Wales glossary
Wales glossary
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 2:57 AM
Site: Open Learning
Course: Welsh history and its sources (CYMRU_1)
Glossary: Wales glossary
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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. |
Camden, WilliamAn outstanding antiquary whose Britannia is an excellent description of the places he visited and is an invaluable source for the early modern historian. |
Campbell-Bannerman, HenryLiberal MP from 1868. Prime Minister 1905–8. Gave self-government to the colonies in South Africa. |
Campbell, MalcolmOn Pendine Sands near Carmarthen, he set a new world land-speed record on 25 September 1924 by reaching 146m.p.h. in his Sunbeam car, ‘Bluebird’. |
Cantref/cantredAn administrative division in medieval Wales based on a notional ‘hundred townships’. |
Captain SwingAlso referred to as the ‘Swing Riots’. These were rick–burning episodes in southern England, from Kent to Dorset, in 1830. They took place at night against a background of increasing agrarian and industrial unrest in grim economic conditions. Suppressed by Home Secretary, Lord Melbourne, with great harshness. Nine were hanged and 1,000 transported. |
CaputHead or top — chief castle of a lordship. |