Frankpledge
System of joint suretyship common in England throughout the Early and High Middle Ages.
System of joint suretyship common in England throughout the Early and High Middle Ages.
English historic legal and administrative unit comprising the men of ten neighbouring households, held responsible for the actions for any one of its members.
Best-known of the songs sung by the music hall artist George Leybourne (1842–1884).
Largely ineffective royal proclamation intended to address the acute labour shortage in the wake of the Black Death.
Rural settlement smaller than a village.
Act of Parliament intended to suppress beggars and itinerant vagabonds.
Administrative subdivision of a shire.
Almshouses in Chepstow paid for by a bequest from Thomas Powis in 1716, intended to house six poor men and six poor women.
Suffragette group active from 1909 until 1918, encouraging woman to protest against their disenfranchisement by refusing to pay taxes.
Redirected to Bluestocking Circle.