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CLARENDON, CONSTITUTIONS OF, 45, 46 Mode in which they have been preserved, (Note 3), 45 Suits respecting the advowson and presentation of churches to be determined in the civil courts, 45 Criminal process against clerks, 45 Appeals in spiritual causes, 45 Excommunication of inhabitants in demesne, 45 The prelates to be regarded as barons of the realm, 45 Revenues of vacant sees to belong to the crown, 46 "Bishop-elect to do homage to the king, 46 Non-exemption of the clergy from the civil power, 46 CLERGY-vide REFORMATION-REVENUES (ECCLESIASTICAL) CLERGYMAN, punishment for arrest of, while engaged in his clerical duties, 1112 CLOSING POLL-vide RIOTS COAL-METERS, disqualifications of, from exercising the parliamentary elective franchise, 547 COAL-MINE-vide MINE COIN, counterfeiting gold and silver, 1050, 1065, 1079 Colouring, 1050 Impairing gold and silver, 1050, 1060 Buying or selling at a lower rate than by its denomination it imports, Importing counterfeit, 1050 Uttering counterfeit, having at the same time counterfeit, in possession, Uttering twice within ten days, 1050 Subsequent uttering after a previous conviction, 1050, 1051 Having in possession three or more pieces of counterfeit, 1051, 1114 Conveying coining tools and, out of the Mint, 1051 Tendering, uttering, or putting off, counterfeit, 1079, 1116, 1121 COINING INSTRUMENTS, having unlawful possession of, or any other contrivance for counterfeiting coin, 1051, 1079 COINING TOOLS, 1051, 1079 Making a puncheon for coining, 1051 Having a puncheon in possession, 1051 Making a collar or press for coining, 1051 COLLECTORS, disqualified from parliamentary elective rights, 546-548 Of assessed taxes, and post-horse duties, can vote at parliamentary COLONIAL appointments, create a disqualification from parliament, 622-625 COMMISSARY-GENERAL of Musters, disqualified from parliament, 623 Disqualified from exercising the parliamentary elective franchise, 546– 548 COMMITTEES- vide LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLIES Of the House of Commons, decisions of, actuated by the profligacy of COMMONALTY-vide MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS COMMON COUNCILS-vide MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS COMMON LAW, foundation of, 79 COMMON SEAL-vide MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS COMMON STOCK-vide MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS INDEX. COMMONS-vide LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLIES COMMONWEALTHS-vide CHARLES I. and CHARLES II., reigns of De The people in them apt to be misled by favourite leaders, 807, 808 The people unavoidably betrayed by those whom they trust with power, 856-861 Revolutions have always concluded in, in a manner disadvantageous to public liberty, 860, 861 The laws to secure the liberty of the citizens, besides being imperfect, are not even carefully executed, 904-931 Cannot subsist without certain arbitrary powers, contrary to the liberty of the citizens, 957-969 Do not admit the privilege of speaking and writing, and perhaps cannot, 957-965 Power of government supposed by law to be unbounded, till stopped by some positive regulation, 974-976 By what means, generally lose their liberties, 990, 991 Great difficulty for the people in, to preserve their rights, 1001 COMPOUNDING FELONY, taking a reward for stolen goods, 1049 COMPTROLLERS, disqualified from exercising the elective parliamentary franchise, 546 Incapacitated from being members of parliament, 624-627 CONCEALMENT, of birth of a child, 1117 Of wills, codicils, or other testamentary instruments, 1047, 1085 CONEYS, taking or killing, 1084, 1089, 1101 CONFESSION-vide REFORMATION Auricular, by Roman Catholic votaries, 234-238 Roman Catholic Church, to acquire political power, made the absolution of a priest necessary for salvation, 236 Questions in, of a character disgustingly obscene, 237, 238 CONQUEST, ERA OF THE, 19–40 Stated by De Lolme, to be the foundation of the English constitution, 496, 497 Sed