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Constitutional status of Cornwall, the Glossary

The constitutional status of Cornwall has been a matter of debate and dispute.^[1]

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*Walhaz

*Walhaz is a reconstructed Proto-Germanic word meaning 'foreigner', or more specifically 'Roman', 'Romance-speaker' or '(romanized) Celt', and survives in the English words of 'Wales/Welsh' and 'Cornwall.' The term was used by the ancient Germanic peoples to describe inhabitants of the former Roman Empire, who were largely romanised and spoke Latin languages (cf.

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A. K. Hamilton Jenkin

Alfred Kenneth Hamilton Jenkin (29 October 1900 – 20 August 1980) was a Cornish bard and historian with a particular interest in Cornish mining, publishing The Cornish Miner, now a classic, in 1927.

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Abraham Ortelius

Abraham Ortelius (also Ortels, Orthellius, Wortels; 4 or 14 April 152728 June 1598) was a cartographer, geographer, and cosmographer from Antwerp in the Spanish Netherlands.

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Administrative counties of England

Administrative counties were subnational divisions of England used for local government from 1889 to 1974.

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Andrew George (politician)

Andrew Henry George (born 2 December 1958) is a British Liberal Democrat politician.

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Archbishop of Canterbury

The archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and a principal leader of the Church of England, the ceremonial head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury.

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Arthur Hopton (diplomat)

Sir Arthur Hopton (c. 1588-6 March 1650) was an English diplomat who spent most of his career in Madrid, where he was Resident Agent from 1630 to 1636, then Ambassador from 1638 to 1645.

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Attorney General for England and Wales

His Majesty's Attorney General for England and Wales is the chief legal adviser to the sovereign and Government in affairs pertaining to England and Wales as well as the highest ranking amongst the law officers of the Crown.

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Æthelred the Unready

Æthelred II (Æþelræd,Different spellings of this king's name most commonly found in modern texts are "Ethelred" and "Æthelred" (or "Aethelred"), the latter being closer to the original Old English form Æþelræd. Compare the modern dialect word.; Aðalráðr; 966 – 23 April 1016), known as Æthelred the Unready, was King of the English from 978 to 1013 and again from 1014 until his death in 1016.

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Æthelstan

Æthelstan or Athelstan (– 27 October 939) was King of the Anglo-Saxons from 924 to 927 and King of the English from 927 to his death in 939.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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Belinus

Belinus the Great was a legendary king of the Britons, as recounted by Geoffrey of Monmouth.

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Berkshire

The Royal County of Berkshire, commonly known as simply Berkshire (abbreviated Berks.), is a ceremonial county in South East England.

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Berwick-upon-Tweed

Berwick-upon-Tweed, sometimes known as Berwick-on-Tweed or simply Berwick, is a town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, south of the Anglo-Scottish border, and the northernmost town in England.

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Bishop of Durham

The bishop of Durham is responsible for the diocese of Durham in the province of York.

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Bodmin manumissions

The Bodmin manumissions are records included in a manuscript Gospel book, the Bodmin Gospels or St Petroc Gospels, British Library, Add MS 9381.

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Burh

A burh or burg was an Anglo-Saxon fortification or fortified settlement.

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Camborne and Redruth (UK Parliament constituency)

Camborne and Redruth is a constituency in Cornwall represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Perran Moon of the Labour Party.

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Celliwig

Celliwig, Kelliwic or Gelliwic is perhaps the earliest named location for the court of King Arthur.

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Celtic League

The Celtic League is a pan-Celtic organization, founded in 1961, that aims to promote modern Celtic identity and culture in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, Cornwall and the Isle of Man – referred to as the Celtic nations; it places particular emphasis on promoting the Celtic languages of those nations. Constitutional status of Cornwall and Celtic League are Home rule in the United Kingdom and politics of Cornwall.

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Cheshire

Cheshire is a ceremonial county in North West England.

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Christopher Saxton

Christopher Saxton (c. 1540 – c. 1610) was an English cartographer who produced the first county maps of England and Wales.

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Cnut

Cnut (Knútr; c. 990 – 12 November 1035), also known as Canute and with the epithet the Great, was King of England from 1016, King of Denmark from 1018, and King of Norway from 1028 until his death in 1035.

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Coat of arms

A coat of arms is a heraldic visual design on an escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the last two being outer garments).

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Condor of Cornwall

Condor (also Candorus, Cadoc and other variants) was a legendary Cornish nobleman.

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Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative and Unionist Party, commonly the Conservative Party and colloquially known as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party.

