CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY. A Text-Book FOR STUDENTS AND OTHERS. BY THOMAS P. TASWELL-LANGMEAD, B.C.L., LATE VINERIAN SCHOLAR IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, OF LINCOLN'S INN, BARRISTER-AT-LAW. LONDON: BELL YARD, TEMPLE BAR. 1875. 226. i. 355 DEDICATED ΤΟ THE HON. T. CHARLES AGAR-ROBARTES, M.A. OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW, BY HIS FRIEND, THE AUTHOR. PREFACE. THE aim of this work is to give a concise but comprehensive history of the origin and development of the English Constitution. It is intended, primarily, as a Text-book for students, but I trust that it may also prove not unacceptable to the general reader. In its composition, while necessarily making ample use of Hallam's masterpieces, I have availed myself largely of the writings of Professor Stubbs and Mr. Freeman, which have thrown so much new light upon the earlier phases of our Constitution. In the most recent period, the Constitutional History of Sir Erskine May has been my chief guide. But numerous other authorities have been consulted, and to all of them references are given in the notes, both as vouchers for the facts stated, and as indications to the student where to seek for further and fuller information. The arrangement adopted is mainly chronological, but with occasional deviations from the strict order, where I have thought it most convenient to treat of some particular topic in a continuous manner. |
