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

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

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.

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

Radical Liberal MP from 1876. Led the Liberal Unionist alliance with the Conservatives in opposition to Irish Home Rule. Colonial Secretary 1895–1903 at the time of the Boer War.

An issuing house and repository for government legal documents.

An important court which developed in England in the fifteenth century. It could make law. It dealt with land ownership and contract cases.

Small chapels, set up from medieval times by individual endowments, mainly for the purpose of saying Mass for the dead.

The canons of a cathedral acting as a management committee.