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    The Court of Wards and Liveries was a court established during the reign of Henry VIII in England. Its purpose was to administer a system of feudal dues;...
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  • rehabilitation instead of punishment. Charge (youth) Godchild Court of Wards and Liveries Government involvement in the Terri Schiavo case History of the English...
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    1540, The Court of Wards and Liveries administered the funds received from the wardships, marriages and the granting of livery; both courts and practice...
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  • Court of Wards may refer to: Court of Wards and Liveries, a defunct legal body of 16th- and 17th-century England Court of Wards (India), a similar body...
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    was An Act takeing away the Court of Wards and Liveries, and Tenures in Capite, and by Knights-service, and Purveyance, and for settling a Revenue upon...
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  • The Court of Wards was a legal body created by the East India Company on a model similar to the Court of Wards and Liveries that had existed in England...
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    Thomas Seckford (category Alumni of the University of Cambridge)
    over the Court of Wards and Liveries. The figure identified as Seckford wears a tall patterned hat and sits at the table on the mid-left of the early...
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    Comptroller of the Household (appointed November 1558), Master of the Court of Wards and Liveries (appointed 26 April 1559), Member of Parliament for...
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    of Wards 1540–42 Master of the Court of Wards and Liveries 1542–54 Privy Counsellor 1542 Lord Chamberlain of the Household 1543–45 Lord Steward of the...
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  • Miles Fleetwood (category Wikipedia articles citing Notitia Parliamentaria that were auto-converted and need a page number check)
    Deputy of Ireland. In 1604 Fleetwood had been granted a reversion on the office of receiver-general of the court of wards and liveries on the death of his...
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  • William Damsell (category Alumni of the University of Oxford)
    sometimes spelt Damosel, was Receiver-General of the Court of Wards and Liveries and a Member of Parliament. Of a gentle but obscure family in Devon, Damsell...
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    Most European royal courts still use their state liveries on formal occasions. These are generally in traditional national colours, and are based on 18th-century...
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  • century. Sir Rowland Wandesford (c. 1560-c. 1652), attorney of the Court of Wards and Liveries Christopher Wandesford (disambiguation) This page lists people...
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    under "protection and authority" of the Court of Wards and Liveries and was sent to live in the household of her principal advisor, Sir William Cecil. Among...
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    Walter Calverley (category Alumni of Clare College, Cambridge)
    father, Lord Burghley, as Master of the Court of Wards and Liveries. This gave him an effective veto on the marriages of wards. Lady Gargrave's riches were...
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  • lord or monarch in the context of the feudal system in mediaeval Europe. An appointee of the Court of Wards and Liveries of Tudor England This disambiguation...
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    Nicholas Bacon (Lord Keeper) (category Members of the Parliament of England for Dartmouth)
    was made Attorney of the Court of Wards and Liveries, a prestigious and lucrative post, and by 1552 he had risen to become treasurer of Gray's Inn. As a...
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    Burghley House (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
    (1964). "The monography of archives, 3: The Court of Wards and Liveries in session". Journal of the Society of Archivists. 2 (9): 400–403. The Three Brothers...
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    Morice (Court of Wards and Liveries), An Essay Towards An History of the Ancient Jurisdiction of the Marshalsea of the King's House 9W. Clarke and Sons,...
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    Wardrobe and in 1619 Master of the Court of Wards and Liveries and Chief Commissioner of the Navy. As Keeper of the Wardrobe he supervised the spending of £20...
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    Roger Wilbraham (category Members of the Parliament of England for Callington)
    surveyor of the Court of Wards and Liveries. He bought an estate at Dorfold in the parish of Acton, near his birthplace of Nantwich in Cheshire, and he was...
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    Robert Naunton (category Secretaries of state of the Kingdom of England)
    Secretary of State and was made master of the Court of Wards and Liveries. Sir Robert was re-elected MP for Cambridge University in 1624 and 1625. He was...
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    without livery' at all but simply 'companies'. The Ward Beadles of the City of London are the elected officials, not representatives, of the City Wards so...
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    Encourageing and increasing of Shipping and Navigation", originally compiled by John Raithby "An Act takeing away the Court of Wards and Liveries and Tenures...
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  • being admitted to the Inner Temple in 1603, he became a clerk of the Court of Wards and Liveries, a position for which he allegedly paid £3000, until it was...
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    of Thomond. Donough continued to contest his claim on Dromoland through the Court of Wards and Liveries in Dublin after the Earl's death in 1626 and in...
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    John Winthrop (category CS1 maint: date and year)
    itself and transport its charter and governance to the colony. It also worried Winthrop, who lost his position in the Court of Wards and Liveries in the...
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    (daughter of Sir Rowland Wandesford of Pickhill, an attorney of the Court of Wards and Liveries). Lord Willoughby entered Parliament as Member of Parliament...
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    the King's Men William Damsell, Receiver-General of the Court of Wards and Liveries and a Member of Parliament Thomas Digges, astronomer who is believed...
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    of the Court of Wards and Liveries, placed the extra burden of taxation thus rendered necessary on the Excise. His services in the administration of Ireland...
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