Alfred sought to remedy this through an ambitious court-centred programme of translating into English the books he deemed " most necessary for all men to know.

Some of their works are considered precursors of archaeoastronomy ; antiquarians interpreted the astronomical orientation of the ruins that dotted the English countryside as William Stukeley did of Stonehenge in 1740, while John Aubrey in 1678 and Henry Chauncy in 1700 sought similar astronomical principles underlying the orientation of churches.

The out of print Random House publication of The Talmud: The Steinsaltz Edition is widely regarded as the most accurate and least redacted of any English language edition and is sought after on that basis by scholars and collectors.

French and English basses are also sought by players of the highest caliber.

English Dominicans sought to gain a full knowledge of Christ through an imitation of His life.

English Dominican mystics sought through this love to become images of God.

Elizabeth therefore sought a Protestant solution that would not offend Catholics too greatly while addressing the desires of English Protestants ; she would not tolerate the more radical Puritans though, who were pushing for far-reaching reforms.

Sharp sought " old world " English and Scottish ballads passed down to the region's inhabitants from their British ancestors.

" The bail money was lost in June 2012 when a judge ordered it to be forfeited, as Assange had sought to escape the jurisdiction of the English courts by entering the London embassy of Ecuador.

Due to their specialized training, English longbowmen were sought as mercenaries in other European countries, most notably in the Italian city-states and in Spain.

Spellings in American English have been highly influenced by lexicographers like Noah Webster, who sought to create a standardized form of English that was independent of British English.

If the right sought to be enforced is inconsistent with either of these, the English municipal courts cannot recognize it.

In the 1760s, William Blackstone sought to codify the English common law.

Its policy emphasizes the concept of an Ibero-American community, essentially the renewal of the historically liberal concept of " Hispano-Americanismo " ( or Hispanic as it is often referred to in English ), which has sought to link the Iberian peninsula to the Spanish-speaking countries in Central and South America through language, commerce, history and culture.

The Swedes sought to expand their influence by creating an agricultural ( tobacco ) and fur-trading colony to bypass French and English merchants.

The book also sought to instruct the English, who thought of themselves as vastly superior to the Native Americans, that they were mistaken.

A location in the west of the archipelago was thus sought ; the Straits of Malacca were strategic, but had become dangerous following the Portuguese conquest and the first permanent VOC settlement in Banten was controlled by a powerful local ruler and subject to stiff competition from Chinese and English traders.

The Calvert family, who founded Maryland partly as a refuge for English Catholics, sought enactment of the law to protect Catholic settlers and those of other religions that did not conform to the dominant Anglicanism of Britain and her colonies.

" No worse deed for the English race was done than this was, since they first sought out the land of Britain.

The Diggers took their name from the original English Diggers ( 1649 – 50 ) led by Gerrard Winstanley, and they sought to create a mini-society free of money and capitalism.

In consequence, Foss actively promoted the performance and sought publication of music by Ralph Vaughan Williams, William Walton, Constant Lambert, Alan Rawsthorne, Peter Warlock ( Philip Heseltine ), Edmund Rubbra and other English composers.

Seven years after the Dartmouth College opinion, the Supreme Court decided Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts v. Town of Pawlet ( 1823 ), in which an English corporation dedicated to missionary work, with land in the U. S., sought to protect its rights to that land under colonial-era grants against an effort by the state of Vermont to revoke the grants.

Because of these involvements in the matter at stake, Boniface lacked the impartiality that is supposed to be an essential qualification for the position of arbiter, and in retrospect that would seem to be sufficient reason why the English embassies to the Curia proved so fruitless.

Cranmer was punished for his work in the English Reformation by being burned at the stake on 21 March 1556.

She was captured by the Burgundians, transferred to the English in exchange for money, put on trial by the pro-English Bishop of Beauvais Pierre Cauchon for charges of " insubordination and heterodoxy ", and was burned at the stake for heresy when she was 19 years old.

In English law, high treason was punishable by being hanged, drawn and quartered ( men ) or burnt at the stake ( women ), or beheading ( royalty and nobility ).

* July 16 – Anne Askew, English Protestant ( burned at the stake ) ( b. 1521 )

* April 11 – Edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher ( burned at the stake ) ( b. 1566 )

* February 4 – John Rogers, English clergyman ( burned at the stake ) ( b. c. 1500 )

* February 8 – Laurence Saunders, English clergyman ( burned at the stake )

** John Hooper, English churchman ( burned at the stake ) ( b. c. 1497 )

** Rowland Taylor, English Protestant martyr ( burned at the stake ) ( b. 1510 )

** Hugh Latimer, English clergyman ( burned at the stake ) ( b. c. 1487 )

** Nicholas Ridley, English clergyman ( burned at the stake )

* November 22 – John Lambert, English Protestant martyr ( burned at stake )

* March – William Sawtrey, English Lollard martyr ( burned at the stake )

By contrast, torturous executions were typically public, and woodcuts of English prisoners being hanged, drawn and quartered show large crowds of spectators, as do paintings of Spanish auto-da-fé executions, in which heretics were burned at the stake.

Rouen became the capital city of English power in occupied France and when the duke of Bedford, John of Lancaster bought Joan of Arc from his ally, the duke of Burgundy who had been keeping her in jail since May 1430, she was logically sent to this city for Christmas 1430 and after a long trial by a church court, sentenced to be burned at the stake on 30 May 1431 in this city, where most inhabitants supported the duke of Burgundy, Joan of Arc's royal enemy.

The Dutch diplomats realised what was at stake: one of the departing ambassadors said, " The English are about to attack a mountain of gold ; we are about to attack a mountain of iron.

The remaining Lordship that was actually controlled by the English king shrank accordingly, and as parts of its perimeter in counties Meath and Kildare were fenced or ditched, it became known as the Pale, deriving from the Latin word " palus ", a stake, or, synecdochically, a fence.

When the English captured Joan of Arc in 1431, Beaufort presided at her trial before she was burned at the stake.

Joan was burned at the stake when Burgundy handed her over to the English.

Or is she merely an apt pupil of General Bounine ( Brynner ), a recovering amnesiac with a striking resemblance who has been cleverly groomed by the émigré general to stake a claim to 10 million pounds left by the Tsar in an English bank?

The word " Stock " in the common name of this species refers not to the stock of trade, but comes from the Old English " stocc " meaning " stump, post, stake, tree trunk, log ,".

Around the English-speaking world, educators began to realize the need to “ guard against our prejudice of thinking of print as the only real medium that the English teacher has a stake in .” A whole generation of educators began to not only acknowledge film and television as new, legitimate forms of expression and communication, but also explored practical ways to promote serious inquiry and analysis —- in higher education, in the family, in schools and in society.

The English burned her at the stake on 30 May 1431.