The term took on its present meaning from a group of ministers of King Charles II of England ( Sir Thomas Clifford, Lord Arlington, the Duke of Buckingham, Lord Ashley, and Lord Lauderdale ), whose initial letters coincidentally spelled CABAL, and who were the signatories of the public Treaty of Dover that allied England to France in a prospective war against the Netherlands.

Radclyffe's prominence in the kingdom was shown by his inclusion among the signatories to the letters patent of 16 June 1553 settling the crown on Lady Jane Grey as Edward's successor ; but he nevertheless won favour with Queen Mary, who employed him in arranging her marriage with Philip II of Spain, and who created him Baron Fitzwalter in August 1553.

In July 1553, after King Edward's death, Dudley was one of the signatories of the letters patent that set Lady Jane Grey on the Throne of England, and took arms against Mary Tudor, alongside his father.

" Media organisations and the police received many letters and postcards purportedly written by the killer, who was dubbed " Jack the Ripper " after one of the signatories.

Rebs who owned slaves occasionally would include in their letters admonitions or greetings to members of the Negro community.

The systems used in AAC include gestures, hand signals, photographs, pictures, line drawings, words and letters, which can be used alone or in combination to communicate.

The largest alphabets in the narrow sense include Kabardian and Abkhaz ( for Cyrillic ), with 58 and 56 letters, respectively, and Slovak ( for the Latin script ), with 46.

The manuscripts include twelve letters which are not included in the printed edition of Minḥat Ḳenaot.

Athanasius ' letters include one " Letter Concerning the Decrees of the Council of Nicaea " ( De Decretis ), which is an account of the proceedings of that council, and another letter in the year 367 which was the first known listing of the New Testament including all those books now accepted everywhere as the New Testament.

These letters were intended to reach men and women of her circle, increasingly widening her audience to include figures in authority as she begged for peace between the republics and principalities of Italy and for the return of the Papacy from Avignon to Rome.

Labeling series that may be used include ordinary Arabic numerals ( 1, 2, 3, ...), Roman numerals ( I, II, III, ... or i, ii, iii, ...), or letters ( A, B, C, ... or a, b, c, ...).

Examples include letters for Boggle, directions for Warhammer Fantasy Battle, playing card symbols for poker dice, and instructions for sexual acts using sex dice.

At later ages symptoms can include a difficulty identifying or generating rhyming words, or counting syllables in words ( phonological awareness ), a difficulty segmenting words into individual sounds, or blending sounds to make words, a difficulty with word retrieval or naming problems, commonly very poor spelling which has been called dysorthographia ( orthographic coding ), and tendencies to omit or add letters or words when writing and reading are considered classic signs.

Other uses include the Early Cyrillic titlo ( ◌҃ ) and the Hebrew gershayim ( ״ ), which, respectively, mark abbreviations or acronyms, and Greek diacritical marks, which showed that letters of the alphabet were being used as numerals.

These include é, ö, ü, å and recently also letters like š, ł, and ć.

The main arguments in favor of the authenticity of Galatians include its style and themes, which are common to the core letters of the Pauline corpus.

To all this activity must be added numerous writings of a miscellaneous nature, addresses, letters, and the like, and exegetical works that extended over the whole of his life and that include both commentaries and treatises on Biblical archaeology.

Letters that arose from Gamma include the Roman C and G and the Cyrillic letters Г and Ґ.

The 41 letters we know today include letters for non-Greek sounds which may have been added by Saint Cyril, as well as ligatures added in the 12th century under the influence of Cyrillic, as Glagolitic lost its dominance.

Graphemes include alphabetic letters, typographic ligatures, Chinese characters, numerical digits, punctuation marks, and other individual symbols of any of the world's writing systems.

Letters that arose from this letter include the Roman I and J and the Cyrillic І ( І, і ), Yi ( Ї, ї ), Je ( Ј, ј ), and iotified letters ( e. g. Yu ( Ю, ю )).

Important topics addressed in these letters include ecclesiology, the sacraments, and the role of bishops.

Important works from the 100s include the Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius, a collection of anecdotes and reports of literary discussions among his friends ; and the letters of the orator Marcus Cornelius Fronto to Marcus Aurelius.

Where words can be written either with or without matres lectionis, spellings that include these letters are called malē ( Hebrew ) or plene ( Latin ), meaning " full ", while spellings without them are called ḥaser or defective.

" It did, however, also include 20 pages of previously unpublished interviews and letters, 17 drawings by Patterson of the encounters described in the text, 5 hand-drawn maps ( rare in subsequent Bigfoot books ), and almost 20 photos and illustrations from other sources.

His Latin writings include scholarly works, introspective essays, letters, and more poetry.

The QWERTY layout became popular with the success of the Remington No. 2 of 1878, the first typewriter to include both upper and lower case letters, via a shift key.

The texts are accounts of the state revenues, but they also include royal letters, Sumerian-Eblaite dictionaries, school texts and diplomatic documents, like treaties between Ebla and other towns of the region.

