Kings of England

Only when he had been safely crowned king of England did Henry marry Elizabeth of York and have her crowned as his consort. Elizabeth Woodville, as Queen Dowager and the Queen s Mother, had an assured place at court but in practice was very much subordinate to Margaret Beaufort as the King s Mother. In 1487 Elizabeth retired to the traditional royal retreat of the Abbey... 

Tales are told involving historical figures, in which the notoriety of Madeira wine abroad was already clear. It is said that, in 1478, George, Duke of Clarence, the brother of Edward IV, the King of England, when... 

Even before the fateful battle in the English Channel, the kings of England recognized the need for hemp if their realm were ever to compete with Europe. Initially, the monarchs tried to coerce their subjects to raise hemp. The first such fiat came in 1533 when King Henry VIII commanded that for every sixty acres of arable land a farmer owned, a quarter acre was to be sown with hemp. The penalty for not doing so was to be three shillings and four pence. 

When James I became the King of England, he did not like the mild Elizabethan laws against witches. He therefore found a defect in the statute. .. by which none died for witchcraft but they only who by that means killed, so that such were executed rather as murderers than witches. In other words, until then, alleged witches had been punished only for what they did James had the law changed so that they were punished for who they were. 

A third party consisting of Raymond Priestley, Bertram Army tage, and Sir Philip Brocklehurst explored the Ferrar Glacier and the ice-free valleys of southern Victoria Land west of Ross Island. Both parties were picked up by the Nimrod and, after Shackleton and his men had returned from their trek, the Nimrod headed north and landed safely in Lyttelton Harbor on the South Island of New Zealand. Ernest Shackleton was knighted by the King of England for his achievements in Antarctica, but his career of geographic exploration did not end there. 

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