Example sentences of "fifteenth century the " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries the verderers , regarders and agisters usually held office for life , provided that they discharged their duties faithfully and well , but in the fifteenth century the authority of the verderer , like that of the coroner , was brought to an end by the death of the king , and the sheriffs were ordered to hold new elections . |
| 2 | In the fifteenth century the Italian humanists introduced considerable refinement , the ‘ humanistic minuscule ’ was gradually adopted throughout the Christian world , and became the cursive hand which was eventually termed ‘ italic ’ . |
| 3 | By the fifteenth century the King of England was Lord of Ireland , though his new territory was separate enough to have its own parliament , whose power was reduced but not eliminated by Poyning 's Law of 1495 , which forbade it to pass any law that had not been approved in advance by the King and his council . |
| 4 | Designed to nip in the bud any incipient growth in villages , it was successful , so far as the city was concerned , probably because it did no more than sanction the existing situation , even though in the fifteenth century the trade had flourished at Hartlebury , which remained an important centre of the specialised craft of fulling . |
| 5 | By the early fifteenth century the Exchequer had become so overcommitted that creditors had to queue for payment , and a creditor 's place in the queue was determined as much as anything by political favour . |
| 6 | By the fifteenth century the higher ranks of the nobility had taken over again . |
| 7 | In the fifteenth century the problem became more acute . |
| 8 | Towards the end of the fifteenth century the King was beginning to lose his power to amend a statute after it had passed both Houses : the statute as presented to him was coming to be regarded as the final legal form , which he could only reject or accept in toto . |
| 9 | By the end of the fifteenth century the royal Household was divided into two principal sections , Domus Regiae Magnificenciae and Domus Providenciae , the world of display and the world of provisioning : or , as they were later called , the Chamber and the Household-below-Stairs . |
| 10 | But what er what happened is when they rebuilt this building in the fifteenth century the masons found these and reused them reset them inside because they 'd lost their significance in over the three hundred years , so but they were useful structural er things . |
| 11 | By the fifteenth century the growing wealth of towns was reflected in the municipal buildings . |
| 12 | In the late fifteenth century the new centre of power and culture in a unified Russia was being established in Moscow . |
| 13 | Precisely when this occurred can seldom be determined on any estates , because there are few series of complete manorial records , but it is safe to say that by the early fifteenth century the change had taken place widely on both lay and ecclesiastical lands , the latter being better documented over different parts of the country . |
| 14 | It is when one recognizes the variations in peasant advancement among even individuals in a single community , as well as from one village or one region to another , that one appreciates the need for caution in calling the fifteenth century the golden age of the English labourer . |
| 15 | By the beginning of the fifteenth century the wool Staple was fixed at Calais , where it remained . |