Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ( 1788 ) summarised the scholarly consensus as being that the Liber Pontificalis was composed by " apostolic librarians and notaries of the viii < sup > th </ sup > and ix < sup > th </ sup > centuries " with only the most recent portion being composed by Anastasius.

A mass of Petre's correspondence has been summarised in the ' Calendars of State Papers ', and many of the originals are in the Cottonian, Harleian, and Additional Manuscripts in the British Museum ; his transcript of the notes for Edward VI's will is in the Inner Temple Library.

As summarised in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, " The celebrated Athenais was educated by her father Leontius in the religion and sciences of the Greeks ; and so advantageous was the opinion which the Athenian philosopher entertained of his contemporaries, that he divided his patrimony between his two sons, bequeathing to his daughter a small legacy of one hundred pieces of gold, in the lively confidence that her beauty and merit would be a sufficient portion.

Claggart devises phony charges of mutiny and other crimes to level against Billy, and Captain the Honorable Edward Fairfax Vere institutes an informal inquiry, at which Billy convulsively strikes Claggart because his stammer prevents him from speaking.

In November 2006, in the midst of charges leveled at Taleyarkhan as regards his research standards, Dr. Edward R. Forringer and undergraduates David Robbins and Jonathan Martin of LeTourneau University presented two papers at the American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting that reported replication of neutron emission during a visit to the meta-stable fluids research lab at Purdue University.

On 20 January 1327, Edward II was informed at Kenilworth Castle of the charges brought against him: The King was guilty of incompetence ; allowing others to govern him to the detriment of the people and Church ; not listening to good advice and pursuing occupations unbecoming to a monarch ; having lost Scotland and lands in Gascony and Ireland through failure of effective governance ; damaging the Church, and imprisoning its representatives ; allowing nobles to be killed, disinherited, imprisoned and exiled ; failing to ensure fair justice, instead governing for profit and allowing others to do likewise ; and of fleeing in the company of a notorious enemy of the realm, leaving it without government, and thereby losing the faith and trust of his people.

A further provocation came in a case brought by Macduff, son of Malcolm, Earl of Fife, in which Edward demanded that Balliol appear in person before the English Parliament to answer the charges.

In November 1538, using evidence acquired from Sir Geoffrey Pole under interrogation in the Tower, he imprisoned the Marquess of Exeter, Sir Edward Neville, and Sir Nicholas Carew on charges of treason ; all were executed in the following months.

At the Battle of Salamanca, Sir Edward Pakenham's 3rd Division charges Thomieres

Canadian Arnold Boult and his wife Evelyn are celebrating the first birthday of their son Edward with their friend, physician Larry Woodhope, in their London home shortly after World War I. Arnold is about to embark upon a new career in finance with Harry Simpkin, who has been released from prison after serving time on fraud charges.

The case fell apart when Warwick released Edward IV from custody, and Jacquetta was cleared by the king ’ s great council of the charges on January 19, 1470.

To investigate these charges, the SISS took possession of the older files of the IPR, which had been stored at the Lee, Massachusetts farm of Edward C. Carter, an IPR trustee.

Edward Wightman ( Burbage, 20 December 1566 – 11 April 1612 ) was an English radical Anabaptist, executed at Lichfield on charges of heresy.

* 1947: Edward Brooker takes over as Labor premier after Robert Cosgrove's resignation to face corruption and bribery charges

Despite repeated attempts by Edward Randolph to stop him ( Mather was arrested, tried and exonerated on one charge, but Randolph made a second arrest warrant with new charges ), Mather was clandestinely spirited aboard a ship bound for England in April 1688.

In 1914, Premier Flemming was forced to resign after charges of fundraising irregularities against him were made public by a powerful group of back-room Liberals known as the " Dark Lantern Brigade " led by party organizers Peter Veniot and Edward S. Carter plus lawyer and Federal Member of Parliament, Frank Carvell.

On July 26, 1943 Kaltenbach along with Max Otto Koischwitz, Jane Anderson, Edward Delaney, Constance Drexel, Robert Henry Best, Douglas Chandler and Ezra Pound was indicted in absentia by a District of Columbia grand jury on charges of treason.

He also starred with Susan Hayward along with Edward G. Robinson and Luther Adler in House of Strangers ( 1949 ) as Max Monetti, a lawyer who defends his father ( Robinson ) against government charges of banking irregularities and goes to prison for jury tampering.

** Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, one of the wealthiest magnates in England, whom Henry had executed on flimsy charges in 1521.

Edward Shippen was skeptical of Arnold ; in 1779, the Council of Pennsylvania had laid eight formal charges of corruption and malfeasance with the money of the federal and state governments.

In 1582 his cousin Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, quarrelled with him, and revived the charges of heresy and of treasonable correspondence with Mary.