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Constitutional reform in the United Kingdom

There have been various proposals for constitutional reform in the United Kingdom. Constitutional status of Cornwall and constitutional reform in the United Kingdom are constitution of the United Kingdom, government of the United Kingdom, law of the United Kingdom and politics of the United Kingdom.

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Constitutional status of Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles

The island groups of Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles are all currently regions of Scotland. Constitutional status of Cornwall and Constitutional status of Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles are constitution of the United Kingdom.

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Cornish Assembly

A Cornish Assembly (Senedh Kernow) is a proposed devolved law-making assembly for Cornwall along the lines of the Scottish Parliament, the Senedd (Welsh Parliament) and the Northern Ireland Assembly in the United Kingdom. Constitutional status of Cornwall and Cornish Assembly are Cornish nationalism and politics of Cornwall.

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Cornish Constitutional Convention

The Cornish Constitutional Convention (CCC; Senedh Kernow) was formed in November 2000 with the objective of establishing a devolved Cornish Assembly (Senedh Kernow). Constitutional status of Cornwall and Cornish Constitutional Convention are Cornish nationalism, Home rule in the United Kingdom and politics of Cornwall.

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Cornish devolution

Cornish devolution is the movement to increase the governing powers of the County of Cornwall. Constitutional status of Cornwall and Cornish devolution are Home rule in the United Kingdom and politics of Cornwall.

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Cornish Foreshore Case

The Cornish Foreshore Case was an arbitration case held between 1854 and 1858 to resolve a formal dispute between the British Crown and the Duchy of Cornwall over the rights to minerals and mines under the foreshore of Cornwall in the southwest of England, most of which was owned by the duchy. Constitutional status of Cornwall and Cornish Foreshore Case are Cornish nationalism and politics of Cornwall.

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Cornish language

Cornish (Standard Written Form: Kernewek or Kernowek) is a Southwestern Brittonic language of the Celtic language family. Constitutional status of Cornwall and Cornish language are Cornish nationalism.

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Cornish people

The Cornish people or Cornish (Kernowyon, Cornƿīelisċ) are an ethnic group native to, or associated with Cornwall: and a recognised national minority in the United Kingdom, which (like the Welsh and Bretons) can trace its roots to the Brittonic Celtic ancient Britons who inhabited Great Britain from somewhere between the 11th and 7th centuries BC and inhabited Britain at the time of the Roman conquest.

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Cornish Stannary Parliament

The Cornish Stannary Parliament (officially The Convocation of the Tinners of Cornwall) was the representative body of the Cornish stannaries, which were chartered in 1201 by King John.

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Cornwall

Cornwall (Kernow;; or) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Cornwall Council

Cornwall Council (Konsel Kernow), known between 1889 and 2009 as Cornwall County Council (Konteth Konsel Kernow), is the local authority which governs the non-metropolitan county of Cornwall in South West England.

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Counties of England

The counties of England are a type of subdivision of England.

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County Durham

County Durham, officially simply Durham (/ˈdʌrəm/), is a ceremonial county in North East England.

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County palatine

In England, Wales and Ireland a county palatine or palatinate was an area ruled by a hereditary nobleman enjoying special authority and autonomy from the rest of a kingdom.

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Dafydd Wigley

Dafydd Wynne Wigley, Baron Wigley, (born David Wigley; 1 April 1943) is a Welsh politician who served as the leader of Plaid Cymru from 1981 to 1984 and again from 1991 to 2000.

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Dan Rogerson

Daniel John Rogerson (born 23 July 1975, St Austell) is a Cornish Liberal Democrat politician.

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David Cameron

David William Donald Cameron, Baron Cameron of Chipping Norton, (born 9 October 1966) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016, and as UK Foreign Secretary under Prime Minister Rishi Sunak from November 2023 to July 2024.

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Declaration of independence

A declaration of independence, declaration of statehood or proclamation of independence is an assertion by a polity in a defined territory that it is independent and constitutes a state.

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Della Hooke

Della Hooke, (born 1939) is a British historical geographer and academic, who specialises in landscape history and Anglo Saxon England.

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Devolution

Devolution is the statutory delegation of powers from the central government of a sovereign state to govern at a subnational level, such as a regional or local level.

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Devon

Devon (historically also known as Devonshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Dick Cole (politician)

Dick Cole (born 6 April 1967) is a Cornish politician, currently serving as an elected member of Cornwall Council and the leader of the Cornish devolutionist political party, Mebyon Kernow, a role he has held since 1997.

