By John Darwin
The British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, 'has hitherto been now not an empire, however the venture of an empire' and John Darwin bargains a magisterial worldwide heritage of the increase and fall of that groovy imperial venture. The British Empire, he argues, used to be even more than a bunch of colonies governed over via a scattering of British expatriates until eventually eventual independence. It used to be, especially, an international phenomenon. Its energy derived a little less from the statement of imperial authority than from the fusing jointly of 3 other kinds of empire: the settler empire of the 'white dominions'; the industrial empire of the town of London; and 'Greater India' which contributed markets, manpower and armed forces muscle. This remarkable historical past charts how this difficult imperial internet was once first bolstered, then weakened and eventually severed at the rollercoaster of worldwide monetary, political and geostrategic upheaval on which it rode from starting to finish.
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Aungier, p. 288. 5 The fact that a new General Confessor was voted in on the same occasion as that of the abbess’s election made the whole process more cumbersome. For a royal convent it was mandatory, during the period under review, to obtain the bishop’s consent (or the pope’s consent if exempted from episcopal jurisdiction) and also to advise the king of a vacancy and secure his permission to elect a new head. The bishop, if satisfied with the outcome of the election, was required to inform the monarch of his confirmation and ask him to restore the temporalities6 which had been under royal control during the vacancy.
30 A later section of the document gives an unusual example of the first person singular: And now ladies because dame Margaret dovyne president hath also given hur voice to the seide dame Elene Hillarde so I the said dame Margaret Bruster declar and showe . . 32 This can be seen as an example of the increasing sophistication of record-keeping in general. 33 Under normal circumstances, the appointment of the superior was a lifetime commission, although either advanced age or infirmity could precipi- 29 30 31 32 33 GL, MS 9531/9 The Register of Richard Fitzjames (1506–22), fol.
This enabled the final selection of Dame Helen Hyllard as prioress. Dame Brewster observes that Helen was: chosyn priorisse . . by the way of scrutenye . . 30 A later section of the document gives an unusual example of the first person singular: And now ladies because dame Margaret dovyne president hath also given hur voice to the seide dame Elene Hillarde so I the said dame Margaret Bruster declar and showe . . 32 This can be seen as an example of the increasing sophistication of record-keeping in general.