He ordained further that some should be called " Abbreviators of the Upper Bar " ( Abbreviatores de Parco Majori ; the name derived from a space in the chancery, surrounded by a grating, in which the officials sat, which is called higher or lower ( major or minor ) according to the proximity of the seats to that of the vice-chancellor ), the others of the Lower Bar ( Abbreviatores de Parco Minori ); that the former should sit upon a slightly raised portion of the chamber, separated from the rest of the hall or chamber by lattice work, assist the Cardinal Vice-Chancellor, subscribe the letters and have the principal part in examining, revising, and expediting the apostolic letters to be issued with the leaden seal ; that the latter, however, should sit among the apostolic writers upon benches in the lower part of the chamber, and their duty was to carry the signed schedules or supplications to the prelates of the upper bar.

Many of these letters were written to the children of her former governess Annie Carter Moore, particularly to her eldest son Noel who was often ill.

The letters, part of a larger and somewhat one-sided correspondence in which Heger frequently appears not to have replied, reveal she had been in love with a married man, although they are complex and have been interpreted in numerous ways, including as an example of literary self-dramatisation and an expression of gratitude from a former pupil.

His wife managed to get him released from prison, and he wrote letters to his former wife, and told her he never ceased loving her.

He went so far as to write personal letters to exiled former Soviet officers and diplomats such as Mikhail Ostrovsky to return voluntarily to the Soviet Union, reassuring them that they would not face retribution from authorities ( they did ).

He strove to effect the latter by means of letters and councils, and the former by force of arms.

Among Innocent I's letters is one to Jerome and another to John II, Bishop of Jerusalem, regarding annoyances to which the former had been subjected by the Pelagians at Bethlehem.

The details of Gerbert's armillary sphere are revealed in letters from Gerbert to his former student and monk Remi of Trèves, his colleague Constantine, the abbot of Micy, as well as the accounts of his former student and French nobleman Richer, who served as a monk in Rheims.

He left letters to Wilson's mother, Bowers ' mother, a string of notables including his former commander Sir George Egerton, his own mother and his wife.

However, according to an article by former Space Shuttle program Director Wayne Hale on his official NASA blog, the space shuttle program, in preparation for the 2010 shutdown, has already terminated many specialty parts and materials contracts, many with small businesses whose only customer may have been the shuttle program and who closed shop and retired upon receiving their termination letters ; as a result, it would be difficult and expensive at this point to extend the shuttle program, and there would be a lag of at least a year ( without flights ) before exhausted exotic parts and supplies could be replaced.

One night, he reveals the evidence and notes that George was in possession of many letters that his former wife wrote.

In letters patent dated 28 May 1937, King George VI specifically denied the style HRH to the wife of HRH The Duke of Windsor, the former King Edward VIII.

The difference is that the languages of the former often need extra space going atop the capital letters for accent marks ( e. g. Ñ, Â, Ö, É ), but English doesn't need this.

Hereditary peerage dignities may be created with writs of summons or by letters patent ; the former method is now obsolete.

# The desire to preserve original Sanskrit and Pali spellings also produces a particularly large number of duplicate ways of spelling sounds at the end of a syllable ( where Thai is strictly limited in the sounds that can occur but Sanskrit allowed all possibilities, especially once former final / a / was deleted ), as well as a number of silent letters.

The call letters were changed to WABC-TV on March 1, 1953, after ABC merged its operations with United Paramount Theaters, a firm which was broken off from former parent company Paramount Pictures by decree of the U. S. government.

However, under letters patent the former city council area was to continue to be styled the " City of Rochester " to " perpetuate the ancient name " and to recall " the long history and proud heritage of the said city ".

This is particularly confusing with letters which can take either diacritic: for example, the consonant is written as " ş " in Turkish but in Romanian, and Romanian writers will sometimes use the former instead of the latter because of insufficient font or character-set support.

In his letters home to his wife, Rupert Edward Inglis ( 1863 – 1916 ), who was a former rugby international and now a Forces Chaplain, describes passing through the town of Albert: We went through the place today ( 2 October 1915 ) where the Virgin Statue at the top of the Church was hit by a shell in January.

Immediately after her divorce she retained the style Her Royal Highness ; however on 21 August 1996 letters patent were issued which removed the title from divorced former wives of princes.

Following this, and some debate about a new university at St. Patrick's Cathedral, in 1592 a small group of Dublin citizens obtained a charter by way of letters patent from Queen Elizabeth incorporating Trinity College at the former site of All Hallows monastery, to the south east of the city walls, provided by the Corporation of Dublin.

A number of the churchyard memorials are made of cast iron: these were manufactured at the former foundry in The Street at around the end of the nineteenth century using a common mound into which individual letters were inserted to spell out the details.

In 1954 Guareschi was charged with libel after he had published two facsimile wartime letters from resistance leader and former Prime Minister Alcide De Gasperi requesting the Allies to bomb the outskirts of Rome in order to demoralize German collaborators.