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The Roman Canon is the oldest eucharistic prayer used in the Mass of the Roman Rite, and dates its arrangement to at least the 7th century; its core, however, is much older. Through the centuries, the Roman Canon has undergone minor alterations and modifications, but retains the same essential form it took in the seventh century under Pope ...
It is often assumed that Rochester was a fortified Roman town, but no evidence has been found of a formal fort. The Roman street pattern suggests that it was a line of shops and houses built alongside a road, the characteristic pattern of a vicus. Systematic fortification did take place after AD 175 and this of course was well before Bede's time.
Mary of York (11 August 1467 – 23 May 1482) was the second daughter of King Edward IV of England and his queen consort Elizabeth Woodville. The first years of Mary's life were spent in close connection with her older sister Elizabeth of York (later Queen consort of England), who was eighteen months older. The princesses were raised and ...
Margaret Clitherow (née Middleton, c. 1556 – 25 March 1586) was an English recusant, [2] and a saint and martyr of the Roman Catholic Church, [3] known as The Pearl of York. She was pressed to death for refusing to enter a plea to the charge of harbouring Catholic priests.
Cannons in the 20th and 21st centuries are usually divided into sub-categories, and given separate names. Some of the most widely used types of modern cannons are howitzers, mortars, guns, and autocannon, although a few very large-calibre cannons, custom-designed, have also been constructed. Modern artillery is used in a variety of roles ...
In 1555, during the reign of Queen Mary I, a Protestant baker from Yorkshire, George Tankerfield, was brought from London and burnt to death on Romeland for his refusal to accept the Roman Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation. During the English Civil War (1642–45) the town sided with parliament but was largely unaffected by the conflict.
The name kartouwe is of Dutch origin, [2] a corruption of Latin quartana [3] (quarter cannon). [2] In the Holy Roman Empire the gun was called Kartaune in German or cartouwe in contemporary Latin usage , [ 4 ] in the Swedish Empire Kartow , [ 4 ] spelling variants include kartouw , kartouve , [ 5 ] cartow , [ 2 ] cartaun , [ 2 ] courtaun , [ 2 ...
Roman wall and the west corner tower (the Multangular Tower) of the Roman legionary fort at York, with medieval additions above. A telltale layer of red Roman bricks can be seen at about head height. The Romans called the tribes in the region around York the Brigantes and the Parisii. York may have been on the border between these two tribes.