Edward A. Freeman

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

CHAPTER II.

CHAPTER III.

NOTES. CHAPTER I.

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Original title page

THE GROWTH
OF
THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION
FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES

THE GROWTH

OF THE

ENGLISH CONSTITUTION

FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES.

BY
EDWARD A. FREEMAN, M.A., Hon. D.C.L.,
LATE FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, OXFORD.

‘Concedis justas leges et consuetudines esse tenendas, et promittis eas per te esse protegendas et ad honorem Dei roborandas, quas vulgus elegerit secundum vires tuas?’—Ancient Coronation Oath.

‘Rex habet superiorem, Deum. Item Legem, per quam factus est Rex. Item curiam suam.’—Bracton.

SECOND EDITION.

London:
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1873.

[The Right of Translation and Reproduction is reserved.]

LONDON:
R. CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS,
BREAD STREET HILL.