A Short History of Anglo-Saxon Freedom: The Polity of the English-speaking Race. Outlined in Its Inception, Development, Diffusion and Present ConditionC. Scribner's sons, 1890 - 420 páginas |
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... boroughs . - The Chapter House at Westmin- ster . Division of Parliament into two Houses . - Growth of the power of Parliament . - Its imperfect character as a representative body . - Rise of the farmers and the free laborers . The ...
... boroughs . - The Chapter House at Westmin- ster . Division of Parliament into two Houses . - Growth of the power of Parliament . - Its imperfect character as a representative body . - Rise of the farmers and the free laborers . The ...
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... boroughs . - Jack Cade's rebellion . - Justice of his cause . The Wars of the Roses . - Extinction of the power of the nobles . - Accession of the Tudor line . CHAPTER VII . DEPRESSION OF THE POWER OF PARLIAMENT . - - Great increase of ...
... boroughs . - Jack Cade's rebellion . - Justice of his cause . The Wars of the Roses . - Extinction of the power of the nobles . - Accession of the Tudor line . CHAPTER VII . DEPRESSION OF THE POWER OF PARLIAMENT . - - Great increase of ...
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... boroughs . Destruction of the popular fran- chise . Rotten boroughs . Their growth under the Tu- dors and Stuarts . Large towns unrepresented . — Cases of Buckingham , Bewdley , Oxford , Salisbury , Bath , New Shoreham , Sudbury ...
... boroughs . Destruction of the popular fran- chise . Rotten boroughs . Their growth under the Tu- dors and Stuarts . Large towns unrepresented . — Cases of Buckingham , Bewdley , Oxford , Salisbury , Bath , New Shoreham , Sudbury ...
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... borough , was only a more strictly organized tun - scipe , with a ditch or rampart of earth instead of the hedge or paling . The hundred , or wapentake , was a union of townships . These again were collected into divisions called in the ...
... borough , was only a more strictly organized tun - scipe , with a ditch or rampart of earth instead of the hedge or paling . The hundred , or wapentake , was a union of townships . These again were collected into divisions called in the ...
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... boroughs scattered through the provinces , the consti- tution was that of the hundred rather than the town- ship . The condition of the serf was not utterly with- out hope ; for if he could but obtain admission into a merchant - guild ...
... boroughs scattered through the provinces , the consti- tution was that of the hundred rather than the town- ship . The condition of the serf was not utterly with- out hope ; for if he could but obtain admission into a merchant - guild ...
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