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It contains some of Chaplin's most famous gags, such as the Tramp eating his shoe and the " Dance of the Rolls ", and he later said it was the film he would most like to be remembered for.
As with his former suits, Oxford was again unsuccessful ; during this time he was listed on the Pipe Rolls as owing £ 20 for the subsidy.
The first to speak was the Speaker of the House of Commons ( later Master of the Rolls ), Sir Edward Philips, who described the intent behind the plot in lurid detail.
HOTOL, for Horizontal Take-Off and Landing, was a British air-breathing space shuttle effort by Rolls Royce and British Aerospace.
Designed as a single-stage-to-orbit ( SSTO ) reusable winged launch vehicle, it was to be fitted with a unique air-breathing engine, the RB545 called the Swallow, to be developed by Rolls Royce.
The P51 Mustang was the subject of a 30 minute episode entitled " The Cadillac of the Skies " in reference to its exceptional performance and how it started off as a British purchase as a low level attack fighter into the powerful long range bomber escort that it would eventually become in the Air War in Europe through a combination of being fitted with the Rolls Royce Merlin and the fitting drop tanks that allowed to escort the bombers of the United States 8th Air Force all the way into occupied Europe and back.
He was appointed Master of the Rolls from 1472 to 1479.
The compilation of the Hundred Rolls was followed shortly after by the issue of Westminster I ( 1275 ), which asserted the royal prerogative and outlined restrictions on liberties.
In 1904, Charles Rolls established a new car making business with Henry Royce, but in 1910 he was killed in an aeroplane crash at the age of 32 ; he is commemorated by a statue in Agincourt Square.
His maternal grandfather was Herbert Cozens-Hardy, the Liberal MP for North Norfolk who became both the Master of the Rolls and Baron Cozens-Hardy on 1 July 1914.
Charles Stewart Rolls ( 27 August 1877 – 12 July 1910 ) was a motoring and aviation pioneer.
After attending Mortimer Vicarage Preparatory School in Berkshire, he was educated at Eton College where his developing interest in engines earned him the nickname dirty Rolls.
Rolls was a tall man, standing at about 1. 95 m ( 6 ' 5 ").
Rolls was introduced to Henry Royce by a friend at the Automobile Club, Henry Edmunds, who was also a director of Royce Ltd. Edmunds showed him Royce's car and arranged the historic meeting between Rolls and Royce at the Midland Hotel, Manchester, on 4 May 1904.
In spite of his preference for three or four cylinder cars, Rolls was impressed with the two-cylinder Royce 10 and in a subsequent agreement of 23 December 1904 agreed to take all the cars Royce could make.
The first Rolls-Royce car, the Rolls-Royce 10 hp, was unveiled at the Paris Salon in December 1904, although in the early advertising it was the name of Rolls that was emphasised over that of Royce.
But by 1909 Rolls ' interest in the business was waning, and at the end of the year he resigned as Technical Managing Director and became a non-executive director.
Rolls was also a pioneer aviator and initially, balloonist, making over 170 balloon ascents.

Rolls and born
Regarding the origin of the name " Hempstead ", Hempstead founder John Carman was born in 1606 in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England, on ancestral land recorded in the 2nd historic census of England ( under Edward the First ), the Rotuli Hundredorum ( Hundred Rolls ) AD 1273 as being owned by his direct ancestor Henry Carman.
Harry Kenneth Woolf, Baron Woolf, PC, FBA, (), born 2 May 1933, was Master of the Rolls from 1996 until 2000 and Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from 2000 until 2005.
And with that the " Home of Throwed Rolls " was born.
* Thomas Rochfort ( died 1522 ) Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral and Master of the Rolls in Ireland, born at Killadoon, where his father was Lord of the Manor.
The three light window is dedicated to the Honourable J J Carnagie born 8 July 1807 died 18 January 1892, placed in the church by Henry Allen Rolls ( brother of the co-founder of Rolls Royce Limited ) in 1892.
Thomas de Cottingham, Master of the Rolls in Ireland, was born in the village about 1300.
Dalyell was born in Linlithgowshire ; the son of Thomas Dalyell of the House of the Binns, Linlithgowshire ; head of a cadet branch of the family of the Earls of Carnwath, and of Janet, daughter of the 1st Lord Bruce of Kinloss, Master of the Rolls in England.
* Nicholas Phillips, Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers ( born 1938 ), Master of the Rolls, 2000 – 2005, and Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from 2005

Rolls and Square
Image: MonRolls. jpg | Statue of Rolls in Agincourt Square, Monmouth.
With the urban expansion of the metropolis these holdings were in turn let out on building licences or shorter leases to others by the Rolls family at considerable profit to them, notably the desirable residencial development in the 1750s in the area of what is now Surrey Square and the Paragon which were designed by their Surveyor Michael Searles ( a road near this is named after him ).

