Tree of Jesse
Artistic depiction of Jesus’s family tree, establishing him as a descendent of King David, and therefore the rightful Messiah.
Early Closing Association
19th-century movement in support of the closure of shops on Saturday afternoons.
Amenity society
Organisation tasked with monitoring the planning and development of listed structures.
Alice Glaston
Probably the youngest female to be legally executed in England, in 1546.
Pinfold
Enclosure in which stray domestic animals, cattle, sheep, pigs, geese were kept until their owners paid a fine to collect them.
Recusant
Redirected to Act of Uniformity 1558.
Chiltern Hundreds
Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds is a procedural device allowing members of parliament to resign before a general election.
Eilean Mòr Lighthouse Mystery
Unexplained disappearance of three lighthouse keepers in December 1900.
Frankpledge
System of joint suretyship common in England throughout the Early and High Middle Ages.
Tithing
English historic legal and administrative unit comprising the men of ten neighbouring households, held responsible for the actions for any one of its members.