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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: England (Since the Reformation)
This statute severed England from the unity of Christendom and transferred the jurisdiction of the supreme pontiff to "the Imperial Crown" of that realm.
Moreover, stricter conceptions of their duty in respect of heretical worship were gaining ground among English Catholics, partly on account of the decision of a congregation appointed by the Council of Trent, that attendance at it was "grievously sinful", inasmuch as it was "the offspring of schism, the badge of hatred of the Church".
The establishment of the society was sanctioned by the archbishops and bishops of England and by the vicars Apostolic of Scotland (the hierarchy in that country was not restored until 1878), and was emphatically approved by Pius IX.
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 Butler Coat of Arms
Of all the shield and supporters, the element which characterizes specifically the Butler family is the shield; the rest are (symbolic) adornment.
The simple explanation of the phrase "Butler a boo!" is that it is the Irish (Gaelic) term a buadh, meaning "to victory!" Buadh, pronounced 'boo-a', is the Irish word for victory (it was a warcry, not a toast to the health of the clan).
'Butler' is a Norman French word meaning 'bottler', the butler being the member of the royal household responsible for the bottles in the wine cellar.
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 CHIEF JUSTICE BUTLER
His father, Frederick Butler, was a man of literary tastes and acquirements, and the author of several books, chief among which is a "Compendium of History." His mother, Mary Belden, was a native of Wethersfield, and a woman of rare natural gifts.
His opinions upon some of the novel questions that arose during the late war, especially as to the legality of the actions of towns in various cases and as to the constitutionality of the law authorizing soldiers to vote in the field, are among the finest specimens of juridical investigation and reasoning.
Judge BUTLER was all his life a regular attendant on public worship at the Congregational Church of Norwalk, but had never, until shortly before his death, connected himself by profession with the church.
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 England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Hereafter the title was always associated with the direct heir to the throne of England and then Great Britain, and merges with the Dukedom of Cornwall, the Earldom of Carrick, the Hereditary Great Stewardship of Scotland, and the Lordship of the Isles as a subsidiary title of the Prince of Wales.
England emerges throughout the 9th century CE, as the Kingdom of Wessex became the pre-eminent Anglo-Saxon nation and, with the containment of the Scandinavian Kingdom of York by the end of the century, the only surviving English nation.
Edmund was a son of Edward I of England and half-brother to Edward II.
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 Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Butler was a prominent public figure in the early decades of the 20th century, well known for being a soldier's soldier disdainful of military bureaucrats, a highly decorated war hero, and an advocate and enforcer of Prohibition in the 1920's as Philadelphia's Director of Public Safety.
Butler's leave expires that you will try and teach him that a General should be a gentleman and a leader such as Pershing and Wood and not a common soldier.
Butler viewed particular business interests as being the prime beneficiaries, not only in the sense that the military was often sent into harm's way to serve a special interest, but also because those businesses benefitted from military spending.
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 FREER GENEALOGY RESEARCH - BUTLER FAMILY RECORDS
In the first case it was deriveed from the office of Chief Butler of lreland and honor which was conferred upon Theobald surname Le Botiler or Butler--by Henry II in 1177; and which remained hereditary in his descendants for many generations.
The golden cups in the second quarter are symbolic of thc office of the Chief Butler of Ireland whose duty was to hand to.the king the first cup of wize at banquets of State.
In the Wars of the Roses, the Butlers sides with the White Rose of l.ancaster, and the Fitzgeralds with the Red Rose of York, factions gathered round the two great houses, and the bitter feud brought forth death and bloodshed from as early as 1250 down to the Williamite wars.
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 RUSSELL (FAMILY) - LoveToKnow Article on RUSSELL (FAMILY)
Both Stephen and Henry were in the wine trade with Bordeaux, and in 1427 Henry Russell was deputy to the chief butler of England for the port of Melcombe.
In 1442 a pardon under the privy seal significantly describes Henry Russell of Weymouth, merchant, as alias Henry Gascoign, gentleman, and it is therefore probable that the ducal house of Bedford springs from a family of Gascon wine-merchants settled in a port of Dorsetshire, a county remarkable for the number of such French settlers.
William, the eldest surviving son, succeeded as fifth earl, Edward, the youngest so~i, being father of Edward Russell (1653-1727), admiral of the fleet, who, having held the chief command in the victory of La Hogue, was created in 1697 earl of Orford.
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 Reason: Gun Control’s Twisted Outcome   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
A hundred years and many gun laws later, the BBC reported that England’s firearms restrictions "seem to have had little impact in the criminal underworld." Guns are virtually outlawed, and, as the old slogan predicted, only outlaws have guns.
