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5 days ago · The version of the myth known in 14th-century Colchester was that Coel, who later became king of Britain, founded the town in 219 A.D. Constantius, arriving in Britain from Spain in 260, besieged Colchester for three years before the conflict was ended by his marriage to Helen.
2 days ago · I repent of any in my bloodline, known or unknown, who have crossed the threshold into the spiritual realm and into Freemasonry, including ascending the counterfeit Jacobs Ladder found in the Masonic Craft. I renounce the spiritual umbilical cord of freemasonry. I sever it by the blood.
3 days ago · Perhaps the Earl [John De Bohun] and his wife, already mentioned." If so, it would have dated from about 1336. The stone was afterwards removed to the entrance of the old church, and formed a part of the floor; it is now placed in the floor of the tower.
4 days ago · Includes very detailed accounts of debates in both houses of Parliament from 1559 until 1601. Collected by Sir Simonds d'Ewes, knight and baronet of Stow Hall in Suffolk, they were revised and published in 1682 by his nephew, the lawyer and antiquary Paul Bowes. British History Online (no series). This free content was digitised by ...
3 days ago · Separate but equal, the legal doctrine that once allowed for racial segregation in the United States. The doctrine held that so long as segregation laws affected white and Black people equally, those laws did not violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S.
1 day ago · Early in 1523, Anne was secretly betrothed to Henry Percy, son of Henry Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland, but the betrothal was broken off when the Earl refused to support it. Cardinal Thomas Wolsey refused the match in January 1524. In February or March 1526, Henry VIII began his pursuit of Anne.
5 days ago · Former president of the Mental Health Tribunal in Scotland, Dr Joe Morrow, is due to receive an honorary fellowship from the Royal College of Psychiatrists. It was announced at the college’s international congress in Edinburgh that Dr Morrow, the Lord Lyon King of Arms, will receive the fellow.
