A butlerage was a duty of two shillings on every ton of wine imported into England by foreign merchants. [1] [2] It was so called because it was paid to the king's butler for the king. The tax was levied from 1302 to 1809. [1]
A butlerage was a duty of two shillings on every ton of wine imported into England by foreign merchants. [1] [2] It was so called because it was paid to the king's butler for the king. The tax was levied from 1302 to 1809. [1]
Dub mac Maíl Coluim, sometimes anglicised as Duff MacMalcolm, called Dén, "the Vehement" and, "the Black" was king of Alba. He was son of Malcolm I and succeeded to the throne when Indulf was killed in 962.
The is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. The is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers.
Ebez also rendered Abez, was a town in the allotment of the tribe of Issachar, at the north of the Jezreel Valley, or plain of Esdraelon. F. R. and C. R. Conder (1879), believed that it was probably the ruins of el-Beida, but William Robertson Smith (1899) expressed doubt about this identification. According to the 1915 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), the location is not known. It is mentioned only in Joshua 19:20, where various manuscripts of the Septuagint render it as Rebes, Aeme, or Aemis. It is mentioned on the façade of the Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu as Apijaa.
Achshaph was a royal city of the Canaanites, in the north of Canaan. The name means "sorcery".
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Walter Bower was a Scottish canon regular and abbot of Inchcolm Abbey in the Firth of Forth, who is noted as a chronicler of his era. He was born about 1385 at Haddington, East Lothian, in the Kingdom of Scotland. In 1991, Donald Watt said of Bower's Scotichronicon that "We are more and more convinced that this book is one of the national treasures of Scotland, which should be studied in depth for many different kinds of enquiry into Scotland's past."
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The name Jerahmeel appears several times in the Tanakh. It means "He will obtain mercy of God", "God pities", "May God have compassion", "May God pity", or "Moon from God".
Tonnage and poundage were duties and taxes first levied in Edward II's reign on every tun (cask) of imported wine, which came mostly from Spain and Portugal, and on every pound weight of merchandise exported or imported. Traditionally tonnage and poundage was granted by Parliament to the king for life, but this practice did not continue into the reign of Charles I. Tonnage and poundage were swept away by the Customs and Excise Act 1787.
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Ariarathes VI Epiphanes Philopator, was the Ariarathid king of Cappadocia from 130 BC to 116 BC. He was the youngest son of Ariarathes V of Cappadocia and Nysa of Cappadocia.
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In Greek mythology, Algea is used by Hesiod in the plural as the personification of pain, both physical and mental. They were the bringers of weeping and tears.
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