Wales glossary
Wales glossary
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Coursing MatchRelates to the ‘sport’ of hare coursing. | |
Court of Star ChamberThe most important court in England and Wales. Roughly, the Privy Council sitting as a court. | |
Courts of Great SessionsCourts of law established by the Act of Union, First (1536); gave twelve of the Welsh counties a distinctive system of justice. | |
CrecyBattle in 1346 between Edward III and Philip VI of France during the Hundred Years’ War. A victory for Edward. | |
CricciethTown in north Wales, home of Lloyd George. | |
Croes NaidThe most cherished relic of independent Wales, the piece of the True Cross removed by Edward I after conquest. | |
CromlechsPrehistoric stone monuments (now termed megaliths), in the eighteenth century believed to have been built by the Druids. | |
Cromwell, Oliver(1599–1658) General of the New Model Army in the Civil War and subsequently Lord Protector of England. | |
Cromwell, ThomasHenry VIII’s second great chief minister. The first was Thomas Wolsey. | |
Crown bond townshipsSee Bond hamlets. | |