* Bernard Cornwell's series of historical novels, The Saxon Stories: The Last Kingdom, The Pale Horseman, The Lords of the North and Sword Song.

Against this reality on the ground, O ' Neill had little influence on the Lords of the Pale in Leinster, and his army had to feed itself by plunder.

O ' Neill issued a proclamation to the Pale Lords on 15 November 1599, many of whom were Roman Catholic, protesting that his campaign was not for personal power but only for the freedom of the Catholic religion.

The Lords started as a group of barons in the Lordship of Ireland that was generally limited to the Pale, a variable area around Dublin subject to English law.

The Catholic gentry near Dublin, known as the " Lords of the Pale ", issued their Remonstrance to the king on 17 March 1642 at Trim, County Meath.

Bellings in his history of the period cites his main reasons for joining the rebellion as ; a refusal on the part of the authorities to arm the Catholic population to put down the rebellion or even in self-defence, the decision of the Lords Justices in Dublin to suspend the Irish Parliament and thus to avoid redress of Catholic grievances, and finally the victory of the insurgents at Julianstown, which brought the rebellion into the Pale and forced the Pale nobility to either join the Catholic rebels or to be treated by them as enemies.

In 2009, the House of Lords found Fisher to be joint-author and co-owner of Procol Harum's iconic song ' A Whiter Shade of Pale ' by virtue of his contribution to the song in the form of his organ solo, despite waiting nearly 40 years since its release to make a claim.

Originally exercised by a single person, the office of Lord High Admiral was from the 18th century onward almost invariably put " in commission " and exercised by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, who sat on the Board of Admiralty.

In the aftermath of the debate Bentinck resigned the leadership and feuded with Stanley, leader in the Lords and overall leader, who had opposed the measure and directed the party whips — in the Commons — to oppose the measure as well.

Lord Aberdare was one of the ninety-two elected hereditary peers that were allowed to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999. the title is held by his son, the fifth Baron, who succeeded in 2005 and was elected to the House of Lords in 2009.

Many of the extras were recruited by Amber Rudd who is described in the credits as " Aristocracy Co-ordinator "— among those used were Lords Burlington and Woolton.

It is also hinted that the Celestial Intervention Agency will evolve into the beings of pure thought known as the Celestis, who observe the war from outside this dimension ( the Last Parliament in which they sit resembles the Panopticon on Gallifrey and the closest anyone gets to describing them is similar to the Time Lords ' robes ).

The British-Irish Council is the expression of a relationship that at the origin of the Anglo-Irish process in 1981 was sometimes given the name Iona, islands of the North Atlantic, and sometimes Council of the Isles, with its evocation of the Lords of the Isles of the 14th and 15th centuries who spanned the North Channel.

The Lords set a date for the trial while the Commons appoints managers, who act as prosecutors in the trial.

The King believed that Puritans ( or Dissenters ) encouraged by five vociferous members of the House of Commons, John Pym, John Hampden, Denzil Holles, Sir Arthur Haselrig and William Strode along with Viscount Mandeville ( the future Earl of Manchester ) who sat in the House of Lords, had encouraged the Scots to invade England in the recent Bishops ' Wars and that they were intent on turning the London mob against him.

The Treasury Commission ceased to meet late in the 18th century but has survived, albeit with very different functions: the First Lord of the Treasury is now the Prime Minister, the Second Lord is the Chancellor of the Exchequer ( and actually in charge of the Treasury ), and the Junior Lords are government Whips maintaining party discipline in the House of Commons ; they no longer have any duties related to the Treasury, though when subordinate legislation requires the consent of the Treasury it is still two of the Junior Lords who sign on its behalf.

Neither the Sovereign nor the House of Lords had any meaningful influence over who was elected to the Commons in 1997 or in deciding whether or not Blair would become Prime Minister.

For most of the history of the Upper House, Lords Temporal were land owners who held their estates, titles and seats as an hereditary right passed down from one generation to the next in some cases for centuries.

Representing the landed aristocracy, Lords Temporal were generally Tory ( later Conservative ) who wanted to maintain the status quo and resisted progressive measures such as extending the franchise.

Its membership is mostly made up of senior politicians who are ( or have been ) members of either the House of Commons or the House of Lords.

The chief officer of the body is the Lord President of the Council, who is the fourth highest Great Officer of State, a member of the Cabinet, and normally, the Leader of either the House of Lords or the House of Commons.

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Furthermore, while the courts in the United Kingdom are undoubtedly amongst the most independent in the world, the Law Lords, who were the final arbiters of judicial disputes in the UK sat simultaneously in the House of Lords, the upper house of the legislature, although this arrangement ceased in 2009 when the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom came into existence.

Until 2005, the Lord Chancellor fused the Legislature, Executive and Judiciary, as he was the ex officio Speaker of the House of Lords, a Government Minister who sat in Cabinet and was head of the Lord Chancellor's Department which administered the courts, the justice system and appointed judges, and was the head of the Judiciary in England and Wales and sat as a judge on the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords, the highest domestic court in the entire United Kingdom, and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the senior tribunal court for parts of the Commonwealth.

The biggest argument Powell and Heath had during Powell's time in the Shadow Cabinet was over a dispute over the role of Black Rod, who would go to the Commons to summon them to the Lords to hear the Royal Assent of Bills.

