Fleet, the
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Fleet, the a stream (now covered) flowing into the Thames between Ludgate Hill and Fleet Street, and the nearby
Fleet prison, a former London prison in the neighbourhood of the present Farringdon Street, alongside the Fleet river. It was built in the time of Richard I, and long afterwards served as a place of imprisonment for persons condemned by the Star Chamber. After the abolition of the latter in 1640, it served mainly as a debtors' prison, until demolished in 1848.
Fleet marriage a wedding performed clandestinely by a
Fleet parson, any of a number of disreputable clergymen to be found in or around the Fleet prison ready to perform such marriages.
Fleet Street the British Press, from a street in central London in which the offices of national newspapers were located until the mid 1980s.
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The Emancipation of Catholics, Jews, and Protestants: Minorities and the Nation State in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 4/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...however, attributes Catholic failure to gain "formal" emancipation, not so much to Protestant...antipathy, as to Catholic adherence to the old...failure of many German Catholics to progress economically...32), Catholic Emancipation was a direct result...discrimination against English ...
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Catholic emancipations; Irish fiction from Thomas Moore to James Joyce.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2008; 425 words
; 9780815631750 Catholic emancipations; Irish fiction from Thomas Moore...unexpected end to a history of the Irish Catholic novel, admits Nolan (English...the origin of the genre during the Catholic political resurgence of the 1820s...
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The Emancipation of Catholics, Jews, and Protestants: Minorities and the Nation State in Nineteenth-Century Europe.
Magazine article from: Church History; 3/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...also revealing the course of emancipation in four distinct national...outlining the halting progress of Catholic emancipation in Britain. He observes that even as Catholics gained political rights...social status. Moreover, as Catholic legal emancipation advanced, social integration ...
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Act of Union anniversary supplement: THE UNION TIMELINE; FIRST PROPOSED IN 1687, THE UNION BECAME A REALITY MORE THAN A CENTURY LATER Riots, secret missions, the union of two parliaments and Catholic Emancipation.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland); 1/22/2001; 700+ words
; ...Ireland, the notion of combining Catholic Emancipation with a union of the two Parliaments...necessity of following union with Catholic emancipation and offering his...replies to Pitt declaring that Catholic emancipation would break his...
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An Emancipation Election: (Louth, 1826).(COMMONS SENSE)
Magazine article from: History Today; 6/1/2005; 700+ words
; ...handful in Ireland in which the Catholic Association first demonstrated...successfully mobilizing the Catholic electors against their Protestant...landlords in support of a pro-emancipation candidate. The threat of...Wellington ministry to pass Catholic emancipation in 1829. ...
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A Confederate general's emancipation attempt.(Saturday)(The Civil War)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 7/5/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...command, the chapter on Cleburne's vain attempt at emancipation is particularly poignant in the context of today...Cleburne was publicly identified as sympathetic to Catholic emancipation. This may have been an influence that young Pat...
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Emancipation of Czech political Catholicism, 1890-1914.
Magazine article from: East European Quarterly; 3/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...changed circumstances, Catholic leaders slowly changed...between politicians and Catholic hierarchy, especially...role in the political emancipation of Catholics. The conservatives in Bohemia relied on Catholic-political societies...
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Jewish Emancipation in a German City: Cologne, 1798-1871.(Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 3/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; Jewish Emancipation in a German City: Cologne...nineteenth century, Jewish emancipation, it is argued, was the...conservative, as was that of the Catholic majority. The story of Jewish emancipation, in this instance at least...
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Visions of Emancipation: the Italian Workers' Movement Since 1945.
Magazine article from: Industrial and Labor Relations Review; 1/1/1989; ; 700+ words
; Historical Studies Visions of Emancipation: The Italian Workers Movement Since 1945. By Joanne...Barkan provides little information about the visions of emancipation held by the Catholic workers' movement, the Communist and Socialist unions...
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Catholics in Britain and Ireland, 1558-1829.
Magazine article from: Church History; 12/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; Catholics in Britain and Ireland...John Bossy (The English Catholic Community, 1570-1850...Handle and the Axe: The Catholic Recusants in England from Reformation to Emancipation [London: Blond and Briggs...decisions that affected the Catholics. Unlike those two authors...
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Catholic emancipation
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
Catholic emancipation, the admission of Catholics to the positions...excluded following the Catholic Relief Acts of 1778...proprietorial control over Catholic voters, and convinced...Wellington and Peel that emancipation could not be delayed...
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Catholic Emancipation
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Catholic Emancipation term applied...which Roman Catholics in the British...to advocate Catholic Emancipation, influenced...Connell and his Catholic Association...admission of Catholics to Parliament...
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catholic emancipation
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
catholic emancipation was achieved by...enabling Roman catholics in Britain to...majority. English catholics played little...Majesty's Roman Catholic Subjects , was...provision for catholics to serve as members...
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Catholic Emancipation, Act of
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Catholic Emancipation, Act of (1829) Measure...Reformation ) barring Roman Catholics in Britain from holding...removed, and by 1793 Catholics were allowed in the services...concession, allowing catholics to sit in Parliament...
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Catholic Emancipation Acts
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Catholic Emancipation Acts. See CATHOLIC RELIEF ACTS .
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