Wales glossary
Wales glossary
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Payments in kindPayments, usually of rent, in goods or services. | |
Peaceable ArmyEstablished in Glamorgan in 1645 to resist incursions into the county by both Royalists and Parliamentarians: a neutralist movement led by local gentry. | |
Peace of AmiensPeace between Britain and France, March 1802 to May 1803. | |
Peace SocietyAs its name implies, a society dedicated to bringing influences to bear on the electorate for policies of peaceful coexistence. The secretary at one time was Richard, Henry. | |
Peel, Sir RobertPrime Minister for two terms between 1834 and 1846. Repealed the Corn Laws (see Anti-Corn Law League) in 1846, so splitting the Tory Party. | |
Penderyn, DicLewis, Richard (Dic Penderyn) (1808–1831), from Penderyn, near Hirwaun, Glamorgan. Hanged in Cardiff, 13 August 1831, following conviction for his part in the Merthyr Rising, in which he allegedly killed a soldier. | |
PenillionLiterally verses, but often a technical term applied to a contrapuntal and extempore form of singing to the harp. | |
Pennant, ColonelThe owner of one of the largest slate quarries in the world in the second half of the nineteenth century, the Penrhyn quarry. Became Lord Penrhyn in 1866. | |
Pennant, Thomas(1726–98) Naturalist and antiquary; lived at Downing, Flintshire (Clwyd). | |
Penrhyn, LordSee Pennant, Colonel. | |