Description: Select documents of English constitutional history

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Select documents of English constitutional history

Main Author:	Adams, George Burton, 1851-1925.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : London : The Macmillan Company; Macmillan & Co., ltd., 1937, c1901.
Physical Description:	xviii, 555 pages ; 21 cm.
Subjects:	Constitutional history -- Great Britain -- Sources. Constitutional law -- Great Britain.

Item Description:	Ordinance separating the spiritual and temporal courts -- 1080. Writ for an inquest of lands at Ely -- 1086. Title of the domesday inquest for Ely -- 1086. Typical domesday entries -- 1095. Writ applying feudal principles to the church -- 1096. An early Iter -- 1100. Charter of liberties -- Writ concerning lands -- Writ concerning lands -- 1135. First charter -- 1136. Second charter -- 1154. A trial in the Curia Regis -- 1164. Constitutions of Clarendon -- 1166. Assize of Clarendon -- 1170. Inquest of the sheriffs -- 1176. Assize of Northampton -- 1181. Assize of arms -- 1184. Assize of the forest or of Woodstock -- 1188. Ordinance of the Saladin tithe -- Writ praecipe -- 1194. Form of proceeding on the judicial visitation -- 1199. Coronation of John -- 1207. Writ for the assessment of the thirteenth -- Recognitions, Assizes, and the jury -- 1213. Concession of the Kingdom to the Pope -- 1213. Writ of summons -- 1213. Writ of summons to a great council -- 1214. Grant of freedom of election to churches -- 1215. Great charter of liberties (Magna Charta) -- 1220. Writ for the collection of a carrucage -- 1231. Writ for the assembling of the county court before the judges itinerant -- 1235. Writ for the collection of scutage -- 1254. Writ of summons for two knights of the shire to grant an aid -- 1258. Provisions of Oxford -- 1259. Provisions of the Barons or of Westminster -- 1265. Confirmation of the charters -- 1275. Statutes of Westminster; The First -- 1275. Grant of custom on wool, woolfells, and leather -- 1278. Writ for the distraint of knighthood -- 1279. Statute of Mortmain or De Religiosis -- 1283. Statute of Merchants, or of Acton Burnell -- 1285. Statutes of Westminster; The Second -- 1285. Statute of Winchester -- 1285. Statute of Circumspect Agatis -- 1290. Statutes of Westminster; The Third: Quia Emptores -- 1295. Writs of summons to Parliament -- 1296. Bull 2Clericis Laicos3 -- 1297. Confirmatio Cartarum -- 1297. De Tallagio non Concedendo -- 1307. Statute of Carlisle -- 1311. New ordinances -- 1316. Articuli Cleri -- 1322. Revocation of the new ordinances -- 1324. Statute concerning the lands of the Templars -- 1327. Articles of Accusation against Edward II -- 1328. Statute of Northampton -- 1330. Statute concerning justices and sheriffs -- 1340. Presentment of Englishry abolished and grant of a subsidy -- 1340. Unauthorized charges and taxes abolished -- 1340. England not to be subject to the King as King of France -- 1341. Inquiry into accounts -- 1341. An act to secure the rights of peers and others, and to secure the responsibility of the King's ministers -- 1341. Revocation of the preceding statute -- 1343. An act regulating the coinage -- 1343. Attempts to tax through the merchants resisted -- 1344. Grant of a subsidy for two years -- 1348. Grant on conditions -- 1349. An ordinance concerning laborers and servants -- 1351. Statute of laborers -- 1351. Statute of Provisors of Benefices -- 1352. Statute of treasons -- 1353. Statute of praemunire -- 1353. Ordinance of the staples -- 1353. Protest of parliament against legislation by ordinance -- 1354. Certain ordinances confirmed by parliament -- 1361. An act concerning justices of the peace -- 1362. Purveyance, English to be used in the courts, etc -- 1366. Refusal of tribute to the pope -- 1372. Lawyers and sheriffs excluded from parliament -- 1372. Grant of tonnage and poundage by citizens and burgesses alone -- 1376. Impeachment of Richard Lyons -- 1377. Grant of a poll tax and petition for special treasurers -- 1377. Persons appointed to supervise expenditures -- 1378. Account of expenditures required by parliament -- 1379. King orders accounts submitted to parliament -- 1379. Poll tax of 1379 -- 1380. Poll tax of 1380 -- 1382. Merchants to use English ships only. Charters