2929. Cox, HOMERSHAM. Antient parliamentary elections. London, 1868. Chs. i.-ii. Rural population, etc. Chs. v.-vi. Origin of parliament; county suffrage. Chs. vii.-ix. Borough electors, etc. Inferior to the work of Riess (No. 2946). 2929a. ELSYNGE, HENRY. The manner of holding parliaments in England [ed. Thomas Tyrwhitt]. London, 1768.Earlier editions, 1660, 1663, 1675. 2930. FREEMAN, E. A. London, etc., 1892. The house of lords, 425-502, Historical essays. 4th series. 2931. HALE, MATTHEW. The jurisdiction of the lords' house. London, 1796. Deals also with the history of the consilium regis, or privy council. 2932. HATSELL, JOHN. house of commons. new edition, 1818. Precedents of proceedings in the 4 vols. London, 1781; 3rd edition, 1796; Deals mainly with modern precedents. II. : 2933. House of lords. I.: Its origin, by G. L. Gomme. Its functions, by James Gairdner. III. Its place of meeting, by H. B. Wheatley. IV. Transition from tenure to writ, by J. H. Round. Antiquary, vols. ix.-xi. passim. London, 1884-85. Round's paper, under the title The Origin of the House of Lords, is reprinted in his Peerage and Pedigree (No. 3038a), i. 324-62. 2934. HUGHES, ARTHUR. The parliament of Lincoln, 1316. Royal Hist. Soc., Trans., new series, x. 41-58. London, etc., 1896. Deals mainly with the relations between the chancery and the exchequer under Edward I. and Edward II. 2934a. LAPSLEY, G. T. The commons and the statute of York. English Hist. Review, xxviii. 118-24. London, 1913. 2935. LUDERS, ALEXANDER. A treatise on the constitution of parliament in the reign of Edward I. Bath, 1818. See also Luders, On the Constitution of Parliament in the Reign of Henry III., in his Tracts on Various Subjects (2 pts., Bath, 1810), ii, 239-326. 2936. LYNCH, WILLIAM. The law of elections in the ancient cities and towns of Ireland. London, 1831. pp. 90. 2936a. MCILWAIN, C. H. The high court of parliament and its supremacy: an historical essay on the boundaries between legislation and adjudication in England. New Haven, 1910. Truths and fictions of the middle 2937. PALGRAVE, FRANCIS. ages: the merchant and the friar. 1844. Chs. ii. and iv. contain an interesting account of county elections and of parliament in the latter part of Edward I.'s reign. See also Palgrave's paper, Courts of the Ancient English Common Law-the Leet, the Shire, Parliament, in Edinburgh Review, 1822, xxxvi. 287-341. 2938. PARK, G. R. The parliamentary representation of Yorkshire [Edw. I.-1886]. Hull, 1886. 2939. Parliamentary or constitutional history of England: a faithful account of transactions in parliament [1066-1660]. 24 vols. London, 1751-61; 2nd edition, 1761-63. Superseded by No. 2927. 2940. [PARRY, C. H.] The parliaments and councils of England chronologically arranged [1066-1688]. London, 1839. A list of parliaments, with a brief account of the writs issued and the business transacted. Valuable. 2941. PETYT, WILLIAM. Jus parliamentarium, or the ancient power, jurisdiction, etc., of the most high court of parliament. 2 pts. London, 1739. 2942. *PIKE, L. O. A constitutional history of the house of London, etc., 1894. lords. The best work on this subject. 2943. PINK, W. D., and BEAVEN, A. B. Parliamentary representation of Lancashire, 1258-1885. London, 1889. 2944. *Reports from the lords' committees appointed to search the journals of the house, rolls of parliament, and other records for all matters touching the dignity of a peer. 5 vols. London, 1820-29. Vol. i. First report: history of legislative assemblies in England, etc. Vols. ii.-iii. Appendix i. to first report writs of summons, JohnEdw. IV. Vol. iv. Second report (with appen dixes ii.-iv. to the first report); third and fourth reports (dealing mainly with the history of the peerage). Vol. v. Fifth report, i.e. appendix v.: patents of creation, etc., Stephen-Edw. IV. The committee was first appointed in 1815, and was often revived between 1816 and 1829. Reports were made in 1816, 1817, and 1818; the first general report was presented to the lords in 1819, the second in 1820, the third in 1822, the fourth in 1825, the fifth in 1829. Vols. i.-iv. were reprinted for the house of commons in 1826 (Parl. Papers, vols, vi.-ix.) ; and for the lords in 1829 (Sessional Papers vols. cclii.-cclvi.). Vols. i.iii., which are very valuable for the study of parliamentary history, will be found also in the Journals of the House of Lords, 1824, lvi. 470-1104; vol. iv., ibid. 1820, liii. 364–6 (2nd report), ibid. 1822-23, lv. 348-463 (3rd report), ibid. 1825, lvii. 1209-55 (4th report); and vol. v., ibid. 1829, lxi, 729-926. For a valuable criticism of this work, see History of the English Legislature [by John Allen], in Edinburgh Review, 1821, xxxv. 1-43. 2945. Return of the name of every member of the lower house of the parliaments of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with name of constituency represented and date of return, 1213-1874. Parl. Papers, 1878, vol. lxii. pts. i.