Wales glossary
Wales glossary
Sunday, 5 May 2024, 6:46 PM
Site: Open Learning
Course: Welsh history and its sources (CYMRU_1)
Glossary: Wales glossary
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ArmigerEsquire (literally, one who bears arms). |
ArminianismArminians are those who hold the doctrine of general redemption, in opposition to Calvinists (Methodism) who believe that only the elect will be saved. |
ArthurHenry VII’s eldest son and heir, who died before becoming King. |
Asquith, H. H.Liberal MP from 1886. Prime Minister 1908–16. Replaced by Lloyd George, causing what was eventually a disastrous split in the Liberal Party. |
Asquithian LiberalsThose members of the Liberal party who remained loyal to H.H. Asquith when he was replaced as Prime Minister by Lloyd George in 1916. |
AssizesSittings of legislative bodies and their decrees. |
Atterbury PlotJacobite plot named from Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester (1662–1732). |
Attlee, ClementLabour MP from 1922. Leader of the party 1935–55. Prime Minister in the Labour government 1945–51. |
Augustinian CanonsReligious order developed in the eleventh century; followers of ‘the rule of St Augustine’. Regular canons, as opposed to monks who lived the monastic life for its own sake, were essentially secular clergy attached to a church who chose, in addition, to live according to the monastic rule. |
AvowryPatronage and right of presentation to a benefice. |