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DICTIONARY OF HISTORICAL ALLUSIONS
LONDON: SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO., LTD.
DICTIONARY OF HISTORICAL ALLUSIONS
LONDON
SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO. LTD. PATERNOSTER SQUARE 1903
" 22 " Bar " 1876 " 1768.
" 34 " Bobbing John " 1815 " 1715.
" 71 " Cyprus " 1788 " 1878.
" 77 " Disarming the Highlands " 1825 " 1725.
" 94 " Fifteen " 1815 " 1715.
" 96 " Flowery Land " 1684 " 1864.
" 98 " Forty-five " 1845 " 1745.
" minine " mining.
" 110 " Great Commoner " younger " elder.
" 139 " Kitcat Club " 1793 " 1703.
" 207 " Quietists " 1780 " 1680.
DICTIONARY OF HISTORICAL ALLUSIONS
Abbeville, Treaty of.
Abecedarians.
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.
Abencerrages.
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.
Abhorrers.
Abingdon Law.
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.
Abjuration, Act of .
An Act passed in 1702, imposing upon all who took office under the State, an oath abjuring the House of Stuart, and binding them to support each successor to the throne named in the Act of Settlement.
Abjuration, Act of .
Abo, Treaty of.
A treaty between Russia and Sweden, signed in 1743, after the surrender of the Swedish army at Helsingfors. Russia acquired Finland, as far as the river Ki?mer, and secured the election of Adolphus Frederick of Holstein as Crown Prince of Sweden, in the place of the Prince Royal of Denmark.
Abolitionists.
The extreme anti-slavery party in the United States, in 1860. They demanded the total abolition of slavery, and would agree to no compromise with the South, even at the cost of civil war.
Absentee Tax.
Academic Legion.
A body of armed students who took an active part in the revolutionary disturbances in Vienna in 1848.
Acadia.
The original name of Nova Scotia.
Acte Additionel.
Adam Kok, Treaty with.
A treaty made with Adam Kok, a Griqua chief, by Sir Peregrine Maitland in 1845. One of its provisions, which later caused considerable trouble in the Orange River Sovereignty, prevented the alienation of land by the Griquas to Europeans over a considerable portion of Kok's territory. The treaty was denounced by Great Britain in 1856 after the Convention of Bloemfontein.
Addled Parliament.
A Parliament summoned by James I, in 1615. An attempt by certain of its members, who were dubbed the Undertakers, to control it in the interests of the Court, failed signally, and the king promptly dissolved it.
Adendorff Trek.
A threatened trek of a large number of Transvaal Boers, under a leader named Adendorff, into Mashonaland, in 1891. Sir Henry Loch raised a protest, on the ground that the trek would be an infringement of the Swaziland Convention of 1890, and an act of hostility towards Great Britain, whereupon President Kruger issued a proclamation forbidding all Transvaal burghers to take part in the movement.
Adis Ababa, Treaty of.
Adjutators.
Delegates elected by each regiment of the Parliamentary Army in 1647, to act with the officers in placing their demands and grievances before Parliament prior to disbandment.
Admonition.
A document issued by Thomas Cartwright, the leader of the Puritans, in 1572, demanding the establishment of Presbyterianism, as being a divine institution.
Admonition, Cardinal Allen's.
A pamphlet addressed to the "Nobility and People of England," bringing a series of scandalous charges against Queen Elizabeth, issued by Cardinal Allen in 1588.
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