Rolls and London
London, 1880, Rolls Series, no.
Rolls graduated from Cambridge University-where he won a Half Blue at cycling-in 1898, and began working on the steam yacht Santa Maria followed by a position at the London and North Western Railway in Crewe.
Photograph on the front page of the Illustrated London News, 16 July 1910, showing the wreckage of the plane crash which killed Rolls
London: Rolls Series, 1889.
Several artists worked on the crosses, as the " Expense Rolls " of the Crown show, with some of the work being divided between the main figures, sent from London, and the framework, made locally.
The origin of the name " Notting Hill " is uncertain though an early version appears in the Patent Rolls of 1356 as Knottynghull, while an 1878 text, Old and New London, reports that the name derives from a manor in Kensington called " Knotting-Bernes ,", " Knutting-Barnes ," or " Nutting-barns ", and goes on to quote from a court record during Henry VIII's reign that " the manor called Notingbarons, alias Kensington, in the parish of Paddington, was held of the Abbot of Westminster.
* Eddius, Vita Wilfridi ( James Raine, Historians of Church of York, Rolls Series, London, 1879 – 1894 ), 19, 20, 24, 34, 39, 44
Edmunds was a friend of Charles Rolls who had a car showroom in London selling imported models and showed him his car and arranged the historic meeting between Rolls and Royce at the Midland Hotel, Manchester, on 4 May 1904.
The best edition of Roger's works is that of H. O. Coxe ( four volumes, London, 1841 – 1824 ); there is another ( from 1154 ) in the Rolls Series by H. G. Hewlett ( three volumes, 1886 – 1898 ).
J. C. Robertson ( Rolls Series, London ,; 1875 – 85 ; Part I, CXC, 1475 – 88 ).
He also had a fascination with most forms of transport, driving his Rolls at high speed around the streets of London.
For the Rolls Series he edited Letters and Papers illustrative of the Reigns of Richard III and Henry VII ( London, 1861 – 1863 ), and Memorials of Henry VII ( London, 1858 ).
It was first edited by John Selden in 1623 and, with Eadmer's Vita Anselmi, was edited by Martin Rule for the Rolls Series ( London, 1884 ).
The PRO was placed under the control of the Master of the Rolls, a senior judge whose job had originally included responsibility for keeping the records of the Chancery Court, and was originally located in the mediaeval Rolls Chapel ( the former Domus Conversorum, a chapel for Jews who had converted to Christianity ), on Chancery Lane at the boundary of the City of London with Westminster.
The best edition is the complete one edited with introduction by Henry Richards Luard for the Rolls series ( 3 vols., London, 1890 ).
In 1896 appeared the Red Book of the Exchequer ( Rolls series ), which, with the Book of Fees ( Public Record Office ) and the Pipe Rolls ( published by the Record Commission and the Pipe Roll Society ), provides the chief record authority on the subject ; but the editor misdated many of the scutages, and JH Round in his Studies on the Red Book of the Exchequer ( privately issued ) and his Commune of London and other Studies ( 1899 ) severely criticized his conclusions.
Its styling was reportedly inspired by GM styling chief Bill Mitchell's visit to London during the period, when he was struck by the sight of an elegant, custom-bodied Rolls Royce in the fog.
The manuscript of this is in the university library at Cambridge, and has been edited for the Rolls Series ( No. 30 ) by John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor ( 2 vols., London, 1863 – 69 ).
As Speaker he visited Charles II at Breda, and addressed him in very flattering terms on his return to London ; but he refused to accede to the King's demand that he should dismiss Burnet from his position as chaplain to the Master of the Rolls, and in parliament he strongly denounced any relaxation of the laws against papists.
A statue of him stands in the former Rolls Chapel in The Maughan Library, King's College London.

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