A series of provisions based on those of Oxford, issued in 1259, and afterwards embodied in the Statute of Marlborough.
Westminster, Statutes of.
The first Statute of Westminster was passed by the first Parliament of Edward I in 1275. It was practically a codification of previously existing laws and statutes which had not been fully enforced. It secured the Church in its rights, re-enacted the various charters, and reformed many abuses in the administration of the law. The second Statute of Westminster is the Statute also known as De Donis Conditionalibus.
Westminster, Synod of.
A synod held in 1102, at which decrees were issued against simony, marriage of the clergy and other ecclesiastical abuses, and also against the selling of men into slavery.
Westphalia, Treaty of.
This treaty, signed in 1648 by France, Sweden and the Empire, put an end to the Thirty Years’ War. It established and recognized Protestantism in Germany, and made provision for the equal representation of the two religions in the German Diet. France obtained Alsace, Sweden secured Bremen, North Pomerania and Stettin, and there were certain changes among the smaller German States.
Whigamores’ Raid.
A rising of the peasantry of the west of Scotland in 1648, in opposition to the supporters of the Engagement.