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Domesday Book

Domesday Book (the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of King William the Conqueror.

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Dorset

Dorset (archaically: Dorsetshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Duchy

A duchy, also called a dukedom, is a country, territory, fief, or domain ruled by a duke or duchess, a ruler hierarchically second to the king or queen in Western European tradition.

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Duchy of Cornwall

The Duchy of Cornwall (Duketh Kernow) is one of two royal duchies in England, the other being the Duchy of Lancaster. Constitutional status of Cornwall and duchy of Cornwall are politics of Cornwall.

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Dumnonia

Dumnonia is the Latinised name for a Brythonic kingdom that existed in Sub-Roman Britain between the late 4th and late 8th centuries CE in the more westerly parts of present-day South West England.

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Dyfnwal Moelmud

Dyfnwal Moelmud (Welsh for "Dyfnwal the Bald and Silent"; Dunvallo Molmutius) was accounted as an early king and lawmaker among the Welsh, credited with the codification of their standard units of measure.

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Ealdred (archbishop of York)

Ealdred (or Aldred; died 11 September 1069) was Abbot of Tavistock, Bishop of Worcester, and Archbishop of York in early medieval England.

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Earl of Cornwall

The title of Earl of Cornwall was created several times in the Peerage of England before 1337, when it was superseded by the title Duke of Cornwall, which became attached to heirs-apparent to the throne.

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Early modern period

The early modern period is a historical period that is part of the modern period based primarily on the history of Europe and the broader concept of modernity.

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Ecgberht, King of Wessex

Ecgberht (770/775 – 839), also spelled Egbert, Ecgbert, Ecgbriht, Ecgbeorht, and Ecbert, was King of Wessex from 802 until his death in 839.

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Edgar, King of England

Edgar (or Eadgar; 8 July 975) was King of the English from 959 until his death in 975.

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Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke (12 January 1729 – 9 July 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman and philosopher who spent most of his career in Great Britain.

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Edmund I

Edmund I or Eadmund I (920/921 – 26 May 946) was King of the English from 27 October 939 until his death in 946.

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Edmund Ironside

Edmund Ironside (30 November 1016;,,; sometimes also known as Edmund II) was King of the English from 23 April to 30 November 1016.

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Edward III of England

Edward III (13 November 1312 – 21 June 1377), also known as Edward of Windsor before his accession, was King of England from January 1327 until his death in 1377.

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Edward the Confessor

Edward the Confessor (1003 – 5 January 1066) was an Anglo-Saxon English king and saint. Usually considered the last king of the House of Wessex, he ruled from 1042 until his death in 1066. Edward was the son of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy. He succeeded Cnut the Great's son – and his own half-brother – Harthacnut.

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Edward the Martyr

Edward the Martyr (– 18 March 978) was King of the English from 8 July 975 until he was killed in 978.

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Egloshayle

Egloshayle (pronounced "eglos-hale"Eglosheyl – meaning church and heyl meaning estuary) is a civil parish and village in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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English Civil War

The English Civil War refers to a series of civil wars and political machinations between Royalists and Parliamentarians in the Kingdom of England from 1642 to 1651.

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English people

The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language, a West Germanic language, and share a common ancestry, history, and culture.

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Exeter

Exeter is a cathedral city and the county town of Devon, South West England.

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George Eustice

Charles George Eustice (born 28 September 1971) is a British politician and former public relations executive who held office as Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs between 2020 and 2022.

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Gerardus Mercator

Gerardus Mercator (5 March 1512 – 2 December 1594) was a Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer.

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Girolamo Ruscelli

Girolamo Ruscelli (1518–1566) was an Italian Mathematician and Cartographer active in Venice during the early 16th century.

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Godwin, Earl of Wessex

Godwin of Wessex (Godwine; – 15 April 1053) was an English nobleman who became one of the most powerful earls in England under the Danish king Cnut the Great (King of England from 1016 to 1035) and his successors.

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Gov.uk

gov.uk (styled on the site as GOV.UK) is a United Kingdom public sector information website, created by the Government Digital Service to provide a single point of access to HM Government services.

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H2g2

The h2g2 website is a British-based collaborative online encyclopedia project.

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Hansard

Hansard is the transcripts of parliamentary debates in Britain and many Commonwealth countries.

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Henry IV of England

Henry IV (– 20 March 1413), also known as Henry Bolingbroke, was King of England from 1399 to 1413.

