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W. Parish. xiv + (1) + xxviii + 138 pp. Map. Fol. Lewes. 1886 51. Warwickshire. Domesday Book for the County of Warwick, translated by W. Reader. XXX + 93 pp., 4to., Coventry, 1835; 2nd edit., viii+ 38 pp., 4to., Warwick. [1879] 52. Wiltshire extracted from Domesday Book. To which is added an English translation, by H. P. Wyndham. xlii + 535 pp. 8vo. Salisbury.

53.

1788

Domesday for Wiltshire, accompanied with Translations, Illustrative Notes, Analysis of Contents, and General Introduction, by W. H. Jones. lxxvii + 255 pp. 4to. Bath.

1865

54. Worcestershire. Literal Extension of the Latin Text; and an English translation of Domesday Book in relation to the County of Worcester. By W. B. Sanders. To accompany the facsimile photo-zincographed copy. (4) +50 pp. Fol. Worcester.

1864

55. Yorkshire. [Gale (R.)] Registrum Honoris de Richmond, exhibens Terrarum et Villarum quæ quondam fuerunt Edwini comitis infra Richmondshire descriptionem, ex Libro Domesday. Fol.

56.

1722

Skaife (R. H.) Translation of Domesday Book for Yorkshire. 8vo.

Reprinted from Yorkshire Archæological Society's Journal, vols. 13 and 14.

Sect. V.-VARIOUS.

1. Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds preserved in H.M. Record Office. 6 vols. 1890 2. Calendars of Charters and Rolls in the Bodleian Library. 8vo.

3. Calendar of the Lancashire Assize Rolls in the Public Record Office, London; transcribed by John Parker. 2 parts. (Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society, vols. 47, 49.) 1904-05

4. Hardy (Sir T. D.) Syllabus (in English) of the documents relating to England and other kingdoms contained in "Rymer's Foedera." 2 vols. 4to. (Calendars of State Papers, vol. 1, 1066-1377; vol. 2, 1377-1654.)

1869-73

5.

Index of Ancient Petitions of the Chancery and of the
Exchequer preserved in the Public Record Office. Fol.

1892

6. Lancashire and Cheshire Records in the Public Record Office, London; edited by W. D. Selby. 2 parts. 8vo. (Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society, vols. 7, 8.)

1882-3

7. List and Index of Admiralty Records in H.M. Record Office. Vol. 1. Fol.

8.

1904 List and Index of Court Rolls in the Public Record Office. Part I. Fol.

1896

9.

List and Index of Placita de Banco, 1327-28. 2 parts.

Fol.

1910

10.

List of Plea Rolls of Various Courts in Public Record Office, fol., 1894. Revised edition, 8vo. 1910

11.

12.

13.

List and Index of Proceedings in the Court of Requests in
the Public Record Office. Vol. 1. 8vo.
1906
Index of Proceedings in the Court of Star Chamber in the
Public Record Office. Vol. 1, 1485-1558. 8vo. 1901
William Salt Archæological Society. Collections for a
History of Staffordshire. 8vo.
1881 (current)

This series includes Pipe Rolls, Cartularies, Plea Rolls, Final Concords, Hundred Rolls, De Banco and Coram Rege Rolls, etc.

14. Rotuli Selecti ad Res Anglicas et Hibernicas spectantes ex Archivis in Domo Capitulari Westm. deprompti. Edited by J. Hunter. 8vo.

1834

CHAPTER V.

THE CONSTITUTION.

1.

2.

Sect. I.-GENERAL.

Adams (G. B.) Constitutional History of England. x + 518 pp. 8vo. [U.S.A.]

[1921]

The Origin of the English Constitution. 378 pp. 8vo. New Haven. London.

1912

A study by the Yale Professor of History, embodying matter which appeared in the American Historical Review and the English Historical Review, the purposes of which is to point out the feudal origin of the English Constitution-the transition in fundamental principle being effected by Magna Charta.

and Stephens (W. M.) Select Documents of English Constitutional History. xx + 555 pp. 8vo. New York.

1901

4. Ascham (A.) Discourse; wherein is examined what is particularly lawful during the Confusions and Revolutions of Government, or how farre a man may lawfully conforme to the Powers and Commands of those who hold Kingdomes divided by Civill or Forreigne Warres; likewise whether the nature of Warre be inconsistent with the nature of the Christian Religion. (24) 143 pp., 16mo., 1648; 16mo.

1649

5. [Atwood (W.)] Jani Anglorum facies Nova: or, Several Monuments of Antiquity touching the Great Councils of the Kingdom, and the Court of the King's immediate Tenants and Officers, from the first of William the First to the forty-ninth of Henry the Third, reviv'd and clear'd. (2) + 266 pp. 12mo. London. 1680 Written in reply to Pettyt's Ancient Rights of the Commons. Reviewed in Brady, R., Jani Anglorum facies Antiqua.

