Wales glossary
Wales glossary
Sunday, 28 April 2024, 2:34 PM
Site: Open Learning
Course: Welsh history and its sources (CYMRU_1)
Glossary: Wales glossary
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BurgessA person with rights and property within a borough. |
Burke, Edmund(1729–97) Irish politician and philosopher, author of Reflections on the French Revolution. |
BurnA stream or river. |
BushelA measure of capacity of eight gallons. |
Bute (family, of Cardiff)Nineteenth/twentieth-century dynasty of landowners/industrialists – built Cardiff docks and Cardiff Castle. |
Butty systemBy this system jobs in a coal mine were sub-contracted by the colliery under-manager to the butty who was then responsible for employing the men. |
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Cadet housesGentry families established by younger sons. |
CadetsYounger sons of gentry families. |
CadwaladrRegarded as the last King of the Britons. |
Calvinistic MethodistSee Methodism. |