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The Statute of Artificers 1563 or the Artificers and Apprentices Act 1563 (5 Eliz. 1. c. c. 4), also known as the Statute of Labourers 1562 , [ 1 ] was an act of the Parliament of England , under Queen Elizabeth I , which sought to fix prices, impose maximum wages, restrict workers' freedom of movement and regulate training.
Marginalia can add to or detract from the value of an association copy of a book, depending on the author of the marginalia and on the book. Catherine C. Marshall, doing research on the future of user interface design, has studied the phenomenon of user annotation of texts.
The Elizabethan Religious Settlement is the name given to the religious and political arrangements made for England during the reign of Elizabeth I (1558–1603). The settlement, implemented from 1559 to 1563, marked the end of the English Reformation .
The 1559 Book of Common Prayer, [note 1] also called the Elizabethan prayer book, is the third edition of the Book of Common Prayer and the text that served as an official liturgical book of the Church of England throughout the Elizabethan era. Elizabeth I became Queen of England in 1558 following the death of her Catholic half-sister Mary I.
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The diet in England during the Elizabethan era depended largely on social class. Bread was a staple of the Elizabethan diet, and people of different statuses ate bread of different qualities. The upper classes ate fine white bread called manchet , while the poor ate coarse bread made of barley or rye .
The Elizabethan madrigal was distinct from, but related to, the Italian tradition. Thomas Tallis ( c. 1505 –1585), Thomas Morley (1557 or 1558 – 1602), and John Dowland (1563–1626) were other leading English composers.
Margaret Glyn, About Elizabethan Virginal Music and its Composers, London, 1924 (revised 1934) R.L. Adams, The Development of Keyboard Music in England during the English Renaissance, Diss., University of Washington, 1960; Willi Apel, The History of Keyboard Music to 1700, Indiana University Press, 1972, p. 156–164, 253–258, 278–287, 293 ...