In January 2009, Prime Minister Edward Natapei's government stated that it would consider seeking Regenvanu's and Carcasses ' suspension from Parliament over the charges.

The other major Northumberland Strait crossing, the Confederation Bridge from Prince Edward Island to New Brunswick, only charges its toll when exiting Prince Edward Island as well.

Once the new king, Edward III, came of age and assumed personal control of government, he annulled the charges against his uncle.

For example, charges in the impeachment of Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford in 1701 included many violations of trust and his position.

A variety of international organizations and eight senators ( including Al Gore and Edward M. Kennedy ) put pressure on the government of Kenya to substantiate the charges against the pro-democracy activists or risk damaging relations with the United States.

Bad relations between England and Flanders brought hard times to the shepherds scattered over the dales and downs as well as to the crowded Flemish cities, and while the English, so far, had done no more than grumble, Othon had seen what the discontent might lead to, for before he left the Low Countries the citizens of Ghent had risen in protest against the expense of supporting Edward and his troops, and the regular soldiers had found it unexpectedly difficult to put down the nasty little riot that ensued.

Academic historians decidedly sided with Geoffrey Elton's The Practice of History against Edward Hallett Carr's What Is History ?.

Gibson portrays William Wallace, a 13th-century Scottish warrior who led the Scots in the First War of Scottish Independence against King Edward I of England.

Both the colonies of Nova Scotia ( present-day Nova Scotia and New Brunswick ) and St. John's Island ( Prince Edward Island ) were affected by the American Revolutionary War, largely by privateering against American shipping, but several coastal communities were also the targets of American raiders.

Æthelred was not personally suspected of participation, but as the murder was committed at Corfe Castle by the attendants of Ælfthryth, it made it more difficult for the new king to rally the nation against the military raids by Danes, especially as the legend of St Edward the Martyr grew.

* 1478 – George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is executed in private at the Tower of London.

The two votes against were cast by Bishop Aloisio Riccio, and Bishop Edward Fitzgerald.

The horseshoe is presented as a talisman in The True Legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil ; Showing how the Horse-Shoe came to be a Charm against Witchcraft, written in 1871 by Edward G. Flight, with illustrations by George Cruikshank and engravings by John Thompson.

His struggles for power against Godwin, Earl of Wessex, the claims of Canute's Scandinavian successors, and the ambitions of the Normans whom Edward introduced to English politics to bolster his own position caused each to vie for control Edward's reign.

The government ( foreign policy conduct was the responsibility of Józef Beck ) undertook opportunistic hostile actions against Lithuania and Czechoslovakia, while it failed to control the increasingly fractured situation at home, where fringe groups and extreme nationalist circles were getting more outspoken ( one Camp of National Unity was connected to the new strongman, Marshal Edward Rydz-Śmigły ).

* 1469 – Wars of the Roses: the Battle of Edgecote Moor pitting the forces of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick against those of Edward IV of England takes place.

It was under these conditions that Pope Gregory XI, who in January, 1377, had gone from Avignon to Rome, sent on 22 May five copies of his bull against Wycliffe, dispatching one to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the others to the Bishop of London, King Edward III, the Chancellor, and the university ; among the enclosures were 18 theses of his, which were denounced as erroneous and dangerous to Church and State.

Later both father and son sided with Edward I against John, whom they considered a usurper and to whom Robert had not sworn fealty.

In August 1296, Bruce and his father swore fealty to Edward I of England at Berwick-upon-Tweed, but in breach of this oath, which had been renewed at Carlisle, the younger Robert supported the Scottish revolt against King Edward in the following year.

Urgent letters were sent ordering Bruce to support Edward's commander, John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey ( to whom Bruce was related ) in the summer of 1297 ; but instead of complying, Bruce continued to support the revolt against Edward.

The Scottish lords were not to serve beyond the sea against their will, and were pardoned for their recent violence in return for swearing allegiance to King Edward.

No records have ever been found in England stating that King Edward had any knowledge of treachery by Robert Bruce before his acts against Comyn.

Members of the early 20th century school of American Anthropology headed by Franz Boas and Edward Sapir also embraced forms of the idea to one extent or another, but Sapir in particular wrote more often against than in favor of anything like linguistic determinism.

Both Edward VI of England and Elizabeth I promulgated statutes against simony.

* Edward Sexby ( 1616 – 1658 ); English Puritan, soldier and Leveller ; he turned against Cromwell and plotted his assassination

Sir Edward Coke, in Semayne's case ( 1604 ), famously stated: " The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose.

Protests started by Barbara Rose Johns in 1951 in Farmville against segregated schools led to the lawsuit Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County.

The term vaccine derives from Edward Jenner's 1796 use of cow pox ( Latin variola vaccinia, adapted from the Latin vaccīn-us, from vacca, cow ), to inoculate humans, providing them protection against smallpox.