The area was anciently part of the parish of Trevethin, in Monmouthshire.

And as the practice was anciently common of fining, imprisoning, or otherwise punishing the jurors, merely at the discretion of the court, for finding a verdict contrary to the direction of these dependent judges ; it is obvious, that juries were then no manner of security to the liberty of the subject.

Lupercalia, of which many write that it was anciently celebrated by shepherds, and has also some connection with the Arcadian Lycaea.

The region surrounding Constantine, Algeria ( anciently, western Numidia ) was formerly ruled primarily from Tunis.

Thus the term is often stated as " coat-armour ", because it was anciently displayed on the front of a coat of cloth.

Indeed the peerage was anciently termed the baronage before the higher degrees were created.

Towards the west it included that of Caudium, with the exception of the town itself ; to the north it extended as far as the river Tamarus ( modern Tammaro ), including the village of Pago Veiano, which, as we learn from an inscription, was anciently called Pagus Veianus ; on the northeast it comprised the town of Equus Tuticus ( modern Sant ' Eleuterio, near Castel Franco ), and on the east and south bordered on the territories of Aeclanum and Abellinum.

language of poetic myth anciently current in the Mediterranean and Northern Europe was a magical language bound up with popular religious ceremonies in honor of the Moon-goddess, or Muse, some of them dating from the Old Stone Age, and that this remains the language of true poetry ...

Kerry ( or more anciently Ciarraighe ) means the " people of Ciar " which was the name of the pre-Gaelic tribe who lived in part of the present county.

Mayfair was anciently part of the parish of St Martin in the Fields, and became part of St George Hanover Square in 1724.

The church of All Saints at York has a lantern very much resembling this of Boston ; ' and tradition tells us that anciently a large lamp hung in it, which was lighted in the night time, as a mark for travellers to aim at, in this city.

It was anciently the chief river of the Levant, also called Draco, Typhon and Axius.

Wakefield was anciently a market and parish town in the Agbrigg division of the wapentake of Agbrigg and Morley in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

One of his first publications was entitled Gerania ; a New Discovery of a Little Sort of People, anciently discoursed of, called Pygmies ( 1675 ), a whimsical sketch to which Swift's Voyage to Lilliput possibly owes something.

Concerning the discrepancy in names over the centuries, the most probable explanation is that the original name Lulliacum or Lugniacum was later corrupted into Nulliacum / Nully by inversion of the consonants, perhaps under the influence of an old Celtic word meaning " swampy land, boggy land " ( as was the land around Neuilly-sur-Seine in ancient times ) which is found in the name of many French places anciently covered with water, such as Noue, Noë, Nouan, Nohant, etc.

Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Skipton was anciently distinguished by Skipton Castle, constructed in 1090 as a wooden motte-and-bailey by Robert de Romille, a Norman baron.

The 16th-century Archbishop of Uppsala Johannes Magnus asserted that the city was anciently founded by, and named for, an early Swedish king named Ubbo ( Uppsala

From that date the Cecils maintained a connection with the town which is recorded by the naming of The Salisbury Arms ( anciently the Black Lion Inn ): the title Marquess of Salisbury was granted to James Cecil in 1789.

Woolston was anciently part of Lancashire, but after local government reforms of 1974, it became part of Cheshire.

Lying within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire since the early 12th century, Ashton-under-Lyne anciently constituted a " single parish-township ", but was divided into four divisions ( sometimes each styled townships ): Ashton Town, Audenshaw, Hartshead, and Knott Lanes.

Cumbric was a variety of the British language, in the Celtic language group, spoken during the Early Middle Ages in the Hen Ogledd or " Old North ", or what is now northern England and southern Lowland Scotland, the area anciently known as Cumbria.

Unlike most counties in Great Britain, which were divided anciently into hundreds, Yorkshire was divided first into three ridings and then into numerous wapentakes within each riding.

Some within the LDS Church, particularly Smith's contemporaries, have expressed the view that the endowment was given anciently by God in its original form at the Temple of Solomon, but that the form of the ritual degenerated into the form used by Freemasons.

The manor of Chicheley ( which some suggest may have once been called Thickthorn ) anciently belonged to the Pagnell family of Newport Pagnell, but was given by them to the church.

East Berlin was a political exclave that existed between 1949 and 1990.

It was a great morale boost for West Berliners, who lived in an exclave deep inside East Germany and feared a possible East German occupation.

The territory of the Kaliningrad Oblast coincides with that of the northern part of historical East Prussia ( German: Nord-Ostpreussen ), which was an exclave of Germany from World War I until 1945.

West Berlin was a political exclave that existed between 1949 and 1990.

After World War I, the town was separated from the rest of Weimar Germany, as the province of East Prussia had become an exclave.

Mecklenburg-Strelitz was a duchy in northern Germany, consisting of the eastern fifth of the historic Mecklenburg region, roughly corresponding with the present-day Mecklenburg-Strelitz district ( the former Lordship of Stargard ), and the western exclave of the former bishopric of Ratzeburg in modern Schleswig-Holstein.

However, the Treaty of Versailles following World War I restored West Prussia to Poland and made East Prussia an exclave of Weimar Germany, while the Memel Territory was detached and was annexed by Lithuania in 1923.

The exclave was a military zone, which was closed to foreigners ; Soviet citizens could only enter with special permission.

Brookline became an exclave of Norfolk County in 1873 when the neighboring town of West Roxbury was annexed by Boston ( thus leaving Norfolk County to join Suffolk County ) and Brookline refused to be annexed by Boston after the Brookline-Boston annexation debate of 1873.

Milngavie, originally in Stirlingshire, was in an area that became an exclave of Dunbartonshire on the orders of King David II ( 1324-1371 ).

This came about when Los Alamos County was created ; the land that became the exclave would have been part of Los Alamos but was excluded owing to its sacred status among the local Indians.

Alexandra Park, an exclave of the parish, was transferred to Hornsey, Middlesex at the same time.

The main oppidum of the Kerretes, commanding the whole country, was called Kere and was built on the hill above the modern-day village of Llívia ( a Spanish exclave in French territory ).

At the Treaty of the Pyrenees it was decided that Llívia would remain Spanish ( allegedly because the treaty stipulated that only villages were to be ceded to France, and Llívia was considered a city and not a village, due to its status as the ancient capital of Cerdanya ), so Llívia is now an exclave of Spain inside French territory.

There was a population of 1, 065 living on the exclave in the 2000 census.

One of its purposes was to prevent the crossing of the Berlin border between the GDR and the West German exclave of west-Berlin.

From 1667 to 1793 Jever was an exclave of Anhalt-Zerbst, and after Napoleonic occupation the westernmost exclave of Russia.

One urban district, South Hornsey, was an exclave of Middlesex within the County of London until 1900, when it was transferred to the latter county.