England’s rates of assault, robbery, and burglary are far higher than America’s, and 53 percent of English burglaries occur while occupants are at home, compared with 13 percent in the U.S., where burglars admit to fearing armed homeowners more than the police.
The Firearms Act required a would-be gun owner to obtain a certificate from the local chief of police, who was charged with determining whether the applicant had a good reason for possessing a weapon and was fit to do so.
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 :::: Clan Cleary - Butler Pedigree::::
2a Hubert, Archbishop of Canterbury in 1193, Chief Justice and Regent of England during the absence of Richard I, Chancellor of England in 1199 and Papal Legate in the reign of King John.
1a Theobald, 5th Chief Butler of Ireland, born 22nd February 1268, who sat in Irish Parliament as a Baron (1295) his name appearing 5th upon the roll, accompanied Edward I to Scotland when the Coronation Stone of Scone, was captured by the English.
heobald, 5th Chief Butler of Ireland, born 22nd February 1268, who sat in Irish Parliament as a Baron (1295) his name appearing 5th upon the roll, accompanied Edward I to Scotland when the Coronation Stone of Scone, was captured by the English.
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 The Butlers
Theobald was awarded generous grants of land in counties Limerick, Tipperary and Wicklow and Henry II gave him the hereditary title of Le Boitiler-the king's chief butler, a title of function.
The Honourable Simon Butler, born in Dublin in 1757, was the first president of the Society of United Irishmen, and a distinguished lawyer.
Benjamin Franklin Butler (1818-93) was of Ulster stock-Scotch-Irish.
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 The House of York
Anne’s arms were: Quarterly, first and fourth, barry of six, or and azure, on a chief of the first two pallets between two base esquires of the second, over all an escutcheon argent; second and third, or a cross gules, impaled with those of her husband.
Made Protector of England in 1454 during Henry’s temporary insanity, he defeated an attempt by the Queen and the Earl of Somerset to regain control when, in 1455, along with the earls of Warwick and Salisbury, he defeated the king’s forces at St Albans.
The arms of Henry Courtenay were: Quarterly, first, France and England quarterly, within a bordure quarterly of England and France, second and third, or, three torteaux; fourth, or a lion rampant azure,; and his crest, out of a ducal coronet or, a plume of ostrich feathers four and three argent.
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 To Prove a Villain -- The Real Richard III
In 1470 he and Warwick returned to England with an army and restored Henry VI to the throne and it was Edward's turn to flee.
She was with her father in England during his attempt to restore Henry VI to the throne but Warwick died at the battle of Barnet in 1471 and Henry shortly afterwards.
However, the presence of "Lady Anne" as the chief mourner in the funeral procession of Henry VI in Shakespeare's play represents dramatic license because she was in hiding at the time.
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 ESPNsoccernet.com - England - Butler blasts Wolves over contracts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Butler is demanding answers over his future and those of 11 other first team squad members whose current deals run out at the end of the season.
Butler, Steffen Iversen and Alex Rae are among the senior players left in the dark about their future.
Butler's scathing criticism could hardly have come at a worse time with his club back at the bottom of the Premiership and facing a daunting trip to Chelsea this weekend.
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 The Burkes, Butlers & Fitzgeralds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
This Gilbert also it was that at that period was chief butler in England; from which their possession of said duty and office it is, that from those days to the present they are called 'Butlers.' The same Gilbert had a son named Walter; to which Walter again Theobald f.
James Butler, the Fair Earl, to him were born three sons: John, that went on a pilgrimage to Spain, to the city of Santiago namely; James, that was earl of Wiltshire; and Thomas, 'the Woollen Earl.' John f.
She that was spouse to Pierce Butler was the earl of Kildare's dau., Margaret: for hospitality and for maintenance of a house, most excellent woman of her time.
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 Settlement in the Kingdom
A deadly pestilence called the sweating sickness, unknown in England till that day, although other visitations of it followed at intervals during this and the succeeding reign, made its appearance in the city towards the close of September.
On the 11th of October the Lord Mayor died of it, and his successor, elected immediately, died of it also five days later; so that a third Lord Mayor had to be chosen to carry on the functions of the mayoralty till the 28th day of the month, when the regular year of office expired.
It was certainly owing to Morton's diplomacy more than to that of any other statesman of the day that Henry was now in possession of the throne; and it was only natural that he should receive, as he did, the highest honours that Henry could bestow.
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 GENUKI: Earls of Great Britain (N-Z)
He was also made governor of Prince Edward, and chief butler of England.
On the death of the king the Earl assembled a body of troops, with the intention of crowning his nephew; but his design was defeated by the machinations of the Duke of Gloucester, afterwards Richard III.
