A Short Constitutional History Of England Classic Reprint

Excerpt from A Short Constitutional History of England It has been my endeavour to give, with the Com piler's kind permission, as many references as possible to Professor Stubbs' Collection of Charters, in the hope that such references may in some slight degree assist the reader in his study of that valuable work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the Third 1760-1860, Vol. 1 of 3 Constitutional History of England, from 1760 to 1860, having been concluded as a complete work, some years since, I have not ventured to disturb the original narrative, by any attempt to continue it to the prwent time. But more than ten years have since passed, which will ever be memorable in the consti tutional history of our country; and in preparing a new edition of this work, I have added a supplemen tary chapter, in which I have briefly reviewed the more remarkable events of this latter period, in their relations to the history of the previous hundred years, and have endeavoured to measure their influence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Constitutional History of England in Its Origin and Development, Vol. 1 In this department of study there is no portion more valu able than the Constitutional History of England. I would fain hope that the labour spent on it in this book may at least not repel the student, and that the result not wholly disappoint those friends in Englan America, by whose advice it was begun, and w and encouragement have mainly sustained me in taking. To them I would dedicate a work which or {all by their judgment. And I would put on record grateful feeling for the unsparing good-will with which work in other departments has been hitherto welcomed. More special debt I would gladly acknowledge to the Scholars (the Dean of Christ Church and the Rev. G. Kitchin) who have helped me with counsel and whilst passing the book through the Press; to whom I specially drawn by their association with my early Ox ambitions, and whose patient kindness an acquaintance of n nearly thirty years has not exhausted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Rise of Constitutional Government in England That constitutional history is very dry, is' an axiom admitted by almost all who have; never read it; that it is far more interesting than what is commonly received as history, is almost equally admitted by those who have. Constitutional histories are usually left un read, partly because they are long, ' partly because they generally contain a great deal of matter which the ordinary reader does not want to know, and partly because their arrange ment is such that it is difficult to pick out exactly the information that is sought. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the Third, 1760-1860, Vol. 2 of 2 Claims of relief to Quakers Union with Ireland 1n connection with Catholic disabilities Concessions forbidden by George III. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Constitutional History of England, From the Accession of Henry VII. To the Death of George II Tm: present Edition of the Constitutional History of England has been undertaken for the same reasons and ex ecuted on the same plan as are explained in the Preface to the corresponding edition of the History of the Middle Ages. It has been brought into one volume by leaving out most of the notes at the foot of the pages, and by ab breviating some of the less important remarks; but the great bulk of the book remains unchanged, and nothing of importance has been omitted. The editor has not consider ed himself at liberty to alter any of the Opinions expressed by the Author, even where he differs from them; and it has been his aim to present the work as nearly as possible in the form in which he conceives the author would have wish ed it to appear if he had himself prepared an edition for the special use of students. It 'has been thought advisable to print at length the Petition of Right and the Bill of Rights, of which Mr. Hallam gave only an abstract. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Constitutional History of the House of Lords: From Original Sources Though there are many Constitutional Histories of England and Histories of Parliament, there has, it is believed, hitherto been no Constitutional His tory of the House of Lords. The reader in search of information could only extract it laboriously from disconnected passages in works of great length, or find it shaped as ammunition for the purposes of party warfare in political treatises. The scope of the present work is different from that held in view by such well-known historians as Hallam, May, Gneist, or Bishop Stubbs, or in the polemical essays of Prynne or Freeman. The materials used, though, to some extent, necessarily the same as those upon which they relied, have been largely drawn from other sources, and have been wrought to other ends. Statements of fact are consequently often inconsistent with those made in preceding works on the Constitution, but the original authorities on which they rest have been indicated. It has, therefore, been thought needless to point out the variations, except in some very remarkable instances. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.