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John (King), his imbecility turned to account, 24.

373

Judges, their commission defined, 68; their circuits, 135; corrupt ones
frequently punished, 239-241; celebrated for their impartiality, 247.
Juries, their origin, 23; on challenging, 81, 127; the grand jury, 126;
134; the petty jury, 135.

Justice impartially administered in England, 246, 283; exemplified by
two cases, 248.

Justinian code, 111; a syllabus of, 350.

King, his legislative authority, 56, 61, 73-76; defined, 242;

the pre-

rogatives of the Crown, 61–63, 65, 147, 193; his legal revenue, 66;
head of the Church, 62, 73; coronation oath, 75.

King's Bench Court, 89.

Kings of England, remarkable fatalities of several, 255.

Law, common or unwritten, 84; its source, 85; in civil matters, 91-
116, 349-352.

Lawyers, their duties defined, 95-103.

Legislative power, as consisting of the King, Lords, and Commons,
51-59; the division of it, 156-162.

Lero, lero, lillebulero, a ballad, 299.

Lex Calpurnia de repetundis, 232.
Lex Cornelia, a Roman law, 110, 233.

Lex Junia, a Roman law, 233.

Lex Porcia, a Roman law, 231.

Lex Sempronia, a Roman law, 232, 233.
Libel, the law of, 202.

Liberty, its early struggles in France, 19; more successful in England,
20, 22; private liberty, 79-90; correct definition of liberty, 169–172;
unknown to ancient nations, 339; only enjoyed in England, 339-340.
Littleton's Book of Tenures, 86.

Lolme (John Louis de). See De Lolme.

Lord Privy Seal, 366.

Lord Chancellor. See Chancellor.

Lords, House of. See Peers.

Louis XV. and his parliament, 269, 279.

Madox (Thomas) on the origin of the word Exchequer, 88.

Machiavelli's History of the Republic of Florence, quoted, 146.

Magna Charta, how obtained, 24; its provisions, 25; confirmed by
Edward I., 29; the foundation of English liberty, 226, 291.

Marlborough (Duke of) his removal by Queen Anne, 266.

Mary, Queen, her merciless bigotry, 40.

Masseres (Baron) revised De Lolme's Essay, 2.

Master of the Rolls, his duties, 113.

Maud (St.) the treaty concluded there, 27.

Meetings for political purposes permitted in England, 282

Memius, a Roman citizen, executed, 232.

Mezeray on the insurrection of the Flemings, 19.

Military laws of England, 287.

Mirror of Justice, by Andrew Horn, 85.

Misprision of treason, its penalty, 128.

Monarchies, the instability of ancient and modern compared with the

stability of the English, 226, 252; the former sustained by the army,
254;
De Lolme's eulogy on the English, 255; not sustained by his-
tory, ib.; how the English differs in its main features from every
other, 258; advantages of a limited, 121.

Money Bills, 237, 258.

Montesquieu quoted, 39, 200, 301, 316.

Montpeson (Sir Giles) degraded, 244.

More (Sir Thomas) on censorial tribunals, 200; his Utopia quoted, ib.
Napoleon III. a special constable in London, 282.

Navigation laws, their abolition recommended, 359.

News Examiner, projected by De Lolme, 3.

Newspapers a public benefit, 206, 209.

Nobility, the annihilation of this power in France and England, 43.
Norman dynasty in England, its despotism, 16.

Novellæ, Justinian's new laws, 352.

Ostracism, an arbitrary expedient of the republic of Athens, 273.

Oyer and Terminer, Commission of, 136.

Præmunire, statute of, first enacted, 35; its penalties, 140, 142.

Prætors, Roman, their edicts, 107, 111; their office, 110.

Parliament, origin of, 59; town and boroughs first represented in, 28;
courtesy observed between the two houses, 334; bill for triennial,
rejected, 264.

Parliament, the Long, noticed, 45; state of the navy under it, 46.
Peers, the House of, its constitution, 55; privileges of its members, 245;
bill for limiting its numbers, 317, 321.

People, frequently misled by popular leaders, 149-151; their share
in legislation, 162; not qualified to enact laws, 172; advantages that
accrue to them from appointing representatives, 178, 212.
Petition of Rights, the act so called, 44, 71, 228, 293, 309.

Petty bag office, what, 101.

Philippe Augustus, his character, 24.

Popilius, a Roman ambassador, 269.

Post-master General, 366.

Poynings (Sir Edward) introduces the English laws into Ireland, 349.
President of the Board of Trade, his duties, 365; of the Board of
Control, 366; of the Council, ib.

Press, its liberty established, 50, 199, 209, 274, 282; and not legally
prohibited, 290; Judge Blackstone's remarks on, 356.

Prime minister appointed by the sovereign, 365.

Prisoners, criminal, how proceeded against, 122-128.
Privileges of parliament, 57, 72, 143, 166, 185, 277, 355.
of members of parliament, 243, 354.

Prorogation of parliament, 58, 268, 310.

Provisors, statute of, first enacted, 35.

Qualifications of members of parliament, 53.

Queen's Bench Court, its jurisdiction, 90.

