there he went in 682 to Jarrow, where he spent most of his life. He was a diligent ...
Bretton
In Villette, Lucy Snowe's godmother, Mrs Louisa Bretton, lives at first in a large, handsome house on St Ann's Street, a fine, quiet, thoroughfare leading towards the towers of the ...
