Folklorist William Bascom states that folklore has many cultural aspects, such as allowing for escape from societal consequences.

However, Michael Montgomery, in From Ulster to America: The Scotch-Irish Heritage of American English, states " In Ulster in recent years it has sometimes been supposed that it was coined to refer to followers of King William III and brought to America by early Ulster emigrants …, but this derivation is almost certainly incorrect … In America hillbilly was first attested only in 1898, which suggests a later, independent development.

Therefore, he stands third in the line of succession to the thrones of sixteen independent sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms, and to the governorship of the Church of England, preceded by his father and elder brother, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge.

In the weeks leading up to the presidential election of 1852, he campaigned in numerous Southern states for Democratic candidates Franklin Pierce and William R. King.

Plano Carpin, an envoy of the Papal states, and William Rubruck, an envoy of France, all wrote about their life under the Mongols.

William Crossing in his Guide to Dartmoor states that a well known Dartmoor guide ( James Perrott ) placed a bottle for visiting cards at Cranmere Pool on the northern moor in 1854.

According to a 1998 report created by William Brankowitz, a deputy project manager in the U. S. Army Chemical Materials Agency, the Army created at least 26 chemical weapons dump sites in the ocean off at least 11 states on both the west and east coasts.

The will of a William Latewise who died in 1603 in Goosnargh – part of the parish of Kirkham – which states he was " of Culcheth in the parish of Winwick ".

William Camden in his Remains Concerning Britain ( 1605 ) states that Richard, " albeit he lived wickedly, made good laws ".

William G. Dever states " that we now have direct Bronze and Iron Age parallels for every feature of the ' Solomonic temple ' as described in the Hebrew Bible ".

( William I Robinson, op cit ) The Library of Congress Country Studies on Nicaragua states:

The New Jersey Plan generally favored the small population states, using the philosophy of English Whigs such as Edmund Burke to rely on received procedure, and William Blackstone emphasizing sovereignty of the legislature.

On December 18, 1865, Secretary of State William H. Seward proclaimed the amendment to have been adopted on December 6, 1865, when Georgia's ratification brought the total number of states to ratify to 27 of the then 36 states.

On December 18, 1865, Secretary of State William H. Seward, proclaimed the amendment to have been ratified by the legislatures of 27 of the then 36 states.

On July 20, 1868, Secretary of State William H. Seward certified that the amendment had become part of the Constitution if the rescissions were ineffective, and presuming also that the later ratifications by states whose governments had been reconstituted superseded the initial rejection of the prior state legislatures.

In the 1836 elections, the party was not yet sufficiently organized to run one nationwide candidate ; instead William Henry Harrison was its candidate in the northern and border states, Hugh Lawson White ran in the South, and Daniel Webster ran in his home state of Massachusetts.

Although William of Poitiers and William of Jumieges disagree about where the fleet was built – Poitiers states it was constructed at the mouth of the River Dives while Jumieges states it was built at Saint-Valery-sur-Somme – both agree that it eventually sailed from Valery-sur-Somme.

The chronicler Orderic Vitalis states that Edwin's reason for revolting was that the proposed marriage between himself and one of William's daughters had not taken place, but other reasons probably included the increasing power of William fitzOsbern in Herefordshire, which impacted Edwin's power within his own earldom.

The account of the contemporary chronicler William of Poitiers, states that the body of Harold was given to William Malet for burial:

William of Malmesbury writes that Gofraid, together with Sihtric's young son Olaf Cuaran fled north and received refuge from Constantine, which led to war with Æthelstan.

However, Sarah Foot is inclined to accept Michael Wood's argument that William's chronicle draws on a lost life of Æthelstan, while cautioning that we have no means of discovering how far William ' improved ' on the original.

According to William of Malmesbury, a certain Alfred plotted to blind Æthelstan on account of his supposed illegitimacy, and Ælfweard's full brother Edwin was allegedly involved in the plot.

William of Malmesbury states that Alfred sent his eldest grandson, Æthelstan son of Edward, to be educated at the court of Æthelflæd.

