Queen Victoria !It gives me nightmares! The Salic law was a body of traditional law codified for governing the Salian Franks in the early Middle Ages during the reign of King Clovis I in the 6th century. Although Salic Law reflects very ancient usage and practices, the Lex Salica likely was first compiled only sometime between 507 and 511.[1] This provision has been dormant since Queen Victoria ascended the throne, because she did not inherit Hanover under the Salic Laws of the German states of the day,Babylon I am gonna Heckle you like only a Good Anglo-Saxon Princess can do! Charles was born in 1600, and was the second son of James VI of Scots and I of England. He was a King of England, as well as the King of Scotland, and King of Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. He was not very well liked as a King, as he believed in what was called Divine Right, or in other words, I own everything because I say I do. Charles was engaged in a struggle for power with the Parliament of England, always attempting to obtain royal revenue whilst Parliament sought to curb his Royal prerogative which Charles believed was divinely ordained. Divine Right is monarchical form of government where the monarch exercises ultimate governing authority as head of state and head of government, thus wielding political power over the sovereign state and its subject peoples. Many of his English subjects opposed his actions, in particular his interference in the English and Scottish Churches and the levying of taxes without parliamentary consent which grew to be seen as those of a tyrannical absolute monarch Charles_I_of_England] King Charles was not well liked in the United States either, for many reasons. There are still the memories of our ancestors that tell of the times as they were then. Many religious conflicts permeated Charless reign. His failure to successfully aid Protestant forces during the Thirty Years War. The Thirty Years War (1618–1648) was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history. The war was fought primarily in what is now Germany, and at various points involved most of the countries of Europe. Naval warfare also reached overseas and shaped the colonial formation of future nations.Thomas Hooker and the Doctrine of God.God makes account that New England shall be a refuge for his Noahs and his Lots, a rock and a shelter for his righteous ones to ran unto; and those that were vexed to see the ungodly lives of the people in this wicked land shall there be safe. Oh, therefore my brethren, lay hold on God, and let him not go out of your coasts! He is going! Look about you, I say, and stop him at the town’s-end, and let not thy God depart! Oh, England , lay siege about him by humble and hearty closing with him, and although he be going, he is not yet gone! Suffer him not to go far, suffer him not to say, ‘Farewell, or rather fare-ill, England !’ Now God calls upon thee, as he did sometime upon Jerusalem , [Jer 6.8] ‘Be thou instructed therefore’, O England, ‘lest my soul depart from thee, and lest I make thee desolate like a land that none inhabiteth .This is our day of atonement. This present day is ours. We have nothing to do with tomorrow. We are at odds with God, and this is the day of our reconciliation. This is the day wherein we are to make our peace with our God! Let us labour, therefore, to prevail with God, and, that we may not se his presence, do as the spouse in anticles 3.1, She sought him, but she could not find him, yet she gave not over, but she followed him till she found him. So our God is going, and shall we sit still on our beds? Would you have the gospel kept with these lazy wishes? Oh, no, no! Arise! Arise from off your downy beds, and fall down upon your knees, and entreat God to leave his gospel to you and to your posterity!The Anglo Saxon (Isaacs Son) Chronicle that the Anglo-Saxon peoples are descendants of the Israelites, many historians who point to Israelite . discoveries that identify the ancient Israelites as the ancestors of the Anglo-Saxon. It has been the practice in many societies for men to recite with pride the list of their ancestors. The royal genealogies of primitive peoples are rarely historical documents, though they can preserve elements of genuine tradition. Their purpose is to join the reigning king to the ancestor from whom the kingdom started, even from the god who gave the kings their authority. The early records of royal Saxon families are mainly genealogical, therefore there was a patrilineal element in royal succession. The genealogies inclined men to stick to the male line, to insist that a king should be the direct descendant of the ancestor who gave his name to the dynasty. From the Book Wadsworth or the Charter oak more details of this period of history was maintained for future generations such as our own to understand and embrace.Title:Wadsworth, or, The Charter Oak Author:Gocher, William Henry The ill-fated Charles Stuart was at the time carrying out the threat which his father made at Hampton Court when he told the Puritan divines that he would make them conform or he would harry them out of the land, or worse. At the time it sounded like an idle boast, but when they found that King James was determined to enforce one doctrine, one discipline, one religion, in substance and ceremony, many well to do people, as well as artisans and agriculturalists, who considered their spiritual welfare of more moment than their physical comforts, fled to Holland and later to America. There were no drones among those who gave up home comforts for faith. All of them were workers and thinkers whose minds had absorbed what could be gathered from the few books within the reach of the people at that period and the lectures which the Puritans had established in all of their churches. The Bible, being the most accessible, was read and discussed in every home, and with the awakening of religious liberty there came in turn that