granted to the peasants annulled -- 1382. An act against heretical preaching -- 1385. An act to reform the administration of justice -- 1385. An act regarding fugitive villeins [sic] -- 1386. Articles of impeachment against Suffolk -- 1386. Threat to depose Richard II -- 1390. Second Statue of Provisors -- 1390. Statute of Maintenance and Livery -- 1392. Conveyances to the uses of religious houses and other corporations forbidden, etc -- 1393. Second Statute of Praemunire -- 1397. New definition of treason -- 1398. Delegation of powers by Parliament of Shrewsbury -- 1398. Grant of subsidy for life to Richard II by Parliament of Shrewsbury -- 1399. Resignation of Richard II -- 1399. Deposition of Richard II and election of Henry IV -- 1399. An act for the security of the subject and it repeal of the acts of the parliament of Shrewsbury -- 1399. Haxey's case -- 1401. Statute De Haeretico Comburendo -- 1401. Sir Arnold Savage asks for the privileges of parliament -- 1401. Members excused for matters spoken in parliament -- 1401. Responses to the petitions of the commons -- 1406. Act to regulate the succession -- 1406. Manner of electing knights of the shire -- 1407. Commons to originate money bills -- 1410. Act restraining abuses by the sheriffs in election returns -- 1413. Grant of subsidy and tonnage and poundage -- 1413. Residence required of knights of the shire and of their electors -- 1414. Confiscation of the alien priories -- 1414. King agrees not to alter the petitions of the commons -- 1415. Grant of a subsidy and tonnage and poundage for life -- 1422. Government during the minority of Henry VI -- 1428. Definition of the powers of the duke of Gloucester as protector -- 1429. Electors of knights of the shire must be forty shilling freeholders -- 1429. Larke's case; privileges of member's servants -- 1437. Act against smuggling -- 1439. Against abuse in appointment of justices of the peace -- 1445. Qualifications of knights of the shire -- 145j0. Attainder of John Cade -- 1460. Privilege of members from arrest; Clerk's case -- 1460. Recognition of the Duke of York as heir to the throne -- 1461. Act declaring valid acts of Lancastrian kings -- 1467. Treaty of commerce with Burgundy -- 1484. Confirmation of Richard's title -- 1484. Grant of subsidy -- 1484. An act to free subjects form benevolences -- 1485. Recognition of the title of Henry VII -- 1485. An act against bringing in of Gascony wine except in English, Irish, or Welshmen's ships -- 1487. Establishment of the court of star chamber -- 1495. Allegiance to a de facto king not treason -- 1503-04. An act against unlawful retainers and liveries -- 1503-04. Reversal of attainders -- 1503-04. Grant of two aids -- 1512. Benefit of clergy denied to murderers -- 1512. Act in Strode's case -- 1514-15. Resumption of royal grants -- 1532. Conditional restraint of annates -- 1533. Act in restraint of appeals -- 1534. Ecclesiastical appointments act -- 1534. First act of succession -- 1534. Act of supremacy of Henry VIII -- 1534. Treasons act -- 1536. Act for the dissolution of the lesser monasteries -- 1536. King at twenty-four may repeal acts of parliament passed during his minority -- 1539. Lex regia -- 1539. Act for the dissolution of the greater monasteries -- 1539. Six articles act -- 1542. Attainder of Queen Katherine Howard -- 1543. Ferrers' case -- 1544. Act fixing the succession -- 1544. Act concerning treasons committed out of the realm -- 1547. Act for the dissolution of chantries -- 1549. First act of uniformity -- 1550. First mention of lords lieutenant -- 1552. Second act of uniformity -- 1553. First act of repeal -- 1554. Act for the marriage of Queen Mary to Philip of Spain -- 1554. Revival of the heresy acts -- 1554. Second act of repeal -- 1559. Act of supremacy -- 1559. Act of uniformity -- 1559. Act of recognition of the queen's title -- 1559. Treason act -- 1559. Grant of tonnage and poundage -- 1559. Establishment of the court of high commission -- 1566. Ordinance of the star chamber for the censorship of the press -- 1571. Act against bringing decrees of the pope into England -- 1571. Oath of a privy councillor -- 1574. Commission for the manumission of villeins [sic] -- 1579. Commission of a justice of the peace -- 1581. Oath of a justice of the peace -- 1586. Resolutions on the Norfolk election case -- 1601. Queen's message with regard to monopolies. 