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Wales glossary

Wales glossary

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Cardiff City

Cardiff City football club has reached the FA Cup Final three times: in 1925 they lost 1:0 to Sheffield United; in 1927 they beat Arsenal 1:0, becoming the first club to take the FA Cup out of England; and in 2008 they lost 1:0 to Portsmouth.

Cardis

People who came from the former county of Cardiganshire.

Carucate

A unit of land, usually 120 acres.

Catechism

A set of questions and answers on the principal points of the Christian faith, printed as part of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, with many later versions by Dissenters and others.

Catholics

Term exclusively used in the eighteenth century of the adherents of the Roman Catholic church; otherwise referred to as papists.

Ceffyl pren

Welsh: 'wooden horse'. A means by which the community imposed its moral code — effigies of offenders (for example, adulterers) were placed on a ladder and paraded around the streets. Particularly prevalent in south–west Wales.


Ceisiad

A community police officer, the sergeant of the peace, as opposed to the rhingyll, who was an officer of the court.

Census

The UK census is an enumeration of the population conducted every ten years since 1801. The first four censuses involved only a count of the number of people residing in each household; but from 1841 onwards the amount of detail required has increased, to include age, gender, marital status, occupation, place of origin, etc. Censuses are therefore useful sources of historical information, but because of the personal data involved cannot be consulted for 100 years. The most recent census available for public examination is therefore that of 1901.

Central Welsh Board

Representative body of the Welsh local authorities to inspect and examine intermediate secondary schools in Wales.

Chamberlain, Joseph

Radical Liberal MP from 1876. Led the Liberal Unionist alliance with the Conservatives in opposition to Irish Home Rule. Colonial Secretary 18951903 at the time of the Boer War.


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