germ of civil liberty which was destined to blaze forth on the virgin soil of America. Over a century and a half was to roll by, however, before anyone was bold enough to declare that all men are created equal, and that mind, not birth, is the foundation of greatness, but the hour was at hand for it to be announced that the foundation of authority was based upon the consent of the people. That declaration was made in 1638 in Hartford, the cradle of democracy, by Thomas Hooker, and from it and other thoughts leading up to it came the spirit of opposition which eventually led to the severing of the ties that bound the colonies to the mother country.1 We have grown familiar with the pale rider of the Revelations, as his call is but a bidding to another realm in which the wicked will cease from troubling and where the toil-stained but none the less welcome wayfarer shall rest. Coming as you do, a soldier under orders, I expect that you will not hesitate in the performance of your duty. Under such conditions you are compelled to act, but in the doing remember that you are governing not the enemies of England, but her sons, who may again In time have equal authority with yourself as when they raised the late Lord Protector to powers greater than were ever wielded by an- English King, In time even the Stuarts will learn that the voice of the people is the voice of God, the all redeeming, all ruling and all forgiving- providence of mankind, Peace be with you. -John Wadsworth WILLIAM WADSWORTH Now that old age and the infirmities that ac-company it keep me by the fireside during the winter months, I have, at the request of my chil-dren and grandchilden, consented to put on paper a few of the events in which the Wadsworth family took part in the early days of the Connecticut Colony. There was a time when it was said that whenever there was danger on foot or fight-ing in the wind you would meet some one bearing the name, and I hope it will always be so, providing the risk is taken or the fighting done on the side of right. During my life I have had more than my share of trouble with Indian surprises, Dutch and French alarms and disputes with my own folk, as well as those acting in authority for the King and colony. Many a time I have been called upon to pay the penalty for temper, and when in the wrong no one ever saw the time that I refused to make public or private reflections upon myself. I have always tried in my poor ;way to take what was allotted me in good part and make amends for an injury. Father said it came down to us from the Yorkshire Wadsworths, who traced to Duke Wada.1 Whether it did or not is foreign to my task, and lest I give offense to those who may read these notes, I shall from this time confine my remarks to the Wadsworth family and those with whom they were associated in England and America. William Wadsworth, my father, came from Newtown with the Hooker company in 1636 and remained in Hartford the balance of his life. He died in 1675 as is shown by the town records. He was born at Long Buckley in Northamptonshire, England, in 1595, or, as he always stated it, in the thirty-seventh year of the reign of Queen Eliza-beth, and came to New England on the ship Lion in 1633 with his four children, Sarah, Mary, William and John, and his brother Christopher.1 1 The following reference to Duke Wada in York-shire appears in the Wadsworth Family in America, the paragraph quoted being from Lionel Charltons History of Whitby, 1779. During the course of these civil wars, some little time before the year 800, one of the chief leaders or heads of the faction against the government was Duke Wada, who lived in the neighborhood of Streanshalh, having his castle at the place now called Mulgrave. This Wada was one of the principal conspirators among those that murdered Ethel-red, King of Northumberland; and afterwards joining the confederates with what forces he could raise, gave battle to his successor, Ardulph, at Whalley in Lincolnshire, but with such ill fortune, that his army was routed and himself obliged to fly for it. On which he fortified his castle at Mulgrave with an intention to defend himself; but being seized with a certain distemper, he soon ended his days, and was interred there on a hill, between two hard stones, about seven feet high, which being twelve feet from each other, gave rise to the current report, which still prevails, that he was a giant in bulk and stature. It is further fabled, that Wada and his wife, the giantess Bell, built Mulgrave and Pickering castles, one working upon one and the other upon the second. But since they had only one hammer, they threw it backwards and for-wards across the country when it was wanted, shouting so that the one to whom it was thrown might be ready to catch it. They had a son, who when an in-fant could throw stones of enormous size, and becom-ing impatient one day for his mothers return, threw a huge stone across a valley at her, striking here with such force as to indent the stone itself. The Roman Road, which is called Wades Causeway, was formed by Wada and Bell; he paving and she bringing stones in her apron, which, sometimes giving way, would cause her to drop large heaps, which can now be seen in the heath.-There can be but little doubt that the name of Wadsworth originally signified Wadas or Waddys residence, Worth, according to Edmonds, being derived in the Anglo-Saxon from Wyrth, an estate or manor, usually one well watered. (See Glos-sary of Yorkshire Words.) The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, sub anno 798, records a great fight at Whalley during Lent, in which, according to Simeon of Durham, Wada Dux was put to flight by King Eardulfus. Some tumuli near Hacking Ferry attest this battle. One of them has been excavated, and a model of it is now to be seen in the museum of Stonyhurst College.Wada built many castles and roads in Yorkshire.
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