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Oil seeds
panmohuri, methi and postak are 'oilseeds' is correct. The Condensed Chemical Dictionary (7th Edition) edited by Arthur and Elizabeth Rose, from which the following informations regarding the seeds in question were available: Dhania (coriander seed); botanical name
Navigation acts
stat. 1, c. 3) had been passed in the reigns of Richard the Second, Henry the Seventh, and Elizabeth. All the Navigation Acts were repealed in 1849. See Pulling's Shipping Code.
Monopoly
before. Such grants were common before the Stuarts, and were very oppressive and injurious during the reign of Elizabeth. The grievance became so insupportable that, notwithstanding the power of granting monopolies was a valuable part of the
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Lollardy
of Wycliffe) as far back as the reign of Edward III. the Lollards closely resembled the Puritans of Elizabeth's reign, Stow's Annals, 425
Lord Lieutenant of a County
though they had not been long in use; for Camden speaks of them in the time of Queen Elizabeth as extraordinary magistrates, constituted only in times of difficulty and danger. They are generally of the principal nobility,
House of correction
crimes of cesser magnitude, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn. Houses of Correction, fist established in the reign of Elizabeth, were originally designed for the penal confinement (after conviction) of paupers and vagrants refusing to work; but by
False Verdict
no instance of one to be found in our books of reports later than in the time of Elizabeth, and it was altogether abolished by the (English) County Juries Act, 1825 (6 Geo. 4, c. 50), s.
Eastland company
Eastland company, a company which subsisted under a charter granted by Queen Elizabeth in 1579 for regulating the commerce to the ports of the Baltic. The trade was subsequently thrown open
Coke, Sir Edward
counsel in Shelley's case (see that title), Speaker of the House of Commons, Solicitor-General and Attorney-General under Queen Elizabeth, knighted by James I. shortly after his accession in 1603, made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in
Archaionomia
Archaionomia, a collection of Saxon laws, published during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, in the Saxon language, with a Latin version by Lambard.
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