1604. Act of recognition of the king's title -- 1604. Commission for negotiating a union with Scotland -- 1604. Act in Shirley's case -- 1606. Opinions of the court of exchequer in Bates' case -- 1607. Case of prohibitions -- 1608. Judgment in the case of the post-nati, or Calvin's case -- 1610. Case of proclamations -- 1624. Act against monopolies -- 1628. Petition of right -- 1628. Remonstrance against tonnage and poundage -- 1628. King's speech proroguing parliament -- 1628-29. Protest of the house of commons -- 1634. First writ of ship-money -- 1637. Answer of the judges in the matter of ship-money -- 1640-41. Triennial act -- 1641. Protestation -- 1641. Act for attainder of Strafford -- 1641. Act against dissolving the long parliament without its own consent -- 1641. Act for abolition of the court of star chamber -- 1641. Act for the abolition of the court of high commission -- 1641. Act declaring the illegality of ship-money -- 1641. Act for the limitation of forests -- 1641. Act prohibiting the exaction of knighthood fines -- 1641. Grand remonstrance, with the petition accompanying it -- 1641. King's answer to the petition accompanying the grand remonstrance -- 1641-42. Clerical disabilities act -- 1642. Solemn league and covenant -- 1643-44. Ordinance appointing the first committee of both kingdoms -- 1645. Self-denying ordinance -- 1648-49. Act erecting a high court of justice for the trial of Charles I -- 1648-49. Sentence of the high court of justice upon the king -- 1648-49. Death warrant of Charles I -- 1648-49. Act appointing a council of state -- 1648-49. Act abolishing the office of king -- 1648-49. Act abolishing the house of lords -- 1649. Act declaring England to be a commonwealth -- 1650. Act declaring what offences shall be adjudged treason under the commonwealth -- 1653. Declaration by Oliver Cromwell and the council of officers after putting an end to the long parliament -- 1653. Instrument of government -- 1654. An ordinance by the protector for the union of England and Scotland -- 1660. Declaration of Breda -- 1660. Act abolishing relics of feudalism and fixing an excise -- 1661. Corporation act -- 1662. Last act of uniformity -- 1664. First conventicler act -- 1665. Five mile act -- 1673. Declaration of indulgence -- 1673. Test act -- 1679. Resolution concerning the royal pardon in bar of Danby's impeachment -- 1679. Exclusion bill -- 1679. Habeas corpus act -- 1682. Forfeiture of charter of London -- 1686. Hales' case: the dispensing power -- 1687. Declaration of indulgence -- 1688-89. Confirmation of the convention parliament -- 1689. Civil list -- 1689. First mutiny act -- 1689. Toleration act -- 1689. Bill of rights -- 1690. Act restoring the charter of London -- 1694. Triennial act -- 1696. Treason trials act -- 1701. Act of settlement -- 1706-07. Act of union with Scotland -- 1707. Place act -- 1715. Riot act -- 1716. Septennial act -- 1719. Peerage bill -- 1731. Use of English language in the law courts made obligatory -- 1760. Judicial commissions not to cease on the demise of the crown -- 1763. Camden's decision against general warrants -- 1764. Mansfield's decision against general warrants -- 1771. Somerset's case, Mansfield's decision -- 1780. Dunning's resolution -- 1790. Dissolution of parliament does not impair impeachment -- 1792. Fox's libel act -- 1794. Suspension of the writ of habeas corpus -- 1800. Act of union with Ireland -- 1807. Abolition of the negro slave trade -- 1821. Disenfrachisement of grampound -- 1828. Repeal of corporation and test acts -- 1829. Catholic emancipation act -- 1832. Reform act of 1832 -- 1833. Abolition of negro slaves -- 1833. Affirmation allowed instead of oath -- 1858. Jewish relief act -- 1867. Reform act of 1867 -- 1869. Disestablishment of the Irish church -- 1870. Education act -- 1872. Ballot act -- 1873. Supreme court of judicature act -- 1876. Appellate jurisdiction act -- 1877. Abolition of names of king's bench, common please, and exchequer for divisions of the high court of justice -- 1881. Abolition of certain judicial offices -- 1884. Reform act of 1884 -- 1885. Third redistribution of parliamentary seats.
Physical Description:	xviii, 555 pages ; 21 cm.