vide contra, 19-40 CONSPIRACY, to commit a crime, 1038, 1049 To charge a man with a crime, 1036, 1049 CONSTITUTIONAL and unconstitutional, mean legal and illegal, 3, 4 Contracts with the treasury, navy, victualling-office, or ordnance, 627 Exception as to trading companies, and to those who have ceased to London Flour Company, 628 Master or worker of the Mint; army clothiers; sub-contractors, &c., 628 COPYHOLDS, confer a right of exercising the parliamentary elective franchise, 543 Give no vote for a county, if they might give a vote for a borough, 544 CORONATION OATH, 604 Change in, temp. Edward VI., 209 CORPORATIONS-vide MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS COUNCILS-vide PRIVY COUNCIL-WILLIAM I., reign of Power of legislation exercised by William I. and selected, 36 COUNCILS-continued. INDEX. Title of the" Barones" to act legislatively unknown, 87 Assemblage of, under Henry I., 40, 41 Existence of, from the Saxon era to the reign of Henry III., 66, 67 COUNTIES-vide BOROUGHS-MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS-PARLIAMENTARY First division of the country into, 15 Kingly power partly deputed to sheriffs in, 15 COUNTING-HOUSE, occupation of, gives a right of exercising the parlia- COUNTY-COURTS-vide COUNTIES-PARLIAMENT Administration of justice in, 16 Denial of justice in, justified an appeal to the king, 17 Where and how holden for purposes of election, 550 COURTS-vide EQUITY-PROCESS (CIVIL)-STAR CHAMBER COURTS OF RECORD, stealing original documents from, 1084 Obliterating, injuring, or destroying original records, 1084 COVENTRY ACT, origin of, 919 CRIME, conviction of, creates an incapacity from the exercise of parliamentary rights, 546, 628, 629 CRIMINAL LAW, analysis of criminal offences, and statutes under which they are punishable, 1033-1130 Analysis of crimes that were committed in 1837, pp. 1130-1132 Comparative view of the sentences passed on criminals during 1834, Criminals convicted and executed in France in 1832, 1833, 1834, Total number of those who were accused of crimes in 1837, but subse- Number of offenders tried before the different courts in 1835, 1837, pp. Ages of the criminals, 1136 Result of the proceedings against the offenders aged twelve years and Result of the proceedings against the offenders aged twelve years and Degrees of instruction which the prisoners had received, 1139 CROMWELL-vide CHARLES I., and CHARLES II., reigns of CROWN-vide PREROGATIVE CUSTOMARY FREEHOLD, a copyhold, and not a freehold, 543 CUSTOMS, ANCIENT-vide BOROUGHS-LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLIES-MUNI- CUSTOMS, receipts of, in the year ended 5th January, 1837, p. 578 Disqualifications from being members of parliament, 624, 625 CUSTOM-HOUSE OFFICERS, shooting at, or maiming, or wounding, 1036 CURTESY, estate by, gives a right to vote, 543 CUTTING, stabbing, or wounding, with intent to murder, 1034 To maim, disfigure, disable, or do some grievous bodily harm, or to DAY, its legal duration, in cases of burglary, (Note 4,) 1037 INDEX. DEBATES—vide Legislative ASSEMBLIES (Parliamentary) Freedom of, secured by the Bill of Rights, 608 Mode in which, are conducted in the English parliament, 135–137, 288, 328, 351, 352, 472, 531-565, 535, 608 Unlimited freedom exercised in, not followed by any bad consequences, 963-966 DEBENTURE for payment or return of money, required by statutes relating to the customs or excise, &c., forgery of, 1041, 1069 Exchequer, forgery of, 1042 For money, or payment of money, stealing of, 1085, 1105 DEEDS for money, or payment of money, stealing of, 1059 Stealing, being evidence of title to real estate, 1059, 1085 DEER, coursing, hunting, snaring, or carrying away, or killing or wounding, or attempting to kill or wound, in any inclosed land, &c., where, are usually kept, 1074, 1075 Doing the like, in any uninclosed land, 1075 Setting snares for, &c., 1089 Destroying any part of a fence where, are kept, 1084 DE LOLME, TREATISE OF, 491-1032 INTRODUCTION BY DE LOLME, 491-494 SURVEY OF THE VARIOUS POWERS INCLUDED IN THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION, AND OF THE LAWS BOTH IN CIVIL AND CRIMINAL OFFENCES, 495—804 Causes of the Liberty of the English Nation. Reasons of the difference between the Government of England and that of France. In England the great Power of the Crown, under the Norman Kings, created an Union between the Nobility and the People-CHAPTER I., 495-505 Uncertain accounts of the Anglo-Saxon government, 495, 496 Foundation of the English constitution is to be sought after at the era of the Conquest, 496, 497 Independent character of the German nations, 497, 498 The fiefs by connivance at first became annual, afterwards held for life, 498 Establishment of the feudal system in England was an immediate consequence of the Conquest, 499 Despotism of William I., 499 England divided into fiefs, 500 The aula regis, 500 Feudal governments of France and England, 501 Arbitrary power of the kings of England, 501 Limited authority of the sovereigns of France, 501, 502 People of France, rendered desperate by oppression, attempted to revolt, 502 Liberty perished in France, because it wanted a favourable culture and situation, 503 Excessive power of the kings made England free, 503, 504 Mode in which the people became participators in public liberty, 504 Principle of primeval equality became everywhere diffused and established, 504, 505 Oppression caused the union of the lord and the vassal, 505 The people stipulated conditions for themselves, 505 A second Advantage England had over France; it formed one Undivided State-CHAPTER II., 506-516 Reign of Henry I., 536 Rigour of the feudal laws mitigated, 506 Advances of liberty under Henry II., 506 Despotic character of John, 507 England acknowledged but one master; France an aggregation of sovereignties, 507 DE LOLME-continued. John compelled to submit himself to the disposal of his subjects, 507, 508 No subject to be molested, either in person or effects, unless by the Magna Charta an advance towards the establishment of public liberty, 509 Confirmations of the great charter, 509, 510 Civil dissensions during the reign of Henry III., 510 Parliamentary representation, 511 Pecuniary necessities of the crown, 511 Commons not originally possessed of great authority, 511, 512 The people invested with the power of influencing the motions of Confirmations of Magna Charta by Edward I., 512 Statute de Tallagio non concedendo, 513 Efficient causes of slavery operating and gaining strength in Europe, 513 The French had no conception of the necessary ingredients of a free Imperceptible advances of the royal authority, 515 Disturbed state of Spain, 515, 516 The spirit of liberty and resistance arose in England on the dissolution The subject continued-CHAPTER III., 517–530 Representatives of the nation admitted into parliament, 517 Temp. Edward II., petitions annexed to subsidy bills, 517 Temp. Edward III., commons declare they will not acknowledge any Refusal to grant subsidies until redress of grievances (temp. Henry IV.) Country desolated by faction, 518 Henry VII. had promises to fulfil, as well as injuries to avenge, 518 Franchises contained in Magna Charta, were ineffaced by transitory Advantage of England being one undivided state, 519, 520 Parliament always vindicated the right of granting or refusing subsidies, Abolition of the tyrannical laws against high treason (temp. Henry VIII., Courts of Star Chamber and High Commission, 520 Doctrine of uncontrollable authority of kings diffused an universal alarm Printing disseminated salutary notions throughout all orders of the Notions of religion united with the love of liberty, 522 The commons sensible of their own strength, determined to repress Public liberty preserved from the union of the people, 523 Charles I. ignorant of the dangers with which he was surrounded, 523 Constitution freed from the despotic powers, with which it had been Fanaticism of persecuting sects, joined in the disputes between the crown The Commonwealth, 525 Interference of the people in the common business of government is most INDEX. |