The Abbey was built over some sixty years using local red sandstone, but gives the impression of a single coherent, mainly ' Early English ' architectural design, though the round-arched processional doorway in the western front looks back to late Norman or transitional work.

Early photographs show Englishmen adding a net to the traditional English game of battledore and shuttlecock.

It is written in English, very similar to the Early Modern English linguistic style of the King James Version of the Bible, and has since been fully or partially translated into 108 languages.

Early collections of English ballads were made by Samuel Pepys ( 1633 – 1703 ) and in the Roxburghe Ballads collected by Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer ( 1661 – 1724 ).

Translations into the vernacular were done by famous notables, including King Alfred ( Old English ), Jean de Meun ( Old French ), Geoffrey Chaucer ( Middle English ), Queen Elizabeth I ( Early Modern English ), and Notker Labeo ( Old High German ).

( Early modern philosophers like Locke used the corresponding English terms ' nominal essence ' and ' real essence ').

Early critics, such as Robert Louis Stevenson admired it saying that the footprint scene in Crusoe was one of the four greatest in English literature and most unforgettable ; more prosaically, Dr. Wesley Vernon has seen the origins of forensic podiatry in this episode.

** Brut by Layamon ( Early Middle English )

For example the term " Flemish Primitives ", now outdated in English but used in French, Flemish and other languages, is a synonym for " Early Netherlandish painting ", and it is not uncommon to see Mosan art categorized as Flemish art.

The term is derived from the verb to handfast, used in Middle to Early Modern English for the making of a contract of marriage.

Following a change in vowel pronunciation that marks the transition of English from the medieval to the Renaissance period, the language of the Chancery and Caxton became Early Modern English ( the language of Shakespeare's day ) and with relatively moderate changes eventually developed into the English language of today.

* Bolton, J. K. ( 2007 ) " English Economy in the Early Thirteenth Century ," in Church ( ed ) 2007.

( eds ) ( 2002 ) The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature.

( 1976 ) English Society in the Early Middle Ages ( 1066 – 1307 ).

* The Early English Trade Unions: Documents from Home Office Papers in the Public Record Office by A. Aspinall

Magick is an Early Modern English spelling for magic, used in works such as the 1651 translation of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa's De Occulta Philosophia, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, or Of Magick.

* Merlin: or the early History of King Arthur: a prose romance ( Early English Text Society.

Early in the year, the Welsh forces suffered a series of defeats — which was a bad sign as to date, the rebellion had seen many easy defeats of the English forces.

As a result, Furnival founded the Early English Text Society in 1864 and the Chaucer Society in 1868 to publish old manuscripts.

Enlightenment and Romance in James Macpherson's the Poems of Ossian: Myth, Genre and Cultural Change ( Studies in Early Modern English Literature ) ( 2003 )

Early computers used a variety of 4-bit binary coded decimal ( BCD ) representations and the 6-bit codes for printable graphic patterns common in the U. S. Army ( Fieldata ) and Navy.

Indeed, at the end of the 19th century scholar Ernest DeWitt Burton wrote that there could be " no reasonable doubt " that 1 John and the gospel were written by the same author, and Amos Wilder has said that, " Early Christian tradition and the great majority of modern scholars have agreed on the common authorship of these writings, even where the author has not been identified with the apostle John.

Early developments of the integrated circuit go back to 1949, when the German engineer Werner Jacobi ( Siemens AG ) filed a patent for an integrated-circuit-like semiconductor amplifying device showing five transistors on a common substrate in a 2-stage amplifier arrangement.

Early blues was commonly structured around a repetitive call-and-response pattern, a common element in the African American oral tradition.

Early recipes used a variety of flavors ; however the number of three molded together was a common denominator.

Early Christian writers soon adopted the codex form, and in the Græco-Roman world, it became common to cut sheets from papyrus rolls to form codices.

RP is often believed to be based on the Southern accents of England, but it actually has most in common with the Early Modern English dialects of the East Midlands.

Their common ancestor can be traced back to the Early Tertiary period tens of millions of years ago, with a wide distribution across Eurasia.

Early Gestapo activities came into direct conflict with the SS and it was not until the SA became a common enemy that Göring turned over control of the Gestapo to Himmler and Heydrich ( the three then worked together to destroy the greater threat of the SA leadership ).

Early surfaces included cinders or shale, though concrete, asphalt and tarmac later became more common.

* Early 3rd century – Burial in catacombs becomes common.

Early designs increased the effect of the magnetic field due to the current by using multiple turns of wire ; the instruments were at first called " multipliers " due to this common design feature.

Early symphonies, in common with both overtures and ripieno concertos, have three movements, in the tempi quick-slow-quick.

The law does allow a person to retain a patronymic as a middle name in addition to the surname, as was common in Early Modern times ; this is not a common practice, but does occur, a modern example being Audhild Gregoriusdotter Rotevatn ).

This is a term often used to describe Early cards, although undivided were still in common use up until 1907.

Early Westerns were mostly filmed in the studio, just like other early Hollywood films, but when location shooting became more common from the 1930s, producers of Westerns used desolate corners of Arizona, California, Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, or Wyoming.

Celtic Christianity or Insular Christianity refers broadly to certain features of Christianity that were common, or held to be common, across the Celtic-speaking world during the Early Middle Ages.

The diptych was a common format in Early Netherlandish painting and depicted subjects ranging from secular portraiture to religious personages and stories.

Many of the attributes of Xiuhtecuhtli are found associated with Early Postclassic Toltec warriors but clear representations of the god are not common until the Late Postclassic.

The worship of Xipe Totec was common along the Gulf Coast during the Early Postclassic.

Early leaders of the CCP realized the power of withholding food from rebellious prisoners, and until recently, this practice was very common.

Early Christians were hardly monolithic in their preachings, and the Nativity accounts of the gospels may have diverged as a result, but a comparison of the Nativity stories of Luke and Matthew show common elements in terms of the virgin births, the birth at Bethlehem and the upbringing at Nazareth.