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Welsh history and its sources
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Wales glossary

Wales glossary

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B

Burgess

A person with rights and property within a borough.

Burke, Edmund

(1729–97) Irish politician and philosopher, author of Reflections on the French Revolution.

Burn

A stream or river.


Bushel

A measure of capacity of eight gallons.

Bute (family, of Cardiff)

Nineteenth/twentieth-century dynasty of landowners/industrialists  built Cardiff docks and Cardiff Castle.

Butty system

By this system jobs in a coal mine were sub-contracted by the colliery under-manager to the butty who was then responsible for employing the men.

C

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



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