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Henry of Huntingdon

Henry of Huntingdon (Henricus Huntindoniensis; 1088 – 1157), the son of a canon in the diocese of Lincoln, was a 12th-century English historian and the author of Historia Anglorum (Medieval Latin for "History of the English"), as "the most important Anglo-Norman historian to emerge from the secular clergy".

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House of Lords

The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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House of Tudor

The House of Tudor was an English and Welsh dynasty that held the throne of England from 1485 to 1603.

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Hundreds of Cornwall

The hundreds of Cornwall (Keverangow Kernow) were administrative divisions or Shires (hundreds) into which Cornwall, the present day administrative county of England, in the United Kingdom, was divided between and 1894, when they were replaced with local government districts. Constitutional status of Cornwall and hundreds of Cornwall are Cornish nationalism and politics of Cornwall.

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Ipsos MORI

Ipsos MORI was the name of a market research company based in London, England which is now known as Ipsos and still continues as the UK arm of the global Ipsos group.

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John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall

John of Eltham, 1st Earl of Cornwall (15 August 1316 – 13 September 1336) was the second son of Edward II of England and Isabella of France.

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Kilkhampton

Kilkhampton (Kylgh) is a village and civil parish in northeast Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Kingdom of England

The Kingdom of England was a sovereign state on the island of Great Britain from 886, when it emerged from various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, until 1 May 1707, when it united with Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, which would later become the United Kingdom.

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Lancashire

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs) is a ceremonial county in North West England.

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Land's End

Land's End (Cornish Standard Written Form or Pedn an Wlas) is a headland and tourist and holiday complex in western Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, on the Penwith peninsula about west-south-west of Penzance at the western end of the A30 road.

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Larry Whitty, Baron Whitty

John Lawrence Whitty, Baron Whitty, (born 15 June 1943), known as Larry Whitty, is a British Labour Party politician.

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Lawhitton

Lawhitton (Nansgwydhenn) is a village in the civil parish of Lawhitton Rural, in east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542

The Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542 (Y Deddfau Cyfreithiau yng Nghymru 1535 a 1542) or the Acts of Union (Y Deddfau Uno), were Acts of the Parliament of England under King Henry VIII of England, causing Wales to be incorporated into the realm of the Kingdom of England.

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Liberal Democrats (UK)

The Liberal Democrats (colloquially known as the Lib Dems) are a liberal political party in the United Kingdom, founded in 1988.

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List of acts of the Parliament of England from 1509

1 Hen.

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Local Government Act 1888

The Local Government Act 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 41) was an Act of Parliament which established county councils and county borough councils in England and Wales.

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Local Government Act 1972

The Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed local government in England and Wales on 1 April 1974.

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Lord Chancellor

The Lord Chancellor, formally titled Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, is the highest-ranking traditional minister among the Great Officers of State in Scotland and England in the United Kingdom, nominally outranking the prime minister. Constitutional status of Cornwall and Lord Chancellor are constitution of the United Kingdom and government of the United Kingdom.

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Maker, Cornwall

Maker (Magor) is a village between Cawsand and Rame Head, Rame Peninsula, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Malta

Malta, officially the Republic of Malta, is an island country in Southern Europe located in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Manorialism

Manorialism, also known as seigneurialism, the manor system or manorial system, was the method of land ownership (or "tenure") in parts of Europe, notably France and later England, during the Middle Ages.

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Mark Prisk

Michael Mark Prisk (born 12 June 1962) is a British politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Hertford and Stortford from 2001 until 2019.

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Mebyon Kernow

Mebyon Kernow – The Party for Cornwall (MK; Cornish for Sons of Cornwall) is a Cornish nationalist, centre-left political party in Cornwall, in southwestern Britain. Constitutional status of Cornwall and Mebyon Kernow are Cornish nationalism, Home rule in the United Kingdom and politics of Cornwall.

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Modern era

The modern era or the modern period is considered the current historical period of human history.

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National Library of Wales

The National Library of Wales (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru), in Aberystwyth, is the national legal deposit library of Wales and is one of the Welsh Government sponsored bodies.

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Non-metropolitan county

A non-metropolitan county, or colloquially, shire county, is a subdivision of England used for local government.

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Northern Ireland Office

The Northern Ireland Office (NIO; Oifig Thuaisceart Éireann, Ulster-Scots: Norlin Airlann Oaffis) is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.

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Northumbria

Northumbria (Norþanhymbra rīċe; Regnum Northanhymbrorum) was an early medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom in what is now Northern England and south-east Scotland.

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Odda of Deerhurst

Odda of Deerhurst (before 993 – 31 August 1056) was an Anglo-Saxon nobleman active in the period from 1013 onwards.

