The meaning was eventually further generalized in its modern English usage to apply to any outrageous act or exhibition of pride or disregard for basic moral laws.

" Alfred singled out in particular the laws that he " found in the days of Ine, my kinsman, or Offa, king of the Mercians, or King Æthelbert of Kent, who first among the English people received baptism.

With the transition from English law, which had common law crimes, to the new legal system under the U. S. Constitution, which prohibited ex post facto laws at both the federal and state level, the question was raised whether there could be common law crimes in the United States.

For it hath been held, that if an uninhabited country be discovered and planted by English subjects, all the English laws then in being, which are the birthright of every subject, are immediately there in force ...

The English Province was a component of the international Order from which it obtained its laws, direction, and instructions.

English Gothic writers often associated medieval buildings with what they saw as a dark and terrifying period, characterized by harsh laws enforced by torture, and with mysterious, fantastic, and superstitious rituals.

He executed the laws enforcing religious conformity with severity, and filled the parish churches, but resisted the excessive measures of tyranny prescribed by the English government ; and in consequence of an intrigue of the Duke of Queensberry and Lord Perth, who gained the duchess of Portsmouth with a present of £ 27, 000, he was dismissed in 1684.

In 1210 the king crossed into Ireland with a large army to crush a rebellion by the Anglo-Norman lords ; he reasserted his control of the country and used a new charter to order compliance with English laws and customs in Ireland.

Philip persuaded Parliament to repeal the Protestant religious laws passed by Mary's father, thus returning the English church to Roman jurisdiction.

For later plays such as Othello, Shakespeare probably used the 1599 English translation of Gasparo Contarini's The Commonwealth and Government of Venice for some details about Venice's laws and customs.

Much of the English law then became the basis for conflict of laws for most Commonwealth countries.

In 1684 England revoked the Massachusetts charter, sent over a royal governor to enforce English laws in 1686, and in 1689 passed a broad Toleration act.

Recusants were subject to various civil disabilities and penalties under English penal laws, most of which were repealed during the Regency and reign of George IV ( 1811 – 30 ).

Although Singapore's laws are inherited from British and British Indian laws, including many elements of English common law, the PAP has also consistently rejected liberal democratic values, which it typifies as Western and states that there should not be a ' one-size-fits-all ' solution to a democracy.

He also wrote on the local laws, music, literature, botany, and geography, and made the first English translations of several important works of Indian literature.

All naturalists in English universities were Church of England clergymen, and science became a search for these laws.

In 1530, More refused to sign a letter by the leading English churchmen and aristocrats asking Pope Clement VII to annul Henry's marriage to Catherine, and also quarrelled with Henry VIII over the heresy laws.

In order to allow Henry to divorce his wife, the English parliament enacted laws breaking ties with Rome, and declaring the king Supreme Head of the Church of England ( from Elizabeth I the monarch is known as the Supreme Governor of the Church of England ), thus severing the ecclesiastical structure of England from the Catholic Church and the Pope.

Text of the amendment echoed the English Bill of Rights 1689 which stated the late King James the Second ... did endeavour to subvert and extirpate ... the laws and liberties of this kingdom ... by raising and keeping a standing army within this kingdom in time of peace without consent of Parliament, and quartering soldiers contrary to law.

There is some difference of opinion as to how revolutionary the events of 1688-89 actually were, and several commentators make the point that the provisions of the English Bill of Rights did not represent new laws, but rather stated existing rights.

Mark Thompson wrote that, apart from determining the succession, the English Bill of Rights did " little more than set forth certain points of existing laws and simply secured to Englishmen the rights of which they were already posessed.

In 1992 they published the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, Bahá ' u ' lláh's book of laws in English, and further translations have since been published.

His successor Ine issued one of the oldest surviving English codes of laws and established a second West Saxon bishopric.

* 1586 – John Ford, English dramatist ( d. 1639 )

The first recorded English visitor was Sir Francis Drake in 1586, who reported that the caymanas were edible, but it was the turtles which attracted ships in search of fresh meat for their crews.

Mary may not have been told of every Catholic plot to put her on the English throne, but from the Ridolfi Plot of 1571 ( which caused Mary's suitor, the Duke of Norfolk, to lose his head ) to the Babington Plot of 1586, Elizabeth's spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham and the royal council keenly assembled a case against her.

In 1586 Angel Day dedicated The English Secretary, the first epistolary manual for writing model letters in English, to Oxford, and William Webbe praised him as " most excellent among the rest " of ourt poets in his Discourse of English Poetry.

* John Ford ( dramatist ) ( 1586 – ca. 1640 ), English playwright and poet during Jacobean and Caroline literary eras ; best known for 1633 tragedy Tis Pity She's a Whore

* 1586 – English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America.

* 1586 – Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English statesman and art collector ( d. 1646 )

* 1647 – Thomas Hooker, English minister, founded the Colony of Connecticut ( b. 1586 )

( 1 ) William Webbe's Discourse of English Poetrie ( 1586 ) surveys and criticises the early Elizabethan poets and their works.

Other notable works included Angel Day's The English Secretorie ( 1586, 1592 ), George Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie ( 1589 ), and Richard Rainholde's Foundacion of Rhetorike ( 1563 ).

* Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation, from the Prosperous Voyage of M. Thomas Candish esquire into the South Sea, and so around about the circumference of the whole earth, begun in the yere 1586, and finished 1588, 1598 – 1600, Volume XI.

* 1586 – Battle of Zutphen: Spanish victory over the English and Dutch.

* November 30 – Sir Philip Sidney, English courtier and poet ( d. 1586 )

* October 4 – Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English statesman ( b. 1586 )

* August 24 – Nicholas Stone, English sculptor and architect ( b. 1586 )

** Chidiock Tichborne, English conspirator and poet ( d. 1586 )

** Margaret Clitherow, English Catholic martyr ( d. 1586 )

The Babington Plot was a Catholic plot in 1586 to assassinate Queen Elizabeth, a Protestant, and put Mary, Queen of Scots, a Catholic, on the English throne.

* The English poet Sir Philip Sidney died in 1586 in Arnhem.

" It is the seventh oldest surviving English place-name in the U. S., first applied as " Chesepiook " by explorers heading north from the Roanoke Colony into a Chesapeake tributary in 1585 or 1586.

After Lane's colonists returned to England in 1586 Sir Walter Raleigh, who held the land patent for the proposed English colony of Virginia, tasked White with the job of organizing a new colony in the Chesapeake Bay area, one which would be self-sustaining and which would include women and children.

Sir Philip Sidney ( 30 November 1554 – 17 October 1586 ) was an English poet, courtier and soldier, and is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan Age.