Some of the native abbots were also deposed, both at the council held near Easter and at a further one near Whitsun.

When at Whitsun the king proposed to discuss the measures to be taken against Gregory in a council of his nobles, only a few made their appearance ; the Saxons snatched at the golden opportunity for renewing their rebellion, and the anti-royalist party grew in strength from month to month.

King Henry dispossessed Ranulf of his lands at Whitsun in 1101, and the new Archbishop of York Gerard deposed him from his bishopric.

Ealdred at Whitsun 1068 performed the coronation of Matilda, William's wife.

Smoke-farthings are glossed as a composition for offerings made in Whitsun week by every man who occupied a house with a chimney, to the cathedral of the diocese in which he lived ; and that though Peter's pence was abolished in 1534, " on the grant of those monasteries to whom they had by custom become payable, they continued payable as appendant to the manors etc of the persons to whom granted ".

The mission departed for Rome in February 1095 and returned by Whitsun with a papal legate, Walter the Cardinal Bishop of Albano, who had Anselm's pallium.

At Whitsun in 1101 King Henry I, with Anselm's support, deprived Ranulf Flambard, Bishop of Durham, of the lands of the see of Durham, because Ranulf had defected to Henry's elder brother Robert Curthose, who also claimed the English throne.

The Bradford Pothole Club around Whitsun May Bank Holiday, and the Craven Pothole Club around August Bank Holiday each set up a winch above the shaft to provide a ride to the bottom and back out again for any member of the public who pays a fee.

At Whitsun in 1189, Coutances was a member of a commission appointed by the papal legate John of Anagni to arbitrate the dispute between King Henry II of England and his son, Richard, who was supported by King Philip II of France.

Following on behind were the clergy, who used the occasion to catch up on church business, and lay people combining a pilgrimage with a holiday excursion to Southwell's grand Whitsun Fair.

Absalon's last military exploit came in 1184, off Stralsund at Whitsun, when he soundly defeated a Pomeranian fleet that had attacked Denmark's vassal, Jaromir of Rügen.

By 25 May, Whitsun Monday, Sheppard and Lyon had filed through their manacles ; they removed a bar from the window and used their knotted bed-clothes to descend to ground level.

One of the earliest references to the rhyme in English is in the comedy The London Chaunticleres, printed in 1657, but probably written about 1636, in which the dairy woman Curds states that she had " danced the building of London-Bridge " at the Whitsun Ales in her youth, although no words or actions are mentioned.

He was chief reciter of the " Pwnc ", the catechism of the points of the Scriptures in his local chapel on Whitsun Sunday, and had done so the day before the first attack.

There is here given the whole service for every Sunday and week-day, the proper antiphons, responsories, hymns, and especially the course of daily Scripture-reading, averaging about twenty verses a day, and ( roughly ) arranged thus: for Advent, Isaiah ; Epiphany to Septuagesima, Pauline Epistles ; Lent, patristic homilies ( Genesis on Sundays ); Passion-tide, Jeremiah ; Easter to Whitsun, Acts, Catholic epistles and Apocalypse ; Whitsun to August, Samuel and Kings ; August to Advent, Wisdom books, Maccabees, Prophets.

The king was at Gloucester for Christmas 1080 and at Winchester for Whitsun in 1081, ceremonially wearing his crown on both occasions.

The feasts covered include the major feasts of the Virgin Mary ( including the votive masses for the Virgin for the four seasons of the church year ), All Saints and Corpus Christi ( 1605 ) followed by the feasts of the Temporale ( Christmas, Epiphany, Easter, Ascension, Whitsun and Feast of Saints Peter and Paul ( with additional items for St Peter's Chains and the Votive Mass of the Blessed Sacrament ) in 1607.

The feast is also called Whit Sunday, Whitsun, or Whit, especially in England, where the following Monday was traditionally a holiday.

Traditionally, Whit Fairs ( sometimes called Whitsun Ales ) took place.

Other customs such as morris dancing and cheese rolling are also associated with Whitsun.

The St David's Cathedral Festival runs through the Whitsun school holiday each year, and showcases some of the world ’ s best performers.

Whit Monday, the day after Whitsun, remained a holiday in the UK until 1971 when the movable holiday was replaced with the fixed Spring Bank Holiday in late May.

Traditionally, Whit Fairs ( sometimes called Whitsun Ales ) took place.

As the first holiday of the summer Whitsun was one of the favourite times in the traditional calendar and Whit Sunday or the following week was a time for celebration.

