The English barons obtained Magna Charta, or the Great Charter, from King John, A.D. 1215.
When the Edict of Nantes was revoked by Louis XIV., above 50,000 Huguenots fled from France.
The father of Watts the hymnist, suffered much after the withdrawal of the Declaration of Indulgence.
Every State having chess clubs in its cities should organize a State Chess Association, and these associations should send delegates to the Annual Convention of the National Association.—Phil. Ledger.
The President of the United States, the Sovereign of England, and the Governors of the several States of our Union, issue proclamations. Despots issue edicts,—sometimes called by the more general name of “decrees,” as in Ezra 6 : 1, 3. From Esther 1 : 19–22 we learn that a “royal commandment” was sent into all the king’s provinces, “that every man should bear rule in his own house.” If any of our readers have occasion to put in type, or read the proof of, the title of an edict or decree, they will, of course, make it agree with the rule. Of proclamations we have several every year. Frequently all the letters of the titles are capitals; otherwise, the capitals appear as in the following example:
BY HIS EXCELLENCY, B. A.,
Governor of the State [or Commonwealth] of ——.
A PROCLAMATION for a Day of Public Humiliation, Fasting, and Prayer.
In a monograph of a geological survey the following paragraph appears:
The dark laminated clays of the Cretaceous passing up into the Upper Cretaceous are well shown . . . . passing up {p176} into brown sandstones of the Coal group. There is great uniformity in the Upper Cretaceous and Tertiary series.—