This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 edition. Excerpt: ...bishops by themselves, the lords by themselves, and the commons by themselves, consulted and advised the king touching the war with Scotland.' So that in reality, the caily parliaments of England consisted, not of one house, but of three houses."-.Edward Baines. g Archtoologia. There were also in these ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 edition. Excerpt: ...bishops by themselves, the lords by themselves, and the commons by themselves, consulted and advised the king touching the war with Scotland.' So that in reality, the caily parliaments of England consisted, not of one house, but of three houses."-.Edward Baines. g Archtoologia. There were also in these boroughs return of individual members, and even to the suppression of the writ, in the case of an intractable borough. In the seventeenth year of the reign of Edward II., the high sheriff of the county of Lancaster, by a singular act of presumption, claimed for himself the right to the selection of members to represent the county. In the following reign, (thirty-sixth Edward III., ) this stretch of arbitrary power was even exceeded by the audacity of the under sheriffs, Edras Lawrence and Mathew Risheton, who elected themselves, and pocketed the expenses amounting to 18. 16s. This being complained of, writs of enquiry were issued by the king. The investigation resulted in the unseating of these worthies, by authority of the crown. The Norman princes, as well as the Stuarts, frequently testified their notion that a parliament was merely a convenience to aid the monarch in carrying out the behests of his individual will. Richard II., in 1398, summoned the sheriffs, and with unparalleled autocratic insolence charged them to permit of the election of no one who would not promise to agree to the measures of the king. This imbecile monarch, had the daring hardihood to ask of the sheriffs what force each county could furnish, as he proposed raising an army to punish such of his subjects who should act in opposition to his wishes. His solemn impeachment and deposition was the first act of the first "free parliament" called by...
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