Some sources, notably the Cornish antiquary William Borlase, state that the expulsion of the Britons from Exeter was the first act in a military campaign against the West Welsh led by Æthelstan.

William the Breton, chaplain to Philip II at Bouvines at the battle, that the lines of soldiers stood in line in a space of 40 000 steps ( 15 hectares ), which leaves very little clearance and predisposes melee.

He was much employed by Bismarck in the writing of official despatches, and stood high in the favour of King William, whom he often accompanied on his journeys as representative of the foreign office.

On April 25 in a house speech that biographer William Nisbet Chambers called “ long, passionate, historical, polemical ,” Benton attacked the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, which he “ had stood upon ... above thirty years, and intended to stand upon it to the end -- solitary and alone, if need be ; but preferring company .” The speech was distributed afterwards as a pamphlet when opposition to the act moved outside the walls of congress.

Here stood the oak tree, on which an arrow shot by Sir Walter Tyrrell at a stag, glanced and struck King William the Second, surnamed Rufus, on the breast, of which he instantly died, on the second day of August, anno 1100.

Other old friends of Knox's, Lord Argyll and William Kirkcaldy, stood by Mary.

William had expected the English to falter, but the arrow barrage had little effect and nearly all the English troops still stood, their shield wall intact.

It was only after he stood up and threw off his helmet that William was able to rally his fleeing troops.

But he also in 1634 imposed on the College an Arminian provost, William Chappell, whose theological views, and peremptory style of government, were antithetical to all that Ussher stood for.

In 1923, IRA members blew up a large monument to the battle on the battlefield site on the Boyne and destroyed a statue of William III in 1929 that stood outside Trinity College, Dublin in the centre of the Irish capital.

Discontent arose and William of Orange ( with his vague Lutheran childhood ) stood up for the Protestant ( mainly Calvinist ) inhabitants of the Netherlands.

Under William III's will, Friso stood to inherit the Principality of Orange.

President Van Buren stood for re-election, and the Whigs once again countered with William Henry Harrison.

It is still often referred to on maps by the original canal crossing name of Windmill Bridge and is very close to the spot where the eponymous windmill once stood ; attracting the attention of a local Brentford artist named Joseph Mallard William Turner.

William Sutton's General Store stood on the northwest corner of Eatherton and Centaur Roads.

Rich and famous oilmen such as Marland, Frank Phillips, L. E. Phillips, Waite Phillips, and William G. Skelly stood in the shade of the Elm tree and bid in the auctions.

In 1876 Barton stood for the Legislative Assembly in the poll of the graduates of the University of Sydney ( who were required to wear gowns for the occasion ), but was beaten by William Charles Windeyer 49 votes to 43.

The agents of William Middelton ( 1815 – 1885 ) were responsible for the design of the new town of Ilkley to replace the village which had stood there before.

Curtin stood as the Labor candidate for the federal seat of Fremantle, near Perth, in 1925, losing badly to the incumbent, independent William Watson.

McKinley's financial problem in 1893 was one of the few marks on his record ; a cigar-smoking man clad in a suit covered with dollar signs who stood side by side with a gigantic figure representing the trusts, and a tiny, childlike William McKinley.

One official historian of the society, William T. Hastings, and some others believe that the " S " and " P " on the badge, which stood for Societas Philosophiae, " Philosophical Society ", was the original name of the Society and that " Phi Beta Kappa " came only over time to be taken as the name of the society.

" Smith represented the urban, east coast wing of the party, while his main rival for the nomination, California Senator William Gibbs McAdoo, stood for the more rural tradition.

William Ewart Gladstone, later Prime Minister, was MP for Newark in 1832, and re-elected in 1835, 1837 and 1841 ( twice ), but possibly due to his support of the repeal of the Corn Laws and other issues he stood elsewhere after that time.

Wilkie stood as godfather to the son of his fellow Academician William Collins.

William Ward's 278 scored in 1820 has stood as a record for 56 years ; within a week Grace has bettered it twice.