Table of Contents: Select documents of English constitutional history

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.

Table of Contents:

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.

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