The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the Third, 1760-1860, Volumen1

Longmans, Green, and Company, 1878

Influence of the Crown since the Revolution	1

Ministerial power and responsibility	9

Measures taken to break up the ministry	18

Lord Bute resigns	25

The kings differences with the Grenville ministry	31

The king advances his policy with the aid of Lord Chatham	40

The king his own minister	49

Lord North driven from office by the Commons 1782	57

Schemes for economic reform	239

Revenues of the Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall	248

Mismanagement of the land revenues on behalf of the public	255

Profuse creations in the reign of George III	273

Attempts to exclude them from the House of Lords	303

Disfranchisement and other Acts to restrain bribery	308

crisis	310

The baronetage and orders of knighthood	323

Result of twenty years of kingcraft	59

Use of the kings name in Parliament denounced	65

Mr Pitt becomes the kings minister	72

Triumph of Mr Pitt 1784	79

The Grenville administration 1806	89

Permanence of British institutions	99

The kings friends active against ministers	106

Rights of an infant king considered on the accession	119

Sudden dismissal of the Melbourne ministry	146

The passing of the third Reform Bill 1832	148

Is driven from office	152

Sir R Peels second administration 1841	158

CHAPTER III	167

The Regency Act 183031	168

Meeting of Parliament during the kings second illness	175

1801	195

The rights of a kings posthumous child	199

CHAPTER IV	225

Revenues of the Crown prior to the Revolution	231

Bribery at elections	333

Encouragement of bribery by the King	341

Influence of the Court over the prince regent	343

Government influence in larger boroughs	347

Territorial influence in counties	353

And of Ireland	359

The Grenville Act 1770	365

Negotiations on the death of Mr Perceval 1812	369

Early measures to restrain it	372

427	377

During the reign of George III	378

By lucrative contracts	387

Ascendency of Tory politics under Lord Liverpool	388

How popular principles were kept alive	393

Reform advocated by Mr Grey 1792	402

Lord J Russells efforts for reform 18201830	408

Proposal to enfranchise Leeds Birmingham and Manchester	415

The first Reform Bill rejected by the Commons	423

Título	The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the Third, 1760-1860, Volumen1 The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the Third, 1760-1860, Thomas Erskine May
Autor	Thomas Erskine May
Edición	6
Editor	Longmans, Green, and Company, 1878
Procedencia del original	Universidad de California
Digitalizado	4 Dic. 2007

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