This took the form of fêtes, fairs, pageants and parades with Whitsun ales and Morris dancing in the south of England and Whit walks and wakes in the north.

* Whitsun Ale ( esp., English ), a county fair with competitions, morris dancing, and music, usually sponsored by a local pub or tavern.

Some of these artists included Adrian Green, Gene Gray, Caroll Barnes, Frank Treuting, Jean Caulfeild and Pauline Whitsun.

At Whitsun, on 21 May and the next days, three weddings were celebrated at Durham Place, the Duke of Northumberland's town mansion.

A maypole is a tall wooden pole erected as a part of various European folk festivals, particularly on May Day, or Pentecost ( Whitsun ) although in some countries it is instead erected at Midsummer.

The custom of combining it with a village or town fete, that usually takes place on 30 April, 1 May or at Pentecost ( Whitsun ), is widespread.

* July 30-Philip Larkin makes a train journey from Hull to Grantham which inspires his poem The Whitsun Weddings.

Another Nottingham sweep insisted they washed three times a year, for Christmas, Whitsun and the Goose Fair.

This council confirmed the decision of the earlier Roman synod, and clearly indicated that the participants saw St Athanasius as the lawful Patriarch of Alexandria.

The ritual not only saw the girls become women, but also allowed their mothers to become members of the council, a position of some authority.

The council saw the final condemnation of Constantine II, who was beaten and had his tongue removed before being returned to his monastic cell.

And since the traditional Fon, as most traditional African peoples, saw the visible world as only a part of a larger reality that included the unseen and spirit world, ' messengers ' would be sent to the ' council of the dead kings ,' and other ancestors to determine whether these important powers were in concurrence with the policies and justice meted out.

Until 2008, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne were the only departments where the Communist Party had a majority in the general councils but the 2008 cantonal elections saw the socialists become the strongest group at the Seine-Saint-Denis general council ( while the Communist Party gained a majority in Allier ).

Other parts of Wimbledon Park which had previously escaped being built upon saw local authority estates constructed by the borough council to house some of those who had lost their homes.

Arendt's interest in such a " council system ," which she saw as the only alternative to the state, continued all her life.

The May 2010 local government elections saw the Labour Party become the council largest party, following the loss of three seats by the Conservative Party, two to the Liberal Democrats and one to Labour.

By this time Carrick had been badly injured by a horse-kick but the loss of his powerful ally, Douglas, saw a turnaround in magnate support in favour of his younger brother Robert, Earl of Fife and in December 1388 the council transferred the lieutenancy to Fife.

Due to the increase of population, the threshold of 35, 000 inhabitants had been passed and Ninove saw an increase from 31 to 33 council members for the communal elections, which were held on Sunday October 8, 2006.

When the assembly fined Dionysius for his seditious language, Philistus stepped in to pay Dionysius ' fines, with the promise to continue paying for them so long as the council saw fit to issue them.

Critics saw it as an unrealistic ultimatum designed to provide the U. S. with a cause for war, and it met considerable opposition in the security council, with opponents including the permanent members France, the People's Republic of China, and Germany.

The council members examined and studied legal projects, supervised the magistrates and saw that daily administrative details were on the right path.

The 3 June 2012 saw an exceptional reunion of the town council wher Manuel Valls resigned as mayor after being nominated as Minister of the Interior in the new socialist government.

At the council of Lords held by James, Rochester defended the petition and declared that he saw no hope for king and country except through a Parliament.

In February 2008, the Port Phillip Council's approval of the proposed Triangle site development despite over 5, 000 written objections ( representing over a quarter of the population of St Kilda ) caused an uproar in St Kilda which saw media attention across Victoria with local resident lobby groups including Save St Kilda and UnChain St Kilda banding thousands of residents together in protest and enlisting the help of celebrities including Dave Hughes, Magda Subzanski and Rachel Griffiths in their fight against the local council.

Members of the BNP have previously won a council seat in the town in November 2002 following elections in May which saw three of their colleagues elected in nearby Burnley.

August 10, 1991 saw a redrawing of districts for city council, so that minority groups could be better represented in the city council.

The 1920s and 1930s saw extensive redevelopment of the area, with many of the older slums being replaced by new council houses.

This saw the old corporation nomenclature abolished and the council reconstituted as Liverpool City Council.

The party lost a council seat in 2001 and saw its support reduced.

In these, the Soviet leadership saw the seeds of council communism or even corporatism.

Latham's term as mayor saw radical changes introduced to the council, with large spending on public works, to be paid for by a combination of loans and efficiencies achieved from outsourcing many council services.