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Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom born 1926...
Poor laws
Poor laws. By the (English) Poor Relief Act, 1601, (43 Eliz. c. 2), frequently called 'The Act of Elizabeth,' overseers of the poor were annually appointed in every parish; the churchwardens of every parish being also ex-officio overseers, except in rural parishes, in which the churchwardens ceased to be overseers by virtue of the Local Government Act, 1894.Overseers of the Poor and Boards of Guardians were abolished (overseers from 1st April, 1927, boards of guardians from 1st April, 1930, except in the Scilly Islands) by the Rating and Valuation Act, 1925, and their powers, duties and property were transferred to local authorities.By the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834, the administration of the parochial funds and the management of the poor throughout the country were placed for five years under the control of a central board called 'The Poor Law Commissioners'; succeeded in 1847 by a temporary 'Poor Law Board' made perpetual, after many continuances, in 1867; and in 1871, by 'The (Eng...
Elizabethan
Pertaining to Queen Elizabeth I or her times esp to the architecture or literature of her reign as the Elizabethan writers drama literature...
Euphuist
One who affects excessive refinement and elegance of language applied esp to a class of writers in the age of Elizabeth whose productions are marked by affected conceits and high flown diction...
Ladykin
A little lady applied by the writers of Queen Elizabeths time in the abbreviated form Lakin to the Virgin Mary...
Lovelock
A long lock of hair hanging prominently by itself an earlock worn by men of fashion in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I...
Paspy
A kind of minuet in triple time of French origin popular in the reign of Queen Elizabeth and for some time after called also passing measure and passymeasure...
Puritan
One who in the time of Queen Elizabeth and the first two Stuarts opposed traditional and formal usages and advocated simpler forms of faith and worship than those established by law originally a term of reproach The Puritans formed the bulk of the early population of New England...
Act of Parliament
Act of Parliament, a law made by the sovereign, with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the Commons, in Parliament assembled (1 Bl. Com. 85); but, in the case of an Act passed under the provisions of the (English) Parliament Act, 1911, a law made by the sovereign 'by and with the advice and consent of the Commons in this present Parliament assembled in accordance with the provisions of the Parliament Act, 1911, and by authority of the same'; also called a 'statute.'Means a bill passed by two Houses of Parliament and assented to by the President and in the absence of an express provision to the contrary, operative from the date of notification in the Gazette, Handbook for Members of Rajya Sabha, April, 2002.Means an action; a thing done or established; a written law formally passed by the legislative power of a State; a Bill enacted by the legislature into a law, as distinguished from a bill which is in the form of draft of a law or legislative proposal pres...
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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