-iii. 3 vols. [London], 1878. Valuable. Pt. iii., which is the index to pt. i. (1213-1702), though ordered to be printed in 1878, seems not to have been published until 1888. The continuation of the names of members of parliament to 1885, with an index of names from 1705 to 1885, will be found in Parliamentary Papers, 1890-91 (London, 1891), vol. lxii, 2946. *RIESS, LUDWIG. Geschichte des Wahlrechts zum englischen Parlament im Mittelalter. Leipsic, 1885. The best work on this subject. 2947. Der Ursprung des englischen Unterhauses. Sybel's Hist. Zeitschrift, lx. 1-33. Munich, etc., 1888. Contends that Edward I.'s object in summoning the commons to parliament was not to obtain pecuniary aid. For a criticism of this and the preceding work, see English Historical Review, 1890, v. 146–56. See also D. Pasquet, Essai sur les Origines de la Chambre des Communes, Paris, 1914; and White, Concentration (No. 645a). Lon 2948. SELDEN, JOHN. Judicature in parliaments. don, n.d.-Reprinted in his Opera Omnia, iii. 1587-1660. London, 1726. 2949. SELDEN, JOHN. The privileges of the baronage of England when they sit in parliament. London, 1642.-Reprinted in his Opera Omnia, iii. 1473-1548. London, 1726. 2950. WILLIAMS, W. R. The parliamentary history of the county of Hereford, 1213-1896. Brecknock, 1896. He has also written books on the parliamentary history of Worcestershire, 1213-1897; Gloucestershire, 1213–1898; and Oxfordshire, 1213–1899. 2951, WILLIS, BROWNE. Notitia parliamentaria. 3 vols. London, 1715-50; 2nd edition of vol. i., 1730. This work is now of little value. § 66. THE EXCHEQUER, TAXATION, AND For the general treatises and the original sources, see §§ 18, 50; for the history of coinage, § 10. For Danegeld, see Nos. 1589-90; for the church and lay taxes, Nos. 2208a, 2211, 2845a (Lunt), 3089 (Lunt and Willard). For the reigns of Edward I. and Edward II., see Willard, in English Historical Review, 1913, xxviii. 517-21, 1914, xxix. 317-21, and in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 3rd series, 1913, vii. 167-89. Madox (No. 2959) is the best authority on the history of the exchequer. On the origin of the exchequer, see J. H. Round, Commune of London (No. 2826a); the introduction to the Oxford edition of the Dialogus (No. 1915); Petit-Dutaillis's edition of Stubbs's Constitutional History (No. 643); and particularly Poole (No. 29596). For the ancient practice of the court, see Sir Thomas] F[anshaw], The Practice of the Exchequer Court, London, 1658. Dowell's History of Taxation (No. 665) is supplemented by Vincent (No. 1957) and Mitchell (above, p. 618) for the thirteenth century, and by Ramsay (Nos. 2879, 2960) for the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The subject of scutage has evoked much discussion. See Round, Feudal England (No. 2827), 262-88, and Studies on the Red Book (No. 1917); Hall, Red Book (No. 1917), vol. ii. preface; Pollock and Maitland, English Law, bk. ii. ch. i. § 3; and No. 2952. Gras (No. 2953a) has thrown new light on the history of the customs. 2951a. ATTON, HENRY, and HOLLAND, H. H. The king's 2 vols. London, 1908-10. customs. Deals briefly with the medieval period. 2952. BALDWIN, J. F. The scutage and knight service in England. Chicago, 1897. 2953. FERGUSON, J. F. The court of exchequer in Ireland. Gentleman's Magazine, new series, xliii. 37-44. London, 1855. A brief account. 2953a. GRAS, N. S. B. The origin of the national customsrevenue of England. Quarterly Journal of Economics, xxvii. 107-49. Cambridge, Mass., 1912. Corrects Hall's theory of the origin of the customs. 2954. GROSS, CHARLES. The exchequer of the Jews of England in the middle ages. London, 1887. pp. 63. 2955. HALE, MATTHEW. A short treatise touching sheriffs' accounts. London, 1683; another edition, 1716. 2956. A treatise in three parts: de jure maris; de portibus maris; concerning the custom of goods imported and exported. In Francis Hargrave's Collection of Tracts, i. 1-289. Dublin, 1787. 2957. HALL, HUBERT. Antiquities and curiosities of the exchequer. London, 1891; reprinted, 1898. Valuable. See also his account of the system of the exchequer, in his Introduction to the Study of the Pipe Rolls (No. 1920), 35–69; and his papers, The Exchequer Chess-Game (Antiquary, 1884, ix. 206-12) and The Site of the Ancient Exchequer at Westminster (Archæol. Review, 1889, ii. 386-96). 2958. History of the custom-revenue in England. 2 vols. London, 1885; new edition, 1 vol., 1892. The best general account of this subject. On the customs revenue of Edward II., see J. H. Ramsay, in English Historical Review, 1911, xxvi. 97-108. See also No. 2798: 2959. *MADOX, THOMAS. The history and antiquities of the exchequer of England [1066-1327]. London, 1711.-Index, |