INDEX.

Act, Five Mile, 190.
Grenville, 119.

Habeas Corpus, 202.
Licensing, 103.

Municipal Corporations, 201.
Mutiny, 235.

of Settlement, 228.

Septennial, 179.
of Sir R. Peel, 120.
of Supremacy, 191.
Test, 191.
Toleration, 239.

of Uniformity, 190.

of 1868 on election petitions, 120.

Aids, 26.

Alien friend, 247.

enemy, 247.

Allegiance, 244.

Appropriation of supplies, 93.

Arrest, freedom from, 84.

summary of cases on, 86.

Arundel, Earl of, his committal to the Tower, 104.

Ashby v. White, 100, 128.

Attack on the Corporations, 195.

Attaint, writ of, 19.

Atwell, case of, 86.

Aula Regis, 142.

Austin, Classification of Supreme Governments by, 6.

Bacon, Lord, his impeachment, 80.

Ballot Act, the, 118.

Bankers, case of the, 247.

Barebones' Parliament, 186.

Barnstaple, 68.

Blackstone, classification of legislative improvements in time of Ed-

ward I. by, 51.

Bocland, 20.

Boroughs, ancient, in whom elective franchise vested, 99.

creation of, 97.

representation of, 64.

Bristol, Earl of, refusal of a writ of summons to, 105.

Buckingham, impeachment of, 80.

Burdett v. Abbott, 127.

Bushell, case of, 18.

Cabinet council, 230.

Cæsar, Julius, 8.

Calvin, case of, 243.

Case of sheriff of Middlesex, 131.

Catholic Relief Act, 239.

emancipation, 240.

Cavendish, case of, 157.

Ceorls, 10.

Chancery, court of, 43.

Charles I., 168.

rules absolutely, 172.

Charles II., 189.

Charter, the Great, Hallam's summary of, 47.

Mackintosh on the, 50.

confirmed by Edward I., 51.

charter of forests, 51.

charter of Henry I., 29.

Chartists, petition of, 218.

Chief justiciar, the, 39.

office abolished by Edward I., 43.
Justice of England, the Lord, 43.

Cities and boroughs, representation of, 64.

Courts of law, how far they can control privileges of parliament, 124.

Council of Northampton, 42.

the cabinet council, 230.

the privy council, 229.

the great council, 61.

County court, 13.

Crisis of 1688..220.

Cromwell, 185.

his powers, 186.

Crusades, the, 28.

Curia Regis, 39.

how distinguished from the great council, 40.
its connection with the Court of Star Chamber, 142.

Danby, Earl, his impeachment, 80.

Darnel, case of, 169.

Debates, publication of, 121.

Denizen, what, 245.

Denman, Lord, C. J., judgment in Stockdale v. Hansard, 125.
Difficulties, constitutional, at Revolution, 225.

of William III., 234.

Disfranchising statute, the first, 95.

Dispensing power, the, 213.

Dissent, right of lords to enter, on journals of house, 106.

Earl of Arundel, arrest of, 104.

of Bristol, refusal to send writ of summons to, 105.
of Middlesex, his impeachment, 80.

Edward I., changes introduced by, 51.

Edward II., 56.

Edward VI., creation of boroughs in reign of, 97.
repeal of statutes in reign of, 149.

Elections, disputed, 91.

petitions, 119.

Electors, qualification of, 94.

Eliott, Sir T., case of, 89.

Elizabeth, civil government of, 152.

creation of boroughs in reign of, 97.

Entick v. Carrington, 248.

Equality, civil, to what attributable, 59.

Escheat, 27.

Exchequer, court of, 40.

Expenditure, directing and checking of, 77.

Eyre, justices in, 41.

Fee-farm, towns let to, 65.

Ferrers, case of, 86.

Feudal system, description of, 25.

fully established at Conquest, 25.
how far in existence previously, 24.

how different from that on the Continent, 27.

incidents, 26.

tenures, abolished by convention parliament, 188.

Fine, 27.

Fines, Statute of, 141.

Fitzharris, impeachment of, 82.

Five Mile Act, 190.

Folcland, 20.

Forest laws, 173.

Fox, his Libel Act, 195.

Franchise, elective, in whom vested in ancient boroughs, 99.

George III., religious toleration extended to Roman Catholics in reign

of, 240.

Gifts in mortmain forbidden by statute, 54.

Goodwin, case of, 92.

Gordon, Lord George, his petition, 217.

Government by party, 120.

Governments, Austin's classification of, 6.

Governor, civil liability of, 249.

criminal liability of, 250.

not a viceroy, 249.

summary of law as to, 252.

Grenville's Act, 119.

Great council, 62.

Grievances, supply to depend on redress of, 77.

Habeas Corpus, Act of, 202.

Hall, his case, 92.

Hallam, summary of provisions of the Great Charter by, 47.

Hansard (see STOCKDALE v. HANSARD).