Raines definition

He was a Republican representative in Congress in 1879-1881, United States minister to France in 1881-1885, vice-president of the United States during the presidency of Benjamin Harrison in 1889-1893, and in1895-1896was governor of New York, signing as such the "Greater New York" bill and the liquor-tax measure kliown as the "Raines law."

Contemporary are the Letters of Grosseteste, and a little later come the Letters of Archbishop Peckham and Raines Letters from Northern Registers (all in the Rolls series).