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175 .H182

1855

V.2

THE

CONSTITUTIONAL

HISTORY OF
OF ENGLAND

FROM THE ACCESSION OF HENRY VII. TO

THE DEATH OF GEORGE II.

BY HENRY HALLAM, LL.D., F.R. A. S.,

Hyde 78

LONDON PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET,

AND CHARING CROSS.

A. L. CROSS

4-4-41

CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.

CHAPTER VIII.

FROM THE DISSOLUTION OF CHARLES'S THIRD PARLIAMENT TO THE

MEETING OF THE LONG PARLIAMENT.

Declaration of the King after the Dissolution Prosecutions of Eliot and

others for conduct in Parliament Of Chambers for refusing to pay

Customs - Commendable Behaviour of Judges in some instances

Compositions for Knighthood

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Means adopted to raise the Revenue

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Forest Laws

inland Places

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Monopolies Ship-Money Extension of it to

Hampden's Refusal to pay — Arguments on the Case

Proclamations Various arbitrary Proceedings. Star-Chamber

Jurisdiction Punishments inflicted by it. Cases of Bishop Wil-

liams, Prynne, &c. Laud, his Character Lord Strafford Cor-

respondence between these two Conduct of Laud in the Church-

Prosecution of Puritans Favour shown to Catholics

their Religion

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- Tendency to

Expectations entertained by them Mission of

Panzani - Intrigue of Bishop Montagu with

Hales Character of Clarendon's Writings

his Account of this Period Scots Troubles

Government Parliament of April, 1640-

FROM THE MEETING OF THE LONG PARLIAMENT TO THE BEGINNING

— Discussion of its Justice-Act against Dissolution of Parliament

without its Consent Innovations meditated in the Church- Schism

in the Constitutional Party - Remonstrance of November, 1641 -

Suspicions of the King's Sincerity Question of the Militia-His-

torical Sketch of Military Force in England - Encroachments of the

Parliament -Nineteen Propositions Discussion of the respective

Claims of the two Parties to Support - Faults of both.