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Odda, Ealdorman of Devon

Odda, also known as Oddune,Harding p. 6 was a ninth-century ealdorman of Devon.

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Official Opposition frontbench

The frontbench of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition in the Parliament of the United Kingdom consists of the Shadow Cabinet and other official shadow ministers of the political party currently serving as the Official Opposition. Constitutional status of Cornwall and official Opposition frontbench are politics of the United Kingdom.

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Old English

Old English (Englisċ or Ænglisc), or Anglo-Saxon, was the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

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Outline of Cornwall

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Cornwall: Cornwall – ceremonial county and unitary authority area of England within the United Kingdom.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Parliament of England

The Parliament of England was the legislature of the Kingdom of England from the 13th century until 1707 when it was replaced by the Parliament of Great Britain. Constitutional status of Cornwall and Parliament of England are constitution of the United Kingdom.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom

The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, and may also legislate for the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories. Constitutional status of Cornwall and Parliament of the United Kingdom are constitution of the United Kingdom, government of the United Kingdom and politics of the United Kingdom.

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Patent roll

The patent rolls (Latin: Rotuli litterarum patentium) are a series of administrative records compiled in the English, British and United Kingdom Chancery, running from 1201 to the present day.

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Peter Tatchell

Peter Gary Tatchell (born 25 January 1952) is an Australian-born British human rights campaigner, best known for his work with LGBT social movements.

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Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall

Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall (– 19 June 1312) was an English nobleman of Gascon origin, and the favourite of Edward II of England.

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Plaid Cymru

Plaid Cymru (officially Plaid Cymru – the Party of Wales, and often referred to simply as Plaid) is a centre-left to left-wing, Welsh nationalist political party in Wales, committed to Welsh independence from the United Kingdom.

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Polydore Vergil

Polydore Vergil or Virgil (Italian: Polidoro Virgili, commonly Latinised as Polydorus Vergilius; – 18 April 1555), widely known as Polydore Vergil of Urbino, was an Italian humanist scholar, historian, priest and diplomat, who spent much of his life in England.

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Privy council

A privy council is a body that advises the head of state of a state, typically, but not always, in the context of a monarchic government.

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Regions of England

The regions of England, formerly known as the government office regions, are the highest tier of sub-national division in England.

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Richard Gough (antiquarian)

Richard Gough (21 October 1735 – 20 February 1809) was an English antiquarian.

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River Dee, Wales

The River Dee (Afon Dyfrdwy, Deva Fluvius) is a river flowing through North Wales, and through Cheshire, England, in Great Britain.

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River Exe

The River Exe is a river in England that rises at Exe Head, near the village of Simonsbath, on Exmoor in Somerset, from the Bristol Channel coast, but flows more or less directly due south, so that most of its length lies in Devon.

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River Severn

The River Severn (Afon Hafren), at long, is the longest river in Great Britain.

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River Tamar

The Tamar (Dowr Tamar) is a river in south west England that forms most of the border between Devon (to the east) and Cornwall (to the west).

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River Tweed

The River Tweed, or Tweed Water, Watter o Tweid, Tuedd), is a river long that flows east across the Border region in Scotland and northern England. Tweed cloth derives its name from its association with the River Tweed. The Tweed is one of the great salmon rivers of Britain and the only river in England where an Environment Agency rod licence is not required for angling.

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Robert, Count of Mortain

Robert, Count of Mortain, first Earl of Cornwall of 2nd creation (–) was a Norman nobleman and the half-brother (on their mother's side) of King William the Conqueror.

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Royal charters applying to Cornwall

This is a list of charters promulgated by kings of England that specifically relate to Cornwall, which was incorporated into the Kingdom of England late in the Anglo-Saxon period.

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Royal Commission on the Constitution (United Kingdom)

The Royal Commission on the Constitution, also referred to as the Kilbrandon Commission (initially the Crowther Commission) or Kilbrandon Report, was a long-running royal commission set up by Harold Wilson's Labour government to examine the structures of the constitution of the United Kingdom and the British Islands and the government of its constituent countries, and to consider whether any changes should be made to those structures. Constitutional status of Cornwall and royal Commission on the Constitution (United Kingdom) are constitution of the United Kingdom, Cornish nationalism, politics of Cornwall and politics of the United Kingdom.

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Salford Hundred

The Salford Hundred (also known as Salfordshire) was one of the subdivisions of the historic county of Lancashire in Northern England (see:Hundred (county division). Its name alludes to its judicial centre being the township of Salford (the suffix -shire meaning the territory was appropriated to the prefixed settlement).