6.

Jus Anglorum ab Antiquo: or, Confutation of an Impotent Libel against the Government by Kings, Lords, and Commons, under pretence of answering Mr. Petyt and the author of Jani Anglorum facies Nova,

with a speech according to the answerer's principles made for the Parliament at Oxford. [By William Atwood.] (35) +224 + (1) + 27 pp. 4to.

1681

7. Bacon (Sir F.) History of the Reign of Henry VII. 248 pp., fol., 1622, 1629, 1641, 1676; 8vo.

8.

1881

It contains a careful note of all the legislation of the reign, it shews the diplomatic and international law developments of the Tudor period, and it discusses the value of "Sovereignty.

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Bacon's summary of the legal and constitutional changes of Henry VII. is masterly; it is even more complete-within the narrow compass--than that of any successor.

(N.) Historical Discourse of the Uniformity of the Government of England, from the First Times till the End of the Reigne of Queene Elizabeth, 2 vols., 4to., 1647-51; 2 parts in 1 vol., fol., 1689 (each part has title page dated 1682); 2 parts in 1 vol., fol., 1739; 2 parts in 1 vol., fol. 1760 This work is highly praised by the Earl of Chatham in his Letters to his Nephew. It was secretly reprinted in 1672 and in 1682, for which editions the publishers were prosecuted.

9. Betham (Sir W.) Origin and History of the Constitution of England, and of the early parliaments of Ireland. 8vo. Dublin.

10.

11.

12.

1834 Boutmy (E.) Développement de la constitution et de la société politique en Angleterre. 8vo., Paris, 1887; translated by I. M. Eaden, xvii + 212 pp., 8vo. 1891 Bowen (F.) Documents of the Constitution of England and America, from Magna Charta to the Federal Constitution of 1789. vii + 142 pp. 8vo. Cambridge.

1854 Brief Enquiry into the Ancient Constitution and Government of England, as well in respect of the Administration as Succession thereof; by a True Lover of his Country. (10) + 101 pp. 16mo.

13. Brodie (G.)

1695

Constitutional History of the British Empire from the Accession of Charles I. to the Restoration. 3 vols. 8vo.

1866

14. Büdinger (M.) Vorlesungen über Englische Verfassungsgeschichte. x + 341 pp. 8vo. Wien.

15.

Chaloner (T.) Tractatus de

1880

Republica Anglorum instauranda libri decem. 4to. 379 pp. Pr. by T.

Vautrollier.

1579

See a further description of this very curious book in Ames, v. ii. 1070.

16. [Cock (C. G.)] English-Law; or, Summary Survey of the Houshold of God on earth, and that both before and under the Law, and that both of Moses and Jesus, with an essay of Christian Government. Under the regiment of our Lord and King. (20) + 194 + (1) pp. 4to.

1651

17. [Cotton (Sir R. B.)] The Forme of Governement of the Kingdome of England. . . . Wherein is manifested the customary uses of the Kings of England upon all occasions, either of Marriage, Peace or Warre, to call their Peeres and Barons of the Realme to be bartners [sic] in Treatizes, and to give their juditious advice.

4to.

1642

18. Creasy (Sir E. S.) Rise and Progress of the English Constitution. 8vo., 1853; 4th edit., xii + 400 pp., 1858; 7th edit., 8vo., 1862; 14th edit., 8vo.

1880

19. Crompton (R.) The Mansion of Magnanimitie. Wherein is shewed the acts of sundry English Kings, etc., in defence of their countrie, etc. Whereunto is also adjoyned a collection of diverse lawes and statutes, etc., with a briefe table shewing what munition ought to be kept by all sorts of her Majestie's subjects for the defence of her realmes. 4to. 1599

20.

Short declaration of the ende of traytors, etc., and of the duetie of subjects to their souueraigne. Wherein are also breefely touched sundry offences of the S. Queene cômitted against the crowne of this land, and the manner of the honorable proceding for her conviction thereof, etc. 4to. Charlewood. 1587

21. [De Lolme (J. L.)] Rise and Progress of the English Constitution; with historical and legal introduction and notes by A. J. Stephens. 2 vols. clxxxi + (2) + 1139 pp. 8vo.

1838

22. Eliot (Sir J.) De Jure Maiestatis: or, Political Treatise of Government (1628-30). And Letter-Book (1625-32). Edited by A. B. Grosart. 2 vols. xxiii + 188, ix + Fac-sims. 8vo.

236 pp.

1882

23. Enquiry into the Ancient Constitution and Government of England. 8vo.

1695

24. Floyd (J.) Picture of a Perfect Commonwealth. 16mo. S. Stafford.

1600

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