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CONTENTS¹

Book II.

OF THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT FROM THE REIGN OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR, TO THE ACCESSION OF THE HOUSE OF STEWART.

CHAP. I. The Norman Conquest.—Progress of the feudal System.—View of the several Reigns before that of Edward I.—The Great Charter, and Charter of the Forest.

CHAP. II. In what Manner the Changes produced in the Reign of William the Conqueror affected the State of the national Council.

CHAP. III. Of the ordinary Courts of Justice after the Norman Conquest.

CHAP. IV. Progress of Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and Authority.

CHAP. V. General View of the kingly Power, from the Reign of Edward I. to that of Henry VII.

CHAP. VI. History of the Parliament in the same Period. <vi>

SECT. 1. The Introduction of the Representatives of Counties and Boroughs into Parliament.

SECT. 2. The Division of Parliament into two Houses, and the peculiar Privileges acquired by each House.

SECT. 3. Concerning the Manner of electing the national Representatives, and the Forms of Procedure in Parliament.

CHAP. VII. Alterations in the State of the ordinary Courts of Justice.

SECT. 1. Establishment of the Courts of Common Law, at Westminster.

SECT. 2. Of the Petty Jury—and the Grand Jury.

SECT. 3. Circumstances which prevented the Civil Law from being so much incorporated in the System of English Jurisprudence, as in that of other European Countries.

SECT. 4. The Rise of the Court of Chancery.

CHAP. VIII. Of the Circumstances which promoted Commerce, Manufactures, and the Arts, in modern Europe, and particularly in England. <vii>

CHAP. IX. Of Henry the Seventh.—Circumstances which, in his Reign, contributed to the Exaltation of the Crown.—Review of the Government of this Period.

CHAP. X. Of Henry the Eighth.—The Reformation.—Its Causes.—The Effects of it upon the Influence of the Crown.

CHAP. XI. Of Edward the Sixth—Mary—and Elizabeth.—General Review of the Government.—Conclusion of the Period from the Norman Conquest to the Accession of the House of Stewart.

Conclusion of the Period <viii> <1>