One man remarked that if he had a hundred pounds, he would give ninety of them to be back in England.

It was introduced to Europe at the close of the 17th century as a handsome greenhouse plant, and is hardy outdoors in the south of England and Ireland if protected from severe frosts.

It may also have been to secure the release of the king from a vow to go on pilgrimage, if sources from after the Norman Conquest of England are to be believed.

Opponents of repeal, such as Enoch Powell and Adrian Hilton, feel that it would lead to the disestablishment of the Church of England as the state religion if a Roman Catholic were to come to the throne.

England had no choice but to build a powerful navy if it were to regain global power.

The Journal of the National Cancer Institute and The New England Journal of Medicine published articles in 1996 about a trial that was conducted to determine if vitamin A ( in the form of retinyl palmitate ) and β-carotene had any beneficial effects to prevent cancer.

In April the Spanish ambassador, Bernardino de Mendoza, wrote to King Philip of Spain that it had been proposed that if Anjou were to travel to England to negotiate his marriage to the Queen, Oxford, Surrey and Windsor should be hostages for his safe return.

In a famous comment McKenzie ( 1954, p. 179 ) pointed that " A moment's consideration will convince one that Lancashire would be unlikely to produce cotton cloth if the cotton had to be grown in England.

Even if Belgium is the second industrial country after England, the effect of the industrial revolution there was very different.

In relation to England and Wales, the expression " indictable offence " means an offence which, if committed by an adult, is triable on indictment, whether it is exclusively so triable or triable either way ; and the term " indictable ", in its application to offences, is to be construed accordingly.

The House of Lords asked the judges of the common law courts to answer five questions on insanity as a criminal defence, and the formulation that emerged from their review — that a defendant should not be held responsible for his actions only if, as a result of his mental disease or defect, he ( i ) did not know that his act would be wrong ; or ( ii ) did not understand the nature and quality of his actions — became the basis of the law governing legal responsibility in cases of insanity in England.

Controversially, the Australian wicket-keeper Rod Marsh and opening bowler Dennis Lillee both placed bets on England to win, later claiming that 500 – 1 were silly ( if not incredible ) odds on any two-horse race.

* 1689 – The Convention Parliament convenes to determine if James II and VII, the last Roman Catholic monarch of England, Ireland and Scotland, had vacated the thrones when he fled to France in 1688.

In September 1937, the British Consul in Munich, writing about the group Ribbentrop had brought to the Nuremberg Party Rally, reported that there were some " serious persons of standing among them " and that an equal number of Ribbentrop's British contingent were " eccentrics and few, if any, could be called representatives of serious English thought, either political or social, while they most certainly lacked any political or social influence in England ".

Some contemporary chroniclers suggested that in January Philip II of France had been charged with deposing John on behalf of the papacy, although it appears that Innocent merely prepared secret letters in case Innocent needed to claim the credit if Philip did successfully invade England.

It was the difficulty in using the longbow which led various monarchs of England to issue instructions encouraging their ownership and practice, including the Assize of Arms of 1252 and King Edward III's declaration of 1363: " Whereas the people of our realm, rich and poor alike, were accustomed formerly in their games to practise archery – whence by God's help, it is well known that high honour and profit came to our realm, and no small advantage to ourselves in our warlike enterprises ... that every man in the same country, if he be able-bodied, shall, upon holidays, make use, in his games, of bows and arrows ... and so learn and practise archery.

The extent of Lollardy in the general populace at this time is also unknown, but the prevalence of Protestant iconoclasm in England suggests Lollard ideas may still have had some popular influence if Zwingli was not the source, as Lutherans did not advocate iconoclasm.

Thus if Portugal specialized in wine and England in cloth, both states would end up better off if they traded.

" The Kriegsmarine response was rather more restrained but equally focused on pointing out the many difficulties to be surmounted if invading England was to be a viable option.

He prefaced the order by stating: " As England, in spite of her hopeless military situation, still shows no signs of willingness to come to terms, I have decided to prepare, and if necessary to carry out, a landing operation against her.

The New Englanders took six Acadian hostages, who would be executed if the Acadians or Mi ' kmaq rebelled against New England control.

Honorius wrote to the clergy and nobles of England, directing them to treat his legate as if he were Honorius himself.

The statutes were notable in that they both gave preference to students born in France who had already studied elsewhere in England, and that they required students to report fellow students if they indulged in excessive drinking or visited disreputable houses.

She even goes on to state that Lady Nancy Astor ' even offered all her sapphires if he would stay on in England '.

With financial support from Emerson, Alcott left Concord on May 8, 1842, to a visit to England, leaving his brother Junius with his family.

It is possible that the reason Ealdred travelled through Hungary was to arrange the travel of Edward the Exile's family to England.

It is not known exactly when Edward the Exile's family returned to England, whether they returned with Edward in 1057, or sometime later, so it is only a possibility that they returned with Ealdred in 1058.

The daughter of a poor Irish clergyman in the Church of England, Anne Brontë lived most of her life with her family at the parish of Haworth on the Yorkshire moors.

Ben Franklin's mother, Abiah Folger, was born into a Puritan family among those that fled to Massachusetts to establish a purified Congregationalist Christianity in New England, when King Charles I of England began persecuting Puritans.

Charlton was related to several professional footballers on his mother's side of the family: his uncles were Jack Milburn ( Leeds United and Bradford City ), George Milburn ( Leeds United and Chesterfield ), Jim Milburn ( Leeds United and Bradford City ) and Stan Milburn ( Chesterfield, Leicester City and Rochdale ), and legendary Newcastle United and England footballer Jackie Milburn, was his mother's cousin.

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.

The revision of 1959 was much more substantial, bearing a family relationship to that of the abortive 1928 book in England.

Coolidge's family had deep roots in New England.

In order to secure a qualification as a lecturer, the family moved to England, where he registered at the School of Oriental and African Studies.

It was decided that he was now strong enough to make the journey to England to be reunited with his family and, on 13 July 1604, Charles left Dunfermline for England where he was to spend most of the rest of his life.

The name Erasmus had been used by a number of his family and derives from his ancestor Erasmus Earle, Common Sergent of England under Oliver Cromwell.

In 1888, when he was four years old, the family moved to Liverpool, England, and in 1890 to the United States, to Richmond, Virginia.

The de Vere family, originally from France, had settled in England before the Norman Conquest.

In 1652, when Elihu was three years old, the Yale family moved back to England and never returned to North America.

While on leave in England and on holiday with his family in Cornwall in September 1927, he reappraised his life.

In England, he settled back in the family home at Southwold, renewing acquaintance with local friends and attending an Old Etonian dinner.

King Charles II of England, his family and his court left the city for Oxfordshire.

Hawks's family on his father's side were American pioneers and his ancestor John Hawks had emigrated from England to Massachusetts in 1630.

His father, William Ford ( 1826 – 1905 ), was born in County Cork, Ireland, of a family originally from western England, who were among migrants to Ireland as the English created plantations.

In 2001 with his health failing, he returned to England, living with his daughter and family at Dereham, Norfolk ( Acquaviva 2008 ).

Another theory is that John Alden came from Harwich, England, where there are records of an Alden family who were related by marriage to Christopher Jones, the Mayflower ’ s captain.

Monroe was raised in a family that belonged to the Church of England when it was the state church in Virginia before the Revolution.