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Cadet houses

Gentry families established by younger sons.

Cadets

Younger sons of gentry families.

Cadwaladr

Regarded as the last King of the Britons.

Calvinistic Methodist

See Methodism.

Camden, William

An 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, Henry

Liberal MP from 1868. Prime Minister 1905–8. Gave self-government to the colonies in South Africa.

Campbell, Malcolm

On 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/cantred

An administrative division in medieval Wales based on a notional ‘hundred townships’.

Captain Swing

Also 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.

Caput

Head or top — chief castle of a lordship.

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