The manors emerged in the 17th century as noblemen feoffs.

On 30 June 1688, a group of seven Protestant nobles invited the Prince of Orange to come to England with an army.

You know the kind of thing a commencement address is, and graduation ceremonies, those lyrical claims that education, the process of education particularly higher education will make us into nobler and better human beings.

Margaret and the irreconcilable Lancastrian nobles gathered their army in the north of England, and when York moved north to suppress them, he and his second son Edmund were killed at the Battle of Wakefield in December 1460.

The predictable initial response is to dismiss the possibility out of hand. As Australia s wartime prime minister, Ben Chifley, once famously remarked, The trouble with gentleman s agreements is that there aren t enough bloody gentlemen.