Anti-Corn Law League. 1839-46. Cobden and Bright’s pacifist movement for Free Trade, public education, against social reform and Chartists. Corn Laws.

Corn Laws. 1804-15. British agricultural price support. Repeal, 1846, marks transformation from agricultural to industrial priorities and free trade.

Peel, Robert. 1788-1850. English Prime Minister 1834~46. London police force 1829. Income Tax 1842. Founded Conservative Party. Bank Charter Act. Repealed Corn Laws 1846.

Birch, Samuel. 1869-1955. English Cornish landscape painter.

Black Friday. Sept 24, 1869. Fisk corners gold. US market collapses.

Breton. Language of Brittany, Cornwall.

Bright, John. 1811-89. English Quaker MP: Free Trade Movement. Cobden. Anti-Corn Law.

Cobden, Richard. 1804-65. British Radical MP. Anti-Corn Law League.

Corneille, Pierre. 1606-84. French tragic playwright. La Veuve 1634. Nicomède 1636. Le Cid 1637.

Cornish. -1780. Celtic language. Breton.

Cornwallis, Charles. 1738-1805. British General. Ended American Revolution by surrender at Yorktown.

Cornwallis Code. 1793. For civil servants in India. No private trade. No Indians in important posts.

Drebbel, Cornelis. 1572-1633. Dutch inventor. Submarine 1620.

Fisk, James. 1834-72. Flamboyant US financier. Attempt to corner gold market led to Black Friday 1869.

Jansen, Cornelis. 1585-1638. Dutch theologian whose theses created Jansenism. Augustinus 1640.

Laurens, Henry. 1724-92. US President of Continental Congress 1777-8. Captured by British. Exchanged for Cornwallis.

Miller, Henry. 1891-1980. US autobiographical novelist. Tropic of Cancer 1934. Tropic of Capricorn 1939. Works banned in US for sexual content until 1964.

Unicorn. Mythical subject of art 400BC-Middle Ages.

Alfonso X (the Wise). 1221-84. King of León and Castile. Codified laws, first history of Spain.

Alien Registration Act. 1940. Outlaws advocating violent overthrow of US government. Extended to include all advocates of Communism. McCarthy.

Antinomianism. 16C Belief that some Christians by special faith need not obey Old Testament moral laws.

Black Codes. 1865-6. Strict US local laws to control blacks based on slave codes. Freedmen. Jim Crow.

Blue Laws. US laws that control Sunday activities. 1781 originals on blue paper.

Bode, Johann. 1747-1826. German astronomer: Laws of planetary distances, 1766.

Brehon Laws. (Feinechus) 8-17C. Irish legal system.

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