Post-office, established by Cromwell, 109.
Poverty, increase of, under the Stuarts, 318.
Prætorian law, 31.

Preceder ce in the house of lords, 421.
Premier, the, 175.

Premiers since 1830, 540.

Premunire, 204, 276.

Prerogative, meaning of 135.
court, 278.

Preservation of the peace, 308.
Press, the, and public opinion, 555.
liberty of, 89.

penal laws against, 92.

Previous question, the, 465.
Prince Consort, the, 148, 515.
of Wales, the, 149.

Princess Royal, 149.

Principal Secretary of State, 179.

Prisoners, protection of, 99.
Prisons, 373.

Private bills, 473, 529.

Privilege, breach of, 458, 466.

Privileges, 140.

Privy Council, the, 161.

members of, 166.
duties of, 166.

the unimportance of, 170.
judicial functions of, 171.
standing committees of, 171.
Judicial Committee of, 171.

Privy councillors, nomination of, 165.

Prize Court, 281.

oath of, 166.

Probate of Wills, 250.

414.

Proclamations, 140.

Prohibition to quit the kingdom, 139.
Promotion by seniority, 159.

Property, importance of, 45.

inviolability of, 72.

Prorogation of Parliament, 413.
Protectionists, 551.

Protest against standing armies, 193.
Province of juries, 263.

Provision for the Royal family, 149.
Proxies in the house of peers, 420.
Prussian code, 31.

Act, 361.

Right not to be sent out of the king-
dom, 63.

to travel, 63.

of the sovereign to service, 40.
Rights, acquirement and loss of, 40.
and duties, 38.

Riot Act, 115.

Riotous meetings, 114.

Rolls' Court, 272.

Roman and Canon law, 33.
Law, 31.

Public health, 359.

208.

Public houses, licensing of, 70.

opinion, 555.

prosecutor, 258.

Publications, confiscation of, 97.

Publisher, the, responsible for a libel, 97.
Purchase of military commissions, 196.
Puseyites, 210.

Pyx, the, trial of the, 178.

QUALIFICATION of jurymen, 261.

439.

members of parliament,

voters, 422, 433.

distrust of, 33.

Roman Catholics, laws against, 76.
Rome, appeals to, 276, 278.
Rotten boroughs, 425, 435, 440.
Royal assent, 478.

chaplains, 151.
domains, 490.
family, the, 149.

fish, 491.

mines, 491.

power, decline of, 25.

prerogative, 507.

517.

501.

South Australia, 575.

South Sea Company, bill of pains and
penalties against, 501.

Sovereign, prerogative of the, 135.
the, irresponsible, 135.

never a minor, 136.
never dies, 137.

owner of all land, 137.

act of parliament, 139.

sheriffs of, 565.

428, 437.

bound conditionally only by

legislative power of, 138.
the head of the Church, 140.
the fountain of ecclesiastical

jurisdiction, 277.

chief magistrate, 137.

generalissimo, 139.

supreme judge, 139.
general prosecutor, 139.

private estate of, 415.
family of, 147.

marriage of, 147.

presence of, in the courts of

law, 238, in parliament, 407.

at War, 184.

Secretaryship of State, 179.

Seignorial Rights, 292.

Selden on Equity, 267.

Select vestry, the, 344.

517.

right to choose ministers,

Speaker of the house of commons, 411.
Speakers of the two houses, 465.
Special constables, 325, 387.

jury, 261.
pleaders, 255.

sessions, 383.

Speech from the throne, 411.

liberty of, 89.

Spiritual Courts, 277.

Standing Orders, 461.

Stannary Court, 245.

ment, 439.
University Courts, 282.

Want of confidence, vote of, 397, 534.
War, declaration of, 523.

and peace, 137.

Warrant of apprehension, 106.
Warren Hastings, case of, 505.

Wars of the Roses, their effect, 12.
Wensleydale, Lord, 418.

Western Australia, 575.

Westminster Courts of Law, 238.
Whig and tory, 546.

Wilkes expelled from house of commons,
445, 507.

William I., his despotism, 6.

his treatment of the Saxons, 7.
III., his system, 20.

III. and the Danish ambas-
sador, 91.

IV., royal prerogative under, 514.
Wills, jurisdiction respecting, 249.
Wiseman, Cardinal, on the Puseyites, 210.
Witenagemote, 295, 391.

Witnesses at parliamentary committees,
471.

Woods and forests, 186.
Workhouses, 353.

Writ de homine replegiando, 100.

de odio et atiâ, 100.

ne exeat regno, 63.
of habeas corpus, 101.
prohibition, 279.
mainprise, 100.

YEOMANRY, 190.
Yeomen, 62.

York, Archbishop of, 215.