Edward I of England

King Edward I of England makes it a capital offense to burn coal in London. 

Roses entered royal heraldry in 1200CE and immediately became highly popular. Edward I of England (1272-1307) first adopted a golden rose in his heraldic crest. Later Henry IV (1399-1413), who issued many royal licenses for the practice of alchemy, chose a red rose. Edward IV (1461-83) selected a white rose framed in a circle of sunrays. This is a rose en soleil. 

The real imperative in Elizabeth Ts time was to counter the forces of Catholicism and finance the defense of Britain through Amsterdam s Jewish merchants and bankers. In 1290, Edward I had expelled the Jews from England. To reunite the English in a common identity with the Jews, Dee renewed the old legends of Britain s Davidic heritage. 

The Spaniards made the title of Almirante peculiar to sea-commanders in the time of Alfonso X (1252-1284), and it afterwards became, with them, the title of the second in command of a fleet. Edward I, the brother-in-law of Alfonso IX, introduced the title of Admiral into England, but as that of the commander-in-chief at sea. Eventually the Almirante became the chief commander in Spain also,... 

Edward shook his head. I would not have her people carry a tale into Burgundy of desperate measures in England. Or mar her happiness with fear that her dowry will not be paid, if Cooke is arraigned. She knows I cannot pay it myself. ... 

In a letter to the Annals of Philosophy, dated Cambridge, February 18, 1820, Edward Daniel Clarke wrote as follows Some varieties of radiated blende from Przibram in Bohemia are described by Stromeyer as containing two or three per cent of cadmium. At a sale. .. in London, I procured specimens of the particular mineral thus alluded to, which were sold under the name of splendent fibrous blende from Przibram, pronounced Pritzbram. I found afterwards that they had been brought to England by Mr. J. Sowerby of Lisle-street, a dealer in minerals.. . . Upon my return to Cambridge, I endeavoured to obtain cadmium from this ore, and succeeded. . . (133). Clarke also found this element in die zinc silicate from Derbyshire, England, and his results were soon confirmed by W. H. Wollaston and J. G. Children. In 1822 Clarke published a paper on the presence of cadmium in commercial sheet zinc (134). 

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