Commons, house of, preponderance of Crown, the, constitutional functions of, 507 influence of, 510. power of, 530. Comptroller of accounts, 150. the household, 150. Conference between the two houses, 477. Conflict between the judicature and par- Congé d'élire, 216. Conservatives, 551. Consistory Court, 277. Constables, 323, 386. Constitution, the, its antiquity, 4. Constitutional records, none extant, 3. Contempt of court, 234. Convention parliaments, 408. Convocation, 220. decline of, 221. of Canterbury, 220. last year's proceedings, 222. Copyhold enclosures, 186. Copyholders, 62. Corodies, 490. Coronation, 132. oath, 133. Coroner, the, 305. Coroner's inquest, 305. Corporate towns, 329, 363. Corporation and Test Act, 77. 398, 401, and seq. and parliament, communica- tion between, 480. prosecutions, 257. Curia regis, 238, 392. DANBY, impeachment of, 504. Deans, 218. Delolme on parliament, 448. Denization, 42. Department of Practical Science, 185. Deputies, independence of, 399. of the county, 393. towns and boroughs, 393. Deputy Judge-Advocate-General, 275. Difference, points of, between the English and Roman churches, 206. Discipline of the army, 192. Diseases Prevention Act, 360. Disraeli on the Reform Bill, 440. Dissenters, political rights of, 85. Dissolution of Parliament, 414. Dissolutions, frequent, of late years, 527. abolition of, 85. Divisions in parliament, 468. Cottages, destruction of, 319. Counsel, 254. Count out, 463. Counties, the, 373. Counties and their subdivisions, 295. Counties palatine, 299. County, the, 340. court, 252. police, 386. rates, 374. Court, the, 105. baron, 339. leets, 299, 338. of Arches, 256, 277. Chivalry, 245. Discipline, 278. Probate, 248. Courts martial, 275. of Conscience, 336. Spiritual and Temporal, 276. Criminal Appeal, court of, 244. Cromwell's reform of parliament, 434. loss of, 129. Elections, interference with the freedom Fortescue on parliament, 448. of, 433. Electoral corruption, 431. qualification, 438. rights in towns, 424. Electors, list of, 441. mandates from, 399. small number of in certain bo- roughs, 427. Forty-shilling freeholders, 422. Fox's Libel Bill, 95, 263. France, centralization of government in, 22. land, 16. feudal polity in, 50. Franchises, 338. Ellesmere, Lord Chancellor, and Lord Frank pledge, 296. Coke, 267. Ely, Isle of, 563. Enfranchisement of towns, 424. England, representation of in parliament, 436. English freedom, character of, 37. ment, 91. press disparaged by parlia English Reformation, character of the, 203. Freemen, 438. Entail of property, 51. Episcopal election, 216. Episcopal sees in colonies, 570. jurisdiction, extent of, 269. Equitable jurisdiction, 32. Equity, 51. meaning of, 266. Courts, 237, 266. Escheat, 491. Esquires, 61. Estrays, 491. Established Church, the, 87. European possessions, 561. Gilbert's Act, 350. Government Board, 188. Governor-General of India, 571. Governors of Colonies, 570. Grand Jury, 259. Grenville Act, 443. Guiana, constitution of, 570. HABEAS Corpus Act, 102. Hale, Lord, on Roman and canon law, 34. Sir Matthew, on parliament, 448. Harbours, 139. Heir apparent, 149. Henry VI., minority of, 142. policy, defective control over, 537. Henry VIII. and the Reformation, 204. Secretary, 182. troops, 198. in England, 523. Foreigners, authority over, 138. rights of, 41. Forfeiture of land, 141. Forfeitures, 491. Fortescue on the English constitution, 11. Heretics, statute of Henry V. against, 75. High Admiral, 188. Constables, 323. treason, 141. Highways Act, 385. rate, 321. surveyors of, 321. Hobart on the power of parliament, 486. Hobhouse's Act, 345. Initiative, the, pertains to the ministry, 521. Inspectors of education, 173. its union with Great Britain, 567. 429, 137. electoral law, 439. Irresponsibility of the Sovereign, 135. JACOBITES, democracy of the, 547. Jamaica, constitution of, 571. Jervis's Act, 378. Jews, laws concerning the, 86. Commissions, 240. during the last century, 236. Judicature, the, 229. KEEPER OF THE KING'S CONSCIENCE, 266. King, the Saxon, 121. the Norman, 121. the, subject to the law, 121. the, not a Grand Elector, 125. presence of, in the courts, 238. Kingdom, the, by the grace of God, 124. confessor, the, 266. evil, touching for, 127. Kneeling at the bar of the house, 458. Banneret, 61. of the Bath, 61. of the Shire, 393, 423. courts, 245. rating, 289. statutes, 30. London, 335. aldermen, 371. boroughs, population of, 363. magistrates, 368. Fire-engine system, 369. Lord Chamberlain, 150, 162. his position in the House of Peers, 420. High Constable, 162. High Steward's Court, 286, 504. Lieutenant, 290, 308. of Ireland, 182. More, Sir Thomas, execution of, 500. corporations, 291. Mutual warranty, 257. NATIONAL Debt, the, 497. New Church Building Act, 348. New Poor Law, 350. New South Wales, Constitution of, 573. New Zealand Constitution, 575. Nicholas, the Emperor, 110. Nisi Prius, 240. Nizamut Adawlut, 579. Nobility not a caste in contemplation of Nonconformists, penal laws against, 76. North and Fox, coalition of, 512. Nuisances Removal Act, 349, 360. expenses of, 448. expulsion of, 444. Old Sarum, 425. persons unquali- fied for, 433. Merton College, 223. Metropolis, the, 368. Metropolitan Board of Works, 369. Police, 368. Military courts, 275. promotion, 196. Militia, the, 189, 309. Milton on freedom of the press, 90. Ministers, dismissal of, 510, 524. responsibility of, 502. Ministry, downfall of a, 542. Mint, the, 178. Mis-alliance, unknown to law, 55. Mistress of the Robes, 150. Montesquieu on the laws against Roman |