How did it happen, for example, that the state university, that great symbol of American democracy, failed to flourish in New England as it did in other parts of the country??

Even so, Edward's ambassadors can scarcely have foreseen that five years of unremitting work lay ahead of them before peace was finally made and that when it did come the countless embassies that left England for Rome during that period had very little to do with it.

In spite of the increase in numbers and prestige brought about by the conversions of Newman and other Tractarians of the 1840's and 1850's, the Catholic segment of England one hundred years ago was a very small one ( four per cent, or 800,000 ) which did not enjoy a gracious hearing from the general public.

It was indeed a near thing, but somehow the inherent decency of New England ( which we inherit ) did triumph.

Gaimar asserts that King Harold did this because he had heard of Duke William's landing in England, and needed to rush south to counter it.

At the marriage of Alexander to Margaret of England in 1251, Henry III of England seized the opportunity to demand from his son-in-law homage for the Scottish kingdom, but Alexander did not comply.

The Danish attacks had been particularly damaging to the monasteries, and though Alfred founded monasteries at Athelney and Shaftesbury, the first new monastic houses in Wessex since the beginning of the eighth century, and enticed foreign monks to England, monasticism did not revive significantly during his reign.

He believed, as did other kings in ninth-century England and Francia, that God had entrusted him with the spiritual as well as physical welfare of his people.

His first real efforts, however, did not come until 1832, during the great crisis over the Reform Bill, when he contributed to an anti-Whig pamphlet edited by John Wilson Croker and published by Murray entitled England and France: or a cure for Ministerial Gallomania.

These notes featured an image of King George V ( Bank of England notes did not begin to display an image of the monarch until 1960 ).

' There was a knight of Saint Omer's, retained in wages with the king of England, called sir Denis Morbeke, who had served the Englishmen five year before, because in his youth he had forfeited the realm of France for a murder that he did at Saint-Omer's.

After the 1662 prayer book, development ceased in England until the twentieth century ; that it did was, however, a bit of a close run thing.

But only when a more centralized English monarchy emerged following the Norman invasion, and when the kings of England attempted to assert power over the land and its peoples, did the modern concept emerge, namely of a crime not only as an offence against the " individual ", but also as a wrong against the " State ".

( 2 ) The earls and barons of England did not accept Henry as their king.

Captain Kidd did bury a small cache of treasure on Gardiners Island in a spot known as Cherry Tree Field ; however, it was removed by Governor Bellomont and sent to England to be used as evidence against him.

From the beginning the Emperor had refused to accept the will of Charles II, and he did not wait for England and the Dutch Republic to begin hostilities.

Before the fighting, the Parliament of England did not have a large permanent role in the English system of government, functioning as a temporary advisory committee, summoned by the monarch whenever the Crown required additional tax revenue, and subject to dissolution by the monarch at any time.

These representatives did not, however, have any means of forcing their will upon the king — except by withholding the financial means required to execute his plans .< ref > William Dawson Johnston, The history of England from the accession of James the Second Volume I, Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1901.

The legislation of Henry VIII effectively establishing the independence from Rome of the Church of England, did not alter its constitutional or pastoral structures.

In one correspondence, Murad entertained the notion that Islam and Protestantism had " much more in common than either did with Roman Catholicism, as both rejected the worship of idols ", and argued for an alliance between England and the Ottoman Empire.

Anjou himself did not arrive in England until the end of August, but his ambassadors were already in England.

His father died in the winter of 1913, while Edwin was still in England, and in the summer of 1913, Edwin returned to care for his mother, two sisters, and younger brother, as did his brother William.

England seemed doomed to be bowled out cheaply and to lose the match.

There were long-running claims of corruption and administrative decay within Labour at local level ( the North-East of England was to become a cause célèbre ), and concerns that experienced and able Labour MPs could be deselected ( i. e., lose the Labour Party nomination ) by those wanting to put into a safe seat their friends, family or members of their own Labour faction.

Near the year 550, however, the British began to lose ground once more, and within twenty-five years, it appears that control of almost all of southern England was in the hands of the invaders.

However, the contradiction of simultaneously upholding tradition and embracing innovations was impossible to resolve and, as a consequence, the clergy continued to lose influence over secular affairs in eighteenth-century New England.

Beginning about 550, however, the British began to lose ground once more, and within twenty-five years it appears that control of almost all of southern England was in the hands of the invaders.

The Colts would lose to the New England Patriots and Tom Brady in the 2003 AFC Championship Game and the 2004 divisional playoffs beginning a rivalry between the two team, and more importantly between Manning and Brady.

John infamously offended the local Irish rulers by making fun of their unfashionable long beards, failed to make allies amongst the Anglo-Norman settlers, began to lose ground militarily against the Irish and finally returned to England later in the year, blaming the viceroy, Hugh de Lacy, for the fiasco.

During England's chase on the final afternoon it became apparent that, with Ted Dexter scoring quickly, Australia would lose the Test unless England were bowled out.

* November 25 – England lose 6 – 3 to Hungary at Wembley Stadium, their first ever loss to a continental team at home.

This was a series of highs and lows: Brian Lara of the West Indies compiled a world record of 375 against them at Antigua ; England was bowled out for 46 to lose the third Test ( and with it the series ) but then roared back at Bridgetown to win the 4th Test thanks to two centuries from Alec Stewart.

O ' Neill then releases it in Ireland ( for supporting the terrorists ), England ( for oppressing the Irish and giving them a cause ), and Libya ( for training said terrorists ); he demands that the governments of the world send all citizens of those countries back to their countries, and that they quarantine those countries and let the plague run its course, so they will lose what he has lost ; if they do not, he has more plagues to release.

Twenty thousand jobs would be lost, and many communities in the north of England, Scotland and Wales would lose their primary source of employment.

* England lose 6 – 3 to Hungary at Wembley Stadium their first ever loss to a team from Continental Europe at home.

* English literature, drama, and education lose a major patron and benefactor when William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke and Lord Chamberlain of England, dies on April 10.

However Montague planned to go back to England with the fleet, leading Sidney to give " his opinion, for sending away the whole fleet he thought he should deserve to lose his head ".

* The German national football team lose a World Cup qualifier for only the second time at home in their history ( including as West Germany ) by a heavy 1-5 margin to an England team managed by Sven-Göran Eriksson in the Olympic Stadium in Munchen ( Munich ), ending a significant run of England losses to Germany.

Despite this, the Duke of Kent did not lose his place in the line of succession due to the Act of Settlement 1701, in that The Duke married a fellow member of the Church of England in 1961, who only subsequently converted to Roman Catholicism.

If they took that city, Marlborough's army would be cut off from the coast, causing them to lose communications with England.

The group, then less organised, was given its name by the Australian media during the 1994-1995 Test series in Australia, reportedly for the fans ' audacity in travelling to Australia in the near-certain knowledge that their team would lose, and the fact that they kept on chanting even when England were losing quite badly.

* England tours Australia and becomes the first team to lose every match in a five-match Test series.

This was the only match that England did not lose, and if so much time had not been lost to the weather they might have won it.

As manager, he took England to the World Cup second round in 1998 only to lose to Argentina on penalties.

His father remarried, and would become a successful timber merchant in the city of Homel over the ensuing years, although he would lose virtually his whole fortune after the Russian Revolution, which would prompt his son to relocate to England.