BrE usage varies, with some authoritative sources such as The Economist and The Times recommending the same usage as in the US, whereas other authoritative sources, such as The King's English, recommend single quotation marks.

The Parliament of England had its roots in the restrictions on the power of kings written into Magna Carta, which explicitly protected certain rights of the King's subjects, whether free or fettered – and implicitly supported what became English writ of habeas corpus, safeguarding individual freedom against unlawful imprisonment with right to appeal.

First printed by the King's Printer Robert Barker, this was the third official translation into English.

* King's Bench, an ancient English court, or the legal citation denoting a case in such court.

Following a series of post-Vatican II reforms, his feast day was changed and his name was added to the Roman Catholic calendar of saints in 1970 for celebration on 22 June jointly with St John Fisher, the only remaining bishop ( owing to the coincident natural deaths of eight aged bishops ) who, during the English Reformation, maintained, at the King's mercy, allegiance to the pope.

* With much legal strife and the encouragement of Sir Francis Bacon, Chief Justice Edward Coke is dismissed from the King's Bench, and the royal prerogatives of King James I triumph over English common law.

Powell was a pupil at King's Norton Boys ' School before moving to King Edward's School, Birmingham, where he studied classics ( which would later influence his ' Rivers of Blood ' speech ), and was one of the few pupils in the school's history to attain 100 % in an end-of-year English examination.

As a result, Lord Mansfield, Chief Justice of the Court of the King's Bench, had to judge whether Somersett's abduction was legal or not under English Common Law.

She married William Carey, a minor noble, in February 1520, at Greenwich, with Henry VIII in attendance: soon after, Mary Boleyn became the English King's mistress.

The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England prefers ' King's Council ', but adds that it was known in Old English as the ' witan '.

On 4 March 1675 he was appointed by royal warrant " The King's Astronomical Observator " — the first English Astronomer Royal, with an allowance of £ 100 a year.

* King's Lynn Academy, an English high school

H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler, in The King's English state that the term nom de plume " evolved " in Britain, where people wanting a " literary " phrase, failed to understand the term nom de guerre, which already existed in French.

* The King's English, H. W. Fowler & F. G. Fowler

For instance, one Poitevin, Peter de Rivaux, held the offices of Treasurer of the Household, Keeper of the King's Wardrobe, Lord Privy Seal, and the sheriffdoms of twenty-one English counties simultaneously.

The Scots Holding Their Young King's Nose To the Grindstone, from a satirical English pamphlet When negotiations stalled, Charles authorised General Montrose to land in the Orkney Islands with a small army to threaten the Scots with invasion, in the hope of forcing an agreement more to his liking.

The King's School is a British co-educational independent school for both day and boarding pupils in the historic English cathedral city of Canterbury in Kent.

The English nobles protested the marriage of the King's sister to a foreigner of modest rank.

Both English and Scottish accounts of Flodden emphasise the King's determination to fight.

) However, Border legend claimed that during the battle of Flodden four Home horsemen or supernatural riders swept across the field snatching up the King's body as such a prize could not be allowed to fall into English hands after such a humiliating defeat, or that the King left the field alive and was killed soon after.

Before writing A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, Henry Fowler and his younger brother, Francis George Fowler ( 1871 – 1918 ), wrote and revised The King's English ( 1906 ), a grammar and usage guide later superseded by this book in the 1930s.

Kingston is widely accepted as a contraction of the English " King's Town ", of which there are many examples.

On 28 July 1589, the English spy Thomas Fowler reported that Anne was " so far in love with the King's Majesty as it were death to her to have it broken off and hath made good proof divers ways of her affection which his Majestie is apt in no way to requite.

The following example is from the grammar book The King's English:

On 25 July Oxford was among those who officiated at the King's coronation, a month later James confirmed Oxford's annuity of £ 1, 000.

* Averil Cameron ( professor at King's College and Oxford ) and Stuart Hall ( historian and theologian ), in their recent translation of the Life of Constantine, point out that writers such as Burckhardt found it necessary to attack Eusebius in order to undermine the ideological legitimacy of the Habsburg empire, which based itself on the idea of Christian empire derived from Constantine, and that the most controversial letter in the Life has since been found among the papyri of Egypt.

The bill allowed for fines for anyone who imported or traded in unlicensed or foreign books, required every book that would be given copyright protection to be entered into the Stationers ' Register, provided a legal deposit system centred around the King's Library, the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, but said nothing about limiting the term of copyright.

Fully devoted to Henry and the royal prerogative, More initially co-operated with the King's new policy, denouncing Wolsey in Parliament and joining the opinion of the theologians at Oxford and Cambridge that the marriage of Henry to Catherine had been unlawful.

In addition to these disasters, Edward II is remembered for his probable death in Berkeley Castle, allegedly by murder, and for being the first monarch to establish colleges at Oxford and Cambridge: Oriel College at Oxford and King's Hall, a predecessor of Trinity College, at Cambridge.

To that end, he petitioned Charles I for rights that would enable Oxford to compete with the Stationers ' Company and the King's Printer, and obtained a succession of royal grants to aid it.

In the mid-1520s, Cromwell assisted in the dissolution of nearly thirty monasteries to raise funds for Wolsey to found The King's School, Ipswich ( 1528 ) and Cardinal College in Oxford ( 1529 ).

This double foundation was the model for Eton College and King's College, Cambridge some 50 years later, and for Westminster School, Christ Church, Oxford and Trinity College, Cambridge in Tudor times.

* Oriel College, Oxford was known as King's College from about 1326 to 1526

However progress towards the King's base at Oxford after this was slow.

From his home near Oxford, Buchan wrote to Mackenzie King: " The important question for me is, of course, the King's visit to Canada.

St Mary's of Charity in Faversham, which was restored ( and transformed, with an unusual spire and unexpected interior ) by Scott in 1874, and Dundee Parish Church ( St Mary's ), and designed the chapels of Exeter College, Oxford, St John's College, Cambridge and King's College London.

It is used in the extended sense of autumn, used as the name of the first term of the academic year, which begins at this time, at various educational institutions in the United Kingdom and Ireland ( typically those with lengthy history and traditions, notably the Universities of Glasgow, Cambridge, Oxford, King's College London, Durham, Aberystwyth and Dublin ).

King's College London was shown from an unflatteringly skewed angle, while Christ Church, Oxford, was edited to avoid showing its famous Tom Tower because that was by Christopher Wren and so not medieval.

At the same time, after the New Model Army had abandoned an attempt to relieve Taunton, Parliament's Committee of Both Kingdoms had directed Fairfax, its commander, to besiege Oxford, the King's wartime capital.

Having done so, Prince Rupert and the King's council reversed their former decision and marched south to relieve Oxford.

Parliament had indeed been alarmed by the loss of Leicester, and Fairfax was now instructed to abandon the siege of Oxford and engage the King's main army.

Brasenose College, originally Brazen Nose College ( in full: The King's Hall and College of Brasenose, often referred to by the abbreviation BNC ), is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

During the English Civil War, Oriel played host to high-ranking members of the King's Oxford Parliament.

During the First English Civil War, the University's college plate was requisitioned by the King's Oxford Parliament and taken to New Inn Hall to be melted down into " Oxford Crowns ".

He was educated at King's School, Rochester ; King's College London ; and University College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate prize for poetry in 1852.

The year following he preferred him to a canonry of King's College, now Christ Church, Oxford, and about the same time, collated him to a prebend in the church of Sarum.