The New Testament offered to the public today is the first result of the work of a joint committee made up of representatives of the Church of England, Church of Scotland, Methodist Church, Congregational Union, Baptist Union, Presbyterian Church of England, Churches in Wales, Churches in Ireland, Society of Friends, British and Foreign Bible Society and National Society of Scotland.

In England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Australia, arraignment is the first of eleven stages in a criminal trial, and involves the clerk of the court reading out the indictment.

Affidavits are made in a similar way as to England and Wales, although " make oath " is sometimes omitted.

The Church of England ( which until the 20th century included the Church in Wales ) initially separated from the Roman Catholic Church in 1538 in the reign of King Henry VIII, reunited in 1555 under Queen Mary I and then separated again in 1570 under Queen Elizabeth I ( the Roman Catholic Church excommunicated Elizabeth I in 1570 in response to the Act of Supremacy 1559 ).

Sophia Gardens in Cardiff held the First Test in the 2009 Ashes series, the first time England had played a home Test in Wales.

Assault in some US jurisdictions is defined more broadly still as any intentional physical contact with another person without their consent ; but in the majority of the United States, and in England and Wales and all other common law jurisdictions in the world, this is defined instead as battery.

Section 39 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 provides that common assault, like battery, is triable only in the magistrates ' court in England and Wales ( unless it is linked to a more serious offence, which is triable in the Crown Court ).

There is no distinction made in Scotland between assault and battery ( which is not a term used in Scots law ), although, as in England and Wales, assault can be occasioned without a physical attack on another's person, as demonstrated in Atkinson v. HM Advocate wherein the accused was found guilty of assaulting a shop assistant by simply jumping over a counter wearing a ski mask.

* Attorney ( England and Wales ), a person, who may be but is not necessarily a lawyer, who is authorised to act on someone else's behalf in either a business or a personal matter

Archery, romance and elite culture in England and Wales, c. 1780 – 1840, 89, 193 – 208.

In the United Kingdom, dialects, word use and accents vary not only between England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, but also within them.

The Act of Settlement was, in many ways, the major cause of the union of Scotland with England and Wales to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.

The four dioceses of Wales were formerly also under the Province of Canterbury until 1920 when they were transferred from the established Church of England to the disestablished Church in Wales.

He does not, however, exercise any direct authority in the provinces outside England, except in certain minor roles dictated by Canon in those provinces ( for example, he is the judge in the event of an ecclesiastical prosecution against the Archbishop of Wales ).

The membership of nearly 25, 000 women, all singing in English, includes choruses in most of the fifty United States as well as in Australia, Canada, England, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Scotland, Sweden, Wales and the Netherlands.

In England the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 allowed such inferences to be made for the first time in England and Wales ( it was already possible in Scotland under the rule of criminative circumstances ).

In England and Wales, affray is a statutory offence.

The common law offence of affray was abolished for England and Wales on 1 April 1987.

Accrington is the smallest town in England and Wales with a Football League club.

In England and Wales the common law offence of being a common barator was abolished by section 13 ( 1 )( a ) of the Criminal Law Act 1967.

Category: Common law offences in England and Wales

** Roman Britain or Britannia, a Roman province covering most of modern England and Wales and some of southern Scotland from 43 to 410 AD

In 2000, Mount Holyoke was included in a study by the National Park Service for the designation of a new National Scenic Trail now tentatively called the New England National Scenic Trail, which would include the Metacomet-Monadnock Trail in Massachusetts and the Mattabesett Trail and Metacomet Trail trails in Connecticut.

Jacobethan is the style designation coined in 1933 by John Betjeman to describe the mixed national Renaissance revival style that was made popular in England from the late 1820s, which derived most of its inspiration and its repertory from the English Renaissance ( 1550 – 1625 ), with elements of Elizabethan and Jacobean.

The Quantock Hills were designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty ( AONB ) in 1956, the first such designation in England under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949.

For the 1980 Census, the designation was changed to " census-designated places " and the designation was made available for places inside urbanized areas in New England.

In 1641 his great-grandson Henry Frederick Thynne was created a Baronet, of Cause Castle, in the Baronetage of England ( some sources claim that the territorial designation is " Kempsford in the County of Gloucester ").

In the 1970s, the Queensland Main Roads Department rerouted the designation of the New England Highway north of Warwick to follow the former Lockyer-Darling Downs Highway ( national route 17 ) so that it terminated in Toowoomba.

In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation and, where they are found, the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties.

The Quantock Hills were designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty ( AONB ) in 1956, the first such designation in England under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949.

The territorial designation fell into disuse in England early on, save for peers of the realm.

Election to full membership of the ICC meant the West Indies could play official Test matches, which is the designation given to the most important international games, and the Windies became the fourth team actually to play a recognised Test match on 23 June 1928 when they took on England at Lord's in London.

Although most U. S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Hurlburt Field is assigned HRT by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA ( which assigned HRT to RAF Linton-on-Ouse in Yorkshire, England ).

designation is particularly relevant for dates which fall between the start of the modern year ( 1 January ) and the start of the contemporary year, which was 25 March in England up until 1752 ( see Julian year article ).

* M10 motorway ( Great Britain ), a former designation for a motorway in Hertfordshire, England

The designation has its origin in the recommendations of the Wild Life Conservation Special Committee ( Conservation of Nature in England and Wales, Command 7122, 1947 ) which established the framework for nature conservation in the United Kingdom and suggested a national suite of protected areas comprising National Nature Reserves, Conservation Areas ( which incorporated suggestions for Sites of Special Scientific Interest ), National Parks, Geological Monuments, Local Nature Reserves and Local Educational Nature Reserves.

A local nature reserve is a statutory designation made under Section 21 – " Establishment of nature reserves by local authorities " – of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 by principal local authorities in England, Scotland and Wales.

An online searchable register of all registered Parks and Gardens that are legally protected through the designation system, has been incorporated into the National Heritage List for England currently available through the English Heritage website.

Today, the former Richmond-Petersburg Turnpike with the I-95 designation, and parallel Interstate 295 ( which forms an eastern bypass of Richmond and Petersburg ) carry some of the heaviest traffic flows of any portion of the busy eastern U. S. corridor between Florida and New England.

SSSI is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom, selected by Natural England, for areas with particular landscape and ecological characteristics.

The Ecclesiastical Titles Act 1851 was passed in response, making it a criminal offence for anyone outside the " united Church of England and Ireland " to use any episcopal title " of any city, town or place, or of any territory or district ( under any designation or description whatsoever ), in the United Kingdom " e. g. Bishop of Anytown, and provided that any property passed to a person under such a title would be forfeit to the Crown.

* 20px New England Interstate Route 11, the designation carried by NH 11 in the 1920s

* 30px New England Interstate Route 28, an early designation for NH 28

The designation de Ernle occurs very early in the history of the adoption of hereditary surnames in England, a phenomenon which began along the south-eastern coast of England among the feudal gentry and nobility whose members were mostly drawn from the descendants of the Norman invaders and their allies.