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Title: View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 (of 3)

Author: Henry Hallam

Release Date: August 26, 2010 [EBook #33540]

Language: English

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VIEW

OF

THE STATE OF EUROPE

DURING

THE MIDDLE AGES.

BY HENRY HALLAM, LL.D., F.R.A.S.,

FOREIGN ASSOCIATE OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE.

IN THREE VOLUMES.--VOL. III.

_NEW EDITION._

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1860.

_The right of Translation is reserved._

PRINTED BY W. CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.

CONTENTS

OF

THE THIRD VOLUME.

CHAPTER VIII.

PART III.

THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION.

Reign of Edward I.--Confirmatio Chartarum--Constitution of Parliament
--the Prelates--the temporal Peers--Tenure by Barony--its Changes--
Difficulty of the Subject--Origin of Representation of the Commons--
Knights of Shires--their Existence doubtfully traced through the Reign
of Henry III.--Question whether Representation was confined to Tenants
in capite discussed--State of English Towns at the Conquest and
afterwards--their Progress--Representatives from them summoned to
Parliament by Earl of Leicester--Improbability of an earlier Origin
--Cases of St. Albans and Barnstaple considered--Parliaments under
Edward I.--Separation of Knights and Burgesses from the Peers--Edward
II.--Gradual Progress of the Authority of Parliament traced through the
reigns of Edward III. and his Successors down to Henry IV.--Privilege
of Parliament--the early Instances of it noticed--Nature of Borough
Representation--Rights of Election--other Particulars relative to
Election--House of Lords--Baronies by Tenure--by Writ--Nature of the
latter discussed--Creation of Peers by Act of Parliament and by Patent
--Summons of Clergy to Parliament--King's Ordina