On 23 May 1618, four Catholic Lords Regent, namely Count Jarolslaw Martinitz, Count Vilem Slavata of Chlum, Adam II von Sternberg ( who was the supreme burgrave ), and Matthew Leopold Popel Lobcowitz ( who was the grand prior ), arrived at the Bohemian Chancellory at 8: 30am.

He also famously allied with the Tory right-winger Enoch Powell to scupper the government's plan to abolish the voting rights of hereditary peers and create a House of Lords comprising only life peers – a " seraglio of eunuchs " as Foot put it.

Conceptualised as the " Horse Lords of Rohan " allied with Gondor in early drafts of 1939, the Rohirrim took their final form in 1942 when about one third of The Lord of the Rings was completed.

In some spinoff media, the Time Lords are also allied with less developed " Temporal Powers.

A recent example of the House of Lords reconsidering an earlier decision occurred in 1999, when the judgment in the case on the extradition of the former President of Chile Augusto Pinochet was overturned on the grounds that one of the Lords on the committee, Lord Hoffmann, was a Director of a charity closely allied with Amnesty International, which was a party to the appeal and had an interest to achieve a particular result.

* The " Royalist democrats " ( later known as " Constitutionals " or " Monarchicals ") allied with Jacques Necker, inclined toward arranging France along lines similar to the British constitutional model with a House of Lords and a House of Commons:

Traci Lords was among the actresses auditioning for the film, saying in 2001, " I didn't get the part but I clicked with Bruce ," with whom she would later work as a guest star in the TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.

The brethren were pleased with the Emperor's letter, but Anthony did not pay any attention to it, and he said to them, " The books of God, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, commands us every day, but we do not heed what they tell us, and we turn our backs on them.

From 1966 to 2009, this power lay with the House of Lords, granted by the Practice Statement of 1966.

Simultaneous movements like the Young Lords, to empower youth, question patriarchy, democratize the Church, end police brutality, and end the Vietnam War, all intersected with other ethnic nationalist, peace, countercultural, and feminist movements.

The House of Lords of the UK parliament had, for example through the 1990s, over 700 members with a hereditary right to being a lawgiver ; this practice was reformed in 2004, still some 92 parliamentary seats are set aside for hereditary peers as of 2012.

The plot of the play involved the Time Lords putting Davros on trial, with Nyder as a witness.

The British House of Lords Select Committee on Medical Ethics defines euthanasia as " a deliberate intervention undertaken with the express intention of ending a life, to relieve intractable suffering ".

" Definitions such as that offered by the House of Lords Select Committee on Medical Ethics take this path, where euthanasia is defined as " a deliberate intervention undertaken with the express intention of ending a life, to relieve intractable suffering.

This text recounts a prophetic dream by Nebuchadnezzar, in which the previous empires had been Babylonian, Persian, Grecian and Roman ; the last empire, they concluded, would be established by the returning Jesus as King of kings and Lord of Lords to reign with his saints on earth for a thousand years.

This prevents all outsiders ( with hostile intent, or otherwise ) from approaching the planet and allows the Time Lords to maintain their status of absolute neutrality.

Subsequently, in " Dalek " ( 2005 ), it is revealed that the last great Time War was fought between the Time Lords and the Daleks, ending in the obliteration of both sides and with only two apparent survivors ; the Doctor and a lone Dalek that had somehow fallen through time and crashed on Earth.

The Time Lords use these figures to understand the concepts they represent and in some cases make deals with them and become their chosen champions.

Hints about this future war are dropped in several books earlier in the series beginning with Lawrence Miles's Alien Bodies and the war itself plays out as it would have originally done in Miles ' Faction Paradox series in which certain names are changed for copyright reasons ( the Time Lords become the Great Houses and Gallifrey becomes the Home World ).

At the novel's end, the question of whether or not the Time Lords will be restored remains unanswered, although if the events of the novel are to tie in with later events in the TV series it must be assumed that Gallifrey was at some point restored, only to be destroyed again during the events of the Time War.

In the 2005 ITV programme The Gunpowder Plot: Exploding The Legend, a full-size replica of the House of Lords was built and destroyed with barrels of gunpowder.

In a meeting with Indonesian MP Hayono Isman, the Lords stated that they wanted to improve the relationship between the two countries.

By May 1914 the Bill had complied with the requirements set down by the Parliament Act 1911, allowing the government to force its enactment over the heads of the unionist-dominated House of Lords.

The most recent cases of impeachment dealt with Warren Hastings, Governor-General of India between 1773 and 1786 ( impeached in 1788 ; the Lords found him not guilty in 1795 ), and Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, First Lord of the Admiralty, in 1806 ( acquitted ).

In March 2009, the House of Lords Constitution Committee criticised UK government proposals in the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill dealing with the Common Travel Area, concluding that " the policy-making process ... has not been informed by any real appreciation of the constitutional status of the Crown dependencies or the rights of free movement of Islanders ".

It reorganized the English court system to establish the High Court and the Court of Appeal and also originally provided for the abolition of the judicial functions of the House of Lords with respect to England but, under the act, it would have retained those functions in relation to Scotland and Ireland for the time being.

" Hitherto Monk had continued to make solemn protestations of his affection and fidelity to the Commonwealth interest, against a King and House of Lords ; but the new militia being settled, and a Convention, calling themselves a Parliament and fit for his purpose, being met at Westminster, he sent to such lords as had sat with the Parliament till 1648, to return to the place where they used to sit, which they did, upon assurance from him, that no others should be permitted to sit with them ; which promise he also broke, and let in not only such as had deserted to Oxford, but the late created lords.