History of the City of Chester, from Its Foundation to the Present Time: With an Account of Its Antiquities, Curiosities, Local Customs, and Peculiar Immunities; And a Concise Political History
History of the City of Chester, from Its Foundation to the Present Time: With an Account of Its Antiquities, Curiosities, Local Customs, and Peculiar Immunities; And a Concise Political History
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. 1831 edition. Excerpt: ... political isttorp of t&e Cttp of While the feudal system continued to prevail in England, local comrnunities, in various districts of the country, were mostly subject to the controul of the great barons, who exercised a kind of demi.regal authority over them, and left the people no choice but ...
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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. 1831 edition. Excerpt: ... political isttorp of t&e Cttp of While the feudal system continued to prevail in England, local comrnunities, in various districts of the country, were mostly subject to the controul of the great barons, who exercised a kind of demi.regal authority over them, and left the people no choice but submission to their arbitrary mandates. When this system, however, fell into disuse, and the principles of freedom became better understood, a more unrestricted exercise of civil and political rights followed. This favourable result was particularly developed in the privilege conceded to the people, of choosing their representatives to the great council of the nation, to whom was confided the authority of making the laws. In the reign of Henry VI. the boundary of this right was fixed onthe basis upon which it at present stands. The most remarkable law which passed in this reign, was for the due election of members of parliament in counties. After the feudal system, the distinction of tenures was in some measure lost; and every freeholder, as well as those who held of mesne lords, as the immediate tenants of the crown, were by degrees admitted to give thenvotes at elections. This extension of the elective franchise was indirectly confirmed by a law of Henry IV. which gave right to such a multitude of electors as was the occasion of great disorders. In the eighth and tenth of the Sixth Henry, therefore, laws were enacted limiting the electors to such as possessed forty shillings a year in land, free from all burdens within the county. This sum was equivalent to near twenty pounds a year of our present money; and it were to be wished, that the spirit, as well as the letter of this law, had been maintained. The preamble of the statute is remarkable: --..".
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