Dictionary of Historical Allusions
DICTIONARY OF HISTORICAL ALLUSIONS
Uniform with this Volume.
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London: SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO., Ltd.
By THOMAS BENFIELD HARBOTTLE Author of “Dictionary of Quotations (Classical)” and Co-Author of “Dictionary of Quotations (French and Italian)”
LONDON SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO. Ltd. PATERNOSTER SQUARE 1903
A treaty between the English Barons and Louis IX of France, signed in 1259, shortly after the establishment in England of the Council of Fifteen. By its provisions England retained Bordeaux, Bayonne, and Gascony, and surrendered all claim to Normandy, Anjou, Poitou, and Maine. The French king agreed to supply a sum of money sufficient to maintain for two years five hundred knights, to be employed for the benefit of England or of the Church.
A branch of the Anabaptists, founded in Germany in the sixteenth century by Stork, a disciple of Luther. They held that all human knowledge was valueless, and therefore declined to learn even the alphabet.
A noble Moorish family of Granada, in the fifteenth century. They were accused by a rival family, the Zegris, of plotting against Abdallah, King of Granada, and were lured into the Alhambra, where they were barbarously massacred. Thirty-six members of the family perished.
Another name for the Tories in the reign of Charles II. They were so called from their use of the word in their addresses to the king, protesting against the petitions in favour of summoning a Parliament in 1679.
Execution first and trial afterwards. The phrase is derived from the methods adopted by Major-General Brown, of the Commonwealth Army, at Abingdon, during the Civil War. It was his habit, it is said, to deal in this fashion with Malignants who fell into his hands.
Thomas Benfield Harbottle
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Abecedarians.
Abencerrages.
Abhorrers.
Abingdon Law.
Abjuration, Act of (England).
Abjuration, Act of (Netherlands).
Abo, Treaty of.
Abolitionists.
Absentee Tax.
Academic Legion.
Acadia.
Acte Additionel.
Adam Kok, Treaty with.
Addled Parliament.
Adendorff Trek.
Adis Ababa, Treaty of.
Adjutators.
Admonition.
Admonition, Cardinal Allen’s.
Adonis of Fifty.
Adrian, Bull of.
Adrianople, Treaty of.
Adriatic, Marriage of the.
Adscriptus Glebæ.
Adullamites.
Adventurers of 1642.
Afrancesados.
Afrikander Bond.
Agraviados.
Agrarian League.
Agricultural Alliance Bill.
Aids.
Aigun, Convention of.
Aix-la-Chapelle, Congress of.
Aix-la-Chapelle, Treaty of.
Aix-la-Chapelle, Treaty of.
Akerman, Treaty of.
Alabama.
Alais, Treaty of.
Alaric Cottin.
Alascans.
Alaska Purchase.
Alaska Treaty.
Albanian League.
Albany Regency.
Albigenses.
Alcantara, Knights of.
Ale Conner.
Alexander of Bulgaria, Abduction of.
Alexander of the North.
Alexander, The Albanian.
Alexander, The English.
Alexander Newski, Order of.
Alien Act.
Alien and Sedition Laws.
Aliwal North, First Treaty of.
Aliwal North, Second Treaty of.
All Red Cable.
Allgemeines Landrecht.
Alliance Society.
Allodial Lands.
Alte Fritz.
Althing.
Alumbrados.
Amalfitan Code.
Amboise, Conspiracy of.
Amboise, Convention of.
Amboyna, Massacre of.
America Act.
America, Discovery of.
American Customs Act.
American-Japanese Treaty.
American-Spanish Treaty.
Ami des Hommes.
Ami du Peuple.
Amiens, Award of.
Amiens, Peace of.
Amistad Case.
Amour, Loi d’.
Amoureux, Guerre des.
Ampoule, La Sainte.
Anabaptists.
Anarchist Riots, Chicago.
Ancients, Council of.
Ancon, Treaty of.
Andrassy Note.
Anes, Journée des.
Anglo-Chinese Agreement, 1902.
Anglo-Dutch Treaty, 1872.
Anglo-French Agreement, 1896.
Anglo-German Agreement, 1890.
Anglo-German Agreement, 1900.
Anglo-Italian Agreement, 1885.
Anglo-Japanese Agreement, 1902.
Anglo-Japanese Treaty, 1895.
Anglo-Portuguese Treaty, 1891.
Anglo-Russian Convention, 1825.
Ankarström’s Conspiracy.
Annates.
Annunziata.
Annus Mirabilis.
Anti-Corn Law League.
Anti-federalists.
Antigone, The Modern.
Anti-Parnellites.
Anti-Remonstrants.
Anti-Semitism.
Anti-Slavery Society.
Anziani.
Apologie of William of Orange.
Appanages (France).
Appanages (Russia).
Apparel, Statutes of.
Appeals, Act of.
Apprentices, Statute of.
Apprenticeship (Transvaal).
Arabi’s Rebellion.
Aragon, Privilege of.
Arbitration Court.
Arbitrations.
Argonauts of Forty-nine.
Arima, Rebellion of.
Arkansas Civil War.
Armagh, Synod of.
Armagnac War.
Armagnacs.
Armatoli.
Armed Neutrality.
Armenian Massacres.
Arminians.
Army Plot.
Army Purchase.
Arrabiati.
Arras, Congress of.
Arras, Treaty of.
Arrière Fief.
Artels.
Articles.
Articles, Lords of the.
Articles of Henry.
Articles of Prague.
Articuli super Cartas.
Arya Somaj.
Aschaffenburg, Concordat of.
Ashbourne’s Act, Lord.
Ashburton Treaty.
Asiento.
Assassination Plot.
Assassins.
Assertion of the Seven Sacraments.
Assignats.
Assize of Arms.
Assize of Bread.
Assize of Clarendon.
Assize of Northampton.
Assize of Woodstock.
Association, The.
Association, The.
Association Treaty.
Associations Act, Ireland.
Associations Law, 1833.
Associations Law, 1901.
Assurance, The.
Assured Lords.
Assysthement.
Astor Place Riot.
Ataman.
Ateliers Nationaux.
Attainder, Act of.
Attalik Ghazi.
Atterbury’s Plot.
Audiencias.
Augmentations, Court of.
Augsburg, Confession of.
Augsburg, League of.
Augsburg, Peace of.
Aulic Council.
Aurum Reginae.
Ausculta Fili, Bull.
Ausgleich.
Austin Riots.
Austrägal Court.
Australasian League.
Australian Colonies Act.
Australian Commonwealth Act.
Austrian Succession, War of the.
Auto de fe.
Avignon Captivity.
Avignon, Reunion of.
Ayankeeados.
