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As history grew more and more abstruse in the '60s and '70s, historians ceded the role of public intellectual to journalists.
In 1670 the Spanish officially ceded Jamaica to British rule as part of the Treaty of Madrid, and the British began a systematic process of settlement, offering land and aid to prospective settlers.
In 1128 the king, David I, ceded land to the Augustinian order for the creation of the Abbey of Holyrood.
That led in 1713 to the treaty of Utrecht under which Spain ceded its rights to Gibraltar to the British.
It was dropped at the court of Gaelic kings in favour of English about 900 years ago, perhaps to please an English queen or perhaps to ensure the retention of the English-speaking half of Northumbria ceded to Scotland.