Warwick then invaded England with a fresh force, proclaimed and restored Henry VI., and with the Duke of Clarence, Edward's brother, entered London in triumph.
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 Minster Lovell
His titles where to include: Viscount Lovell; Lord High Chamberlain and Chief Butler of England; Most Honourable of the Privy council to Richard III and Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.
Richard, however, was killed at Bosworth Field against Henry VII (Henry Tudor) in 1485 and Francis fled to France.
Henry VII visited the manor on three occasions - 1493, 1497 and 1503, having, meanwhile, given it to the Duke of York who was then only 4 years old and who was later to become Henry VIII in 1509.
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 GENUKI: English Peerage 1790: Barons 7
Roger obtained from that prince the barony of Yvery in the county of Oxford; and Roger, his son, was a person of great riches, hereditary chief butler to the king of England, and one of the principal partisans of Robert duke of Normandy upon the death of king William the first.
William, his son, appears to have passed a considerable part of his time in England, and was the founder of the castle of Carey at Castle Carey in the county of Somerset.
The family of Vernon is descended from Richard de Vernon, who came over to England with William the conqueror, and was created by Hugh Lupus, lord paramount of the county palatine of Chester, in the year 1086 baron of Shipbroke in that county.
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 BEAR - Online Information article about BEAR
England numbered 25,000, but the imports have since decreased to one-See also:
" prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng.
Butler describes a bear-baiting at length in the first See also:
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 Duke of Norfolk Worship Page
With his niece as Queen of England, Norfolk expected to fill Wolsey's vacant place as chief advisor to the king but was superseded by Thomas Cromwell, a commoner.
Mary's presence in England was, at the very least, an embarrassment to Queen Elizabeth and her government.
He responded that his estates in England were worth nearly as much as the entire kingdom of Scotland and he was content to rise no higher in the world than Duke of Norfolk.
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 Death of Duke of Norfolk, Britain's 'leading Catholic layman'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The 17th Duke of Norfolk, hereditary earl marshal, chief butler of England and the country's premier earl and duke - among his eight titles - died in his sleep at the age of 86 on Tuesday.
The duke, whose position also made him England's premier lay Roman Catholic, inherited his titles from his cousin in 1975 after a long and distinguished military career.
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the leader of the church in England and Wales, said: "He was a true Christian gentleman in the real sense of those words.
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The godmothers were the Queen-dowager of Wurtemberg (the Princess Royal), represented by Princess Augusta, and the Duchess-dowager of Coburg (mother of the Duchess of Kent, and grandmother of both the Queen and the Prince Consort), represented by the Duchess of Gloucester (Princess Mary).
She had quitted England on her marriage in 1797, and in the thirty-one years of her married life only once came back, as an aging and ailing woman.
If there was a place in England which deserved the notice of its future Queen, it was one of the two great universities--the cradles of learning, and, in the case of "the most loyal city of Oxford," the bulwark of the throne.
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 database - pafg163 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
King of England Edmund I (Athelstan) Of Wessex [Parents] was born about 922 in Wessex (GB).
Queen of Wessex Osburh Chief Butler of Wessex [Parents] was born about 810 in Wessex (GB).
King of England Ethelred I Of Wessex was born about 844 in Wantage, Berkshire (GB).
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 Clinton County, Wilmington, Ohio History
The grandfather, William Bernard, was a native of England, and married Mary Fleming.
The Hussey family came into England in 1066, during the Norman conquest with William the Conqueror, with whom they claimed blood alliance For several centuries, they were closely identified with the government of England, several having been members of Parliament.
Sir William Hussey was Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, and was summoned to Parliament under Henry VIII.
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 SOUTHWELL
In the 20th of that King, he was sent with Nicholas de Segrave and Osbert de Spalding, as judges, to hear and adjust complaints in the isle of Man, and was wrote to by the King, in his 22d year, to attend and assist him in the recovery of Gascoign, which had revolted.
Notes: John Southwell, in 1349, the 22d of Edward III, was made chief officer for the King, in the country of Cork in Ireland, for life, on the attainder of Thomas Earl of Desmond, with power to make a deputy, for as much as he was always attendant on the King's person.
Notes: was made seneschal of all the honours and manors forfeited to the King, by Edmund de la Pole, in Norfolk and Suffolk or by the Duchess of Suffolk, his mother, ao.
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Cavendish was a chief revenue agent for Henry VIII and quite adept in using his position to raise no small amount of revenue for himself.
Despite a period of 31 weeks which she spent in the Tower of London as punishment for meddling in the secret marriage of Catherine Grey, she became a favorite of the queen.
But, as perhaps England's first female architect, she had style and panache, and the endurance to see her building dreams through to the end.
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