• The Eltham Ordinance of January 1526 was the failed reform of the English court of Henry VIII by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey. It is named after the Eltham Palace...
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    1520s, the royal household sizes and expenses were scaled back in the Eltham Ordinances. The Guard was probably reduced to 80 members at that time.: 35-41 ...
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  • the British railway system 1972. Eltham College, an independent school in Mottingham, south of Eltham. Eltham ordinances, a set of reforms to the administration...
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    As part of a reorganisation of the Court structure, known as the Eltham Ordinance, Cardinal Wolsey, an opponent of the Boleyns, ensured that George lost...
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  • usher of the privy chamber to Henry VIII, with Roger Ratcliffe, in the Eltham Ordinance of 1526. Anthony was knighted after 15 November 1538, while serving...
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  • from the Privy chamber in 1519, and again in 1526 as part of the Eltham Ordinances. Shortly after this he lost an eye in a tournament at Greenwich, and...
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    grand plan of administrative reforms, incorporating the notorious Eltham ordinances of 1526. This reduced the members of the Privy Council from 12 to...
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    privy chamber could contribute to a downfall. An extract from the Ordinances of Eltham, manuscript dated 1526, reads: It is ordeyned that such persons as...
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    engineered Carew's dismissal from the Privy chamber, when he presented the Eltham ordinances of 1526. In 1522, Carew succeeded Sir Henry Guildford as Master of...
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  • usher of the privy chamber to Henry VIII with Anthony Knyvett in the Eltham Ordinance of 1526. He went to Scotland in 1524 with Doctor Magnus to meet the...
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  • from 1524, groom of the privy chamber. This is confirmed in the 1526 Eltham Ordinances where Brereton appears as one of the four grooms of the privy chamber...
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    was described as an usher of the privy chamber to Henry VIII in the Eltham Ordinance. He went to Scotland in 1524 with Doctor Magnus to meet the king's...
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    but it is recorded that he transferred volumes from the Great Wardrobe to Eltham Palace and that he had a yeoman "to kepe the king's bookes". More than forty...
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    Mastermind in 1980. Clive Efford, Labour MP for the London constituency of Eltham, was a cab driver for 10 years before entering parliament in 1997. Oil millionaire...
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    Upon his return his behaviour became even more offensive, and, by the Ordinances of 1311, it was decided that Gaveston should be exiled for a third time...
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    barons pressured the King into agreeing to wide-ranging reforms called the Ordinances of 1311. The newly empowered barons banished Gaveston, to which Edward...
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    reference to "Manchetts for the Queen's Maides", a royal ordinance originating from Eltham Palace in 1526 during Henry VIII's reign which describes a...
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    To curb the rise in wages, the King and Parliament responded with the Ordinance of Labourers in 1349, followed by the Statute of Labourers in 1351. These...
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  • Sir Richard Pembridge and Lord Burghersh at Dover, to be conducted to Eltham and the Savoy Palace and was warmly welcomed in London in January 1364....
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    surviving offspring. Their children were: Edward III, born 1312; John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall, born 1316; Eleanor of Woodstock, born 1318, married Reinoud...
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    visiting his wife, who was expecting their tenth child, Lilburne died at Eltham 29 August 1657, and was buried at Moorfields, "in the new churchyard adjoining...
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    and a portion of line 76, "as three of you or tweyne," to refer to the ordinance of 1390 which specified that no royal gift could be authorised without...
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    (1480–1517)—became a nun — possibly had an illegitimate daughter called Agnes of Eltham Dynastic infighting and misfortune quickly brought about the demise of the...
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    enlarged the rest of the royal household as set down in the Statutes of Eltham. The position was highly regarded, for the value of its close access to...
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    Dowager Duchess remained in favour after her husband's death. Ordinances issued at Eltham in 1526 indicate that she was accorded first place in the Queen's...
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  • example, had their own private apartments within the King's palaces at Eltham and Kings Langley. Admiral of the French fleet and famous to contemporaries...
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  • Perhaps the most high-profile hate crime in modern Britain occurred in Eltham, London, on 24 April 1993, when 18-year-old black student Stephen Lawrence...
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    of other similar establishments in order to formulate the statutes and ordinances of the college, including drawing on the statutes of the already ancient...
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    Provisional Orders Confirmation (Eltham Valley Water and Herts and Essex Water) Act 1932 22 & 23 Geo. 5. c. lx 12 July 1932     Eltham Valley Water Order 1932...
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    inexperience. The King granted him grace and favour rooms at the royal palaces of Eltham and Kings Langley. As an important courtier, Mowbray accompanied Richard...
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