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In English law, a proclamation is a formal announcement (" royal proclamation "), made under the great seal, of some matter which the King in Council or Queen Regnant in Council desires to make known to his or her subjects: e. g., the declaration of war, or state of emergency, the statement of neutrality, the summoning or dissolution of Parliament, or the bringing into operation of the provisions of some statute the enforcement of which the legislature has left to the discretion of the king in the announcement.
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Although the Parliament of Scotland proclaimed Charles II King of Great Britain and Ireland in Edinburgh on 6 February 1649, the English Parliament instead passed a statute that made any such proclamation unlawful.
The banns of marriage, commonly known simply as the " banns " or " bans " ( from a Middle English word meaning " proclamation ," rooted in Old French ) are the public announcement in a Christian parish church of an impending marriage between two specified persons.
Ye retaliated by issuing a proclamation calling on the people of Canton to " unite in exterminating these troublesome English villains " and offering a $ 100 bounty for the head of any Englishman as the British factories outside the city were burned to the ground in reprisal.
It was founded by King George V by royal proclamation on 17 July 1917, when he changed the name of his family from the German Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ( a branch of the House of Wettin ) to the English Windsor, due to the anti-German sentiment in the British Empire during World War I.
Tyndale's books were banned by royal proclamation in 1530, and Henry then held out the promise of an officially authorised English Bible being prepared by learned and catholic scholars.
It is also used as a casual proclamation, commonly used as the English equivalent of " Victory.
The Declaration of Breda ( issued on 4 April 1660 ) was a proclamation by Charles II of England in which he promised a general pardon for crimes committed during the English Civil War and the Interregnum for all those who recognised Charles as the lawful king ; the retention by the current owners of property purchased during the same period ; religious toleration ; and the payment of pay arrears to members of the army, and that the army would be recommissioned into service under the crown.
The wording of the 1674 proclamation indicates that the flag was customarily being used by English merchantmen before that date.
Attempting to rid themselves of the problem of the protestors, English Heritage gained an interim injunction banning a series of the most prominent protestors from the vicinity of the site, including Des Crow, Geoff Needham, Buster Nolan and Rollo Maughfling, the self-declared " Archdruid of Stonehenge and Glastonbury ", who at one point and climbed on top of Seahenge to declare an eight-point proclamation.
The trade in cloth faced further problems during the English Civil War due to a Royalist proclamation that prohibited the sale of cloth to the Parliamentarian controlled London.
In March 1603, with the Queen clearly dying, Cecil sent James a draft proclamation of his accession to the English throne.
Every proclamation ( such as the announcement of each country during the parade of nations in the opening ceremony ) is spoken in these three languages, or the main two depending on whether the host country is an English or Spanish speaking country.
63, 1782 and a proclamation issued in Gaelic and English announced:
Church marriages " without proclamation " are somewhat analogous to the English " marriages by licence ", although the permission to perform them is not a church matter.
This proclamation was highly inappropriate at the time because of the negotiations for the Spanish marriage / In February 1624 he received an order from the English privy council to refrain from more extreme measures than preventing the erection of religious houses and the congregation of unlawful assemblies.
" In March 1603, with the queen clearly dying, Cecil sent James a draft proclamation of his accession to the English throne.
From the Russian term, the word ukase has entered the English with the meaning of " any proclamation or decree ; an order or regulation of a final or arbitrary nature ".
" In March 1603, with the queen clearly dying, Cecil sent James a draft proclamation of his accession to the English throne.
On 4 November 1641 O ' Neill issued a proclamation at Newry and read out a commission from Charles I of England dated 1 October, commanding him to seize: "... all the forts, castles, and places, of strength and defence within the kingdom, except the places, persons, and estates of Our loyal and loving subjects the Scots ; also to arrest and seize the goods, estates, and persons of all the English Protestants, within the said kingdom to Our use.
The proclamation followed the recommendation of the Imperial Conference by altering the Latin and English forms of the existing royal style and titles, the former by replacing " Britanniarum " with " Magnae Britanniae, Hiberniae ", and the latter by replacing " the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of " with " Great Britain, Ireland and ".
According to this proclamation, " only English was legal in public or private schools, in public conversations, on trains, over the telephone, at all meetings, and in all religious services.
John and his heirs frequently insisted on seizing terrae Normannorum, " lands of the Normans ", the English land of those who preferred to be Frenchmen rather than Englishmen when the victories of Philip Augustus forced a proclamation of allegiance.
An English translation of the proclamation was broadcasted overseas.
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