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Canterbury, Archbishop of
Canterbury, Archbishop of, the Primate of All England: the Chief Ecclesiastical Dignitary in the Church; his customary privilege is to crown the kings and queens of England; he is an ex-officio trustee of the British Museum....
Cameronians
Cameronians, an extreme sect of the Presbyterian party in Scotland. They disowned altogether the King's authority and that of the Government, and renounced the title of all pretenders to the throne who would not subscribe to...
Cachet, letters de
Cachet, letters de, letters issued and signed by the kings of France, and counter-signed by a secretary of state, authorizing the imprisonment of a person, usually in the Bastille. Abolished during the revolution of 1789.
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Broad-arrow
Broad-arrow, use as a Government mark, is thought to have had a Celtic origin; and the so-called arrow may be the ' or ', the broad a of the Druids. This letter was typical of superiority...
Bench
Bench [fr. bance, A. S.], or Banc [Fr.], a tribunal of justice. (1) The judge or the aggregate body of the judges of any given Court; (2) the bishops; (3) the benchers of an Inn of...
British ship
British ship, As to the qualification for owning and the obligation to register British ships, see Merchant Shipping Act,1894, ss. 1-3. The owner must be a British subject, natural born or naturalized, or a denizen q.v.,...
Breve perquirere
Breve perquirere, to purchase a writ or license of trial, in the king's courts, by the plaintiff, qui breve perquisivit; whence the usage of paying 6s. 8d. fine to the Crown where the debt is 40l.,...
Brawling
Brawling [fr. brailler, Fr., to brawl], the offence of quarrelling, or creating a disturbance in the church or churchyard, punished by 5 & 6 Edw. 4, c. 4 [partly repealed by 9 Geo. 4, c. 31,...
Bouche of court or budge of court
Bouche of court or budge of court, a certain allowance of provision from the king to his knights and servants who attended him on any military expedition.
Board of Green Cloth
Board of Green Cloth. See COUNTING HOUSE OF THE KING'S HOUSEHOLD.
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