Rainulph de Glanville, reputed author of Tractatus de Legibus et Con-
suetudinibus Regni Angliæ, 85.

Reform Bill opposed by William IV., 360.

Representatives, their qualifications, 52; the system still imperfect

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144; its advantages to the people, 178; their election, 211; their
right of taxation, 325.

Reporters of parliamentary proceedings, 210, 281.

Republican governments, their disadvantages, 169, 186.

Resistance, right of, admitted by the English laws, 213; Blackstone's
opinion quoted, 215; recognised in courts of law, 216; to be exer-
cised when the legal rights of the people are invaded, 359.
Revolution of 1688, 49–51, 154, 228; settled the prerogatives of the
Crown, 63; respected the royal authority, 261, 270.

Revolutions, in England, have terminated in favour of liberty, 219, 226;
several instances shown, 226-229; not so in the Roman republics,
220-225; nor in the Grecian commonwealths, 225; nor in the limited
monarchies of Europe, 226.

Rhegium, execution of the soldiers for pillaging, 231.

Roman codes, various, 350.

Roman commonwealth, its various revolutions unfavourable to liberty,
220-225; defective in the execution of its laws, 229-236; cruelty of
its criminal code, 249; invaded the liberty of the citizens, 272; its
decline and fall, 302–304.

Roman judges, whence chosen, 233.

Roman jurisconsults, 97.

Roman laws introduced into England, 82; and rejected, 84.

Roman tribunes and the people, 181, 187-191, 305.

Rousseau quoted, 160, 169, 176, 200, 308.

Royal authority in the case of minors, 260.

Royal household in England,.148.

Royal prerogative, 268, 310.

Runny-Mead, meeting of King John and the barons there, 25.
Russian ambassador arrested in 1708, 248.

Scipio Nasica and the Romans, 181.

Scotland, the number of representatives it sends to parliament, 52; the
lords of the articles, what assembly, 166; their nobles invaded the
authority of the Crown, 262; the bill for settling the Hanoverian
succession, ib.

Secretary of State for the Home Department, 365; for Foreign Affairs,
ib.; for the Colonies, ib.

Session, parliamentary, 56-58.

Sessions, county and borough, 125, 135.

Sevigné (Madame de) on granting the supplies in France, 328.

Six bloody articles of Henry VIII., 39.

Smith (Dr. Adam) on a standing army, 285.

Social war, or the revolt of the Italians, 234.

Sons, the Roman formality of emancipating, 106.

Spain, its states formerly democratic republics, 33, 262; origin of the

Spanish monarchy, 33.

Spartacus noticed, 209.

Speaker of the House of Commons, 57.

Spelman (Sir Henry) on the conquest, 13.
Spiritual Lords, 55.

Spurius Mælius, his death, 231.

Star chamber, its jurisdiction, 40, 41, 201, 291; abolished, 44, 201, 309.
Statutes of parliament, their origin, 60.

Stuart dynasty, 42-51, 293.

Sweden, its senate invades the royal authority, 261, 319; its executive
authority vested in the Privy Council, 263, 318; the people's
deputies, 305.

Swift (Dean) on Queen Anne and the Duke of Marlborough, 266.
Taxation in England and France compared, 326-328.

Taxes first levied by the joint consent of Lords and Commons, 30; the
right of levying on the people's representatives, 324-332.
Temple (Sir Wm.) on the Anglo-Saxon dynasty, 13.

Tooly's case of homicide, 215.

Torture used by the Greeks, 250; in England, 251; its abolition in
criminal cases, 132.

Trail Bâton, establishment of this court, 30.

Treason, high, legal proceedings in cases of, 128; in cases of a peer, 131.
Tresilian (Sir Robert) attainted for high treason, 240.

Trevor (Sir John) expelled the Commons, 244.

Trial by jury of Saxon origin, 23; revived by Henry II., ib.; in
Normandy, 236; in Sweden, 237; in Scotland, ib.; commended,
127-136, 236.

Tribonian, compiler of the Justinian Code, 351, 352.

Tribuneship instituted at Rome, 221, 223.

Tudors, the power of the princes, 36, 293.

Twelve Tables, the laws of, 97, 106, 107, 250, 275.

Venetian republic, its despotism, 275; the people deprived of their
political privileges, 306.

Verres, his guilt and punishment, 234.

Virgil (Polidore) on the Exchequer Court, 88.

Viriatus noticed, 209.

Walpole's administration, 301.

Warrants, general, considered, 309.

Washington (George), his character, 362.

William I. his conquest of England, 13; introduces the feudal system,

14;

his despotic tyranny, 17; divides England into military fiefs,
ib.; used the French language in judicial documents, 58.

William III., invested with the sovereignty, 50, 154.

William IV. opposes the Reform Bill, 360.

Wolcott (Dr.) his notices of De Lolme, 3, 5, 6.

Woodfall, his prosecution for publishing Junius' Letters, 130.

Writ of Capias, 92; of the English Courts, 92-101.

Writs issued by the sovereign to convoke a parliament, 54, 73; the
earliest known, 59.

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