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Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson (– 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer.

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Samuel Silkin

Samuel Charles Silkin, Baron Silkin of Dulwich, PC, QC (6 March 1918 – 17 August 1988) was a British Labour Party politician and cricketer.

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Scotland

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Scottish devolution

Devolution is the process in which the central British parliament grants administrative powers (excluding principally reserved matters) to the devolved Scottish Parliament.

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Scottish Office

The Scottish Office was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom from 1885 until 1999, exercising a wide range of government functions in relation to Scotland under the control of the Secretary of State for Scotland.

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Scottish people

The Scottish people or Scots (Scots fowk; Albannaich) are an ethnic group and nation native to Scotland.

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Scrope v Grosvenor

Scrope v Grosvenor (1389) was an early lawsuit relating to the law of arms.

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Sebastian Münster

Sebastian Münster (20 January 1488 – 26 May 1552) was a German cartographer and cosmographer.

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Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions was a United Kingdom Cabinet position created in 1997, with responsibility for the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR).

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Senedd

The Senedd, officially known as the Welsh Parliament in English and Senedd Cymru in Welsh, is the devolved, unicameral legislature of Wales.

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Sherborne

Sherborne is a market town and civil parish in north west Dorset, in South West England.

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Sir Richard Grenville, 1st Baronet

Sir Richard Grenville (26 June 1600 – 21 October 1659) was a professional soldier from Cornwall, who served in the Thirty Years War, and 1638 to 1651 Wars of the Three Kingdoms.

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Society for Creative Anachronism

The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) is an international living history group with the aim of studying and recreating mainly Medieval European cultures and their histories before the 17th century.

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South West England

South West England, or the South West of England, is one of the nine official regions of England in the United Kingdom.

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St Agnes, Cornwall

St Agnes (label) is a civil parish and a large village on the north coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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St Breock

St Breock (Nanssans) is a village and a civil parish in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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St Germans, Cornwall

St Germans (Lannaled) is a village and civil parish in east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Stannary

A stannary was an administrative division established under stannary law in the English counties of Cornwall and Devon to manage the collection of tin coinage, which was the duty payable on the metal tin smelted from the ore cassiterite mined in the region.

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Taxatio Ecclesiastica

The Taxatio Ecclesiastica, often referred to as the Taxatio Nicholai or just the Taxatio, compiled in 1291–92 under the order of Pope Nicholas IV, is a detailed database valuation for ecclesiastical taxation of English, Welsh, and Irish parish churches and prebends.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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Thegn

In later Anglo-Saxon England, a thegn (pronounced; Old English: þeġn) or thane (or thayn in Shakespearean English) was an aristocrat who owned substantial land in one or more counties.

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Traboe

Traboe (pronounced tray-bow) (Treworabo) is a hamlet on the Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Trethewey

Trethewey (Tredhewi) is a hamlet in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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University of Exeter Press

University of Exeter Press (UEP) is the academic press of the University of Exeter, England.

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University of Strathclyde

The University of Strathclyde (Oilthigh Shrath Chluaidh) is a public research university located in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Wales and Berwick Act 1746

The Wales and Berwick Act 1746 (20 Geo. 2. c. 42) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain that created a statutory definition of England as including England, Wales and Berwick-upon-Tweed.

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Welsh Office

The Welsh Office (Swyddfa Gymreig) was a department in the Government of the United Kingdom with responsibilities for Wales.

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Welsh people

The Welsh (Cymry) are an ethnic group native to Wales.

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West Country

The West Country (An Tir West) is a loosely defined area within southwest England, usually taken to include the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Bristol, with some considering it to extend to all or parts of Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Herefordshire.

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Wiktionary

Wiktionary (rhyming with "dictionary") is a multilingual, web-based project to create a free content dictionary of terms (including words, phrases, proverbs, linguistic reconstructions, etc.) in all natural languages and in a number of artificial languages.

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Wilkie Collins

William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White (1859), a mystery novel and early sensation novel, and for The Moonstone (1868), which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is also perhaps the earliest clear example of the police procedural genre.

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William Borlase

William Borlase (2 February 169631 August 1772), Cornish antiquary, geologist and naturalist.

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William Camden

William Camden (2 May 1551 – 9 November 1623) was an English antiquarian, historian, topographer, and herald, best known as author of Britannia, the first chorographical survey of the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Annales, the first detailed historical account of the reign of Elizabeth I of England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_status_of_Cornwall

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