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

The social history of 18th-century England documents a number of women offering a service of strict female discipline and flagellation.

* September 28 – The Earl of Essex arrives back in England, disobeying the Queen's strict orders.

Since her arrival as the King's bride, Anne never left England ; both of her parents had died by the time her marriage was annulled and her brother, a strict Lutheran, did not approve of her adherence to Anglicanism.

His foreign politics were marked by a moral support of the Protestant powers – in his time as a bachelor he wooed Queen Elizabeth I of England, an initiative which made him Knight of the Garter-but at the same time by a strict neutrality.

* Patrick Redmond's The Wishing Game ( 1999 ) provides a thrilling depiction of life in a strict and uncanny boarding school in 1950s rural Norfolk, England.

Nevertheless, the religious houses of England and Wales – with the notable exceptions of those of the Carthusians, the Observant Franciscans, and the Bridgettine nuns and monks – had long ceased to play a leading role in the spiritual life of the country, and other than in these three orders, observance of strict monastic rules was partial at best.

Clyfton was a Puritan minister who believed that the Church of England ought to institute strict reforms to eliminate all vestiges of Catholic practices.

Often criticism was governed by very strict cultural rules of politeness, propriety and decency, and there could be immediate penalties if the wrong words were said or written down ( in 17th century England, more than half of men and about three-quarters of women could not read or write ).

An entail can still exist in England and Wales as an equitable interest, behind a strict settlement ; the legal estate is vested in the current ' tenant for life ' or other person immediately entitled to the income, but on the basis that any capital money arising must be paid to the settlement trustees.

* John of England, chosen by a council of nobles and royal advisors at the death of his brother, Richard I because the heir by strict primogeniture, Arthur of Brittany was a child at that time.

In 1688 he was again in England, and arranged the journey into exile of Mary of Modena and the infant prince, whom he accompanied to Calais, where he received strict instructions from Louis to bring them " on any pretext " to Vincennes.

Danby favoured strict interpretation of the penal laws, enforcing mandatory membership of the Church of England.

Danby was a champion of the Church of England who favoured strict interpretation of the penal laws against both Catholics and Protestant Nonconformists.

" World conflicts made it impossible to hold to a strict five-year plan, but BWA has held 20 Congresses: London, 1905 ; Philadelphia, 1911 ; Stockholm, 1923 ; Toronto, 1928 ; Berlin, 1934 ; Atlanta, 1939 ; Copenhagen, 1947 ; Cleveland, 1950 ; London, 1955 ; Rio de Janeiro, 1960 ; Miami Beach, 1965 ; Tokyo, 1970 ; Stockholm, 1975 ; Toronto, 1980 ; Los Angeles, 1985 ; Seoul, 1990 ; Buenos Aires, 1995 ; Melbourne, 2000 ; Birmingham, England, 2005 ; and Honolulu, 2010.

The Particular Baptists arose in England in the 17th century and took their name from the doctrine of particular redemption, while the term " strict " refers to the practice of closed communion.

His father then sent him to a strict boarding school in England, and when his father came back, Shippey was transferred to King Edward's School in Birmingham, where he studied from 1954 to 1960.

Robert Peck, when they fell foul of the strict doctrines of Anglican England.

One of the most popular offshore radio broadcasts in Europe came from Radio Caroline, which developed out of the strict broadcasting regulations in England in the 1960s.

Nevertheless, the Great Awakening ( and other hymnal styles from New England ) spread south and changed from Wesley's strict formulas.

As a protector of the Puritans in England, he was seen as a natural ally by the " strict " faction of Calvinists in the Netherlands, who had opposed Orange's policy of " religious peace " and now were arrayed against the " lax " Dutch regents who favoured an Erastian Church order, a bone of contention for many years to come.

England and Wales have relatively strict libel laws (" defamation " in Scotland ) in that they are often considered pro plaintiff with the defendant asked to prove that they did not commit libel.

During England ’ s years under Cromwell, the law imposed a strict moral code on the people ( such as abolishing Christmas as too indulgent of the sensual pleasures ).

Strachan supported a strict interpretation of the Constitutional Act of 1791, claiming that clergy reserves were to be given to the Church of England alone rather than to Protestants in general.