Contents xiil
SECTION PAGE
4. The King's Use of the People in Govern-
ment ........324
III. PARLIAMENT........337
1. The Origin of the House of Lords . . 337
2. Why there was a Middle Class in England.
Representation and Popular Election . 346
3. Origin of County Representation in a Cen-
tral Assembly......358
4. Condition of the Boroughs in the Thir-
teenth Century, and the Origin of their
Representation in a Central Assembly 364
5. Form and Composition of Parliament from
1265 to the Middle of the Fourteenth
Century........368
6. The Electors, the Elected, and the Elec-
tion in County and Borough During the
First Two Centuries of Parliament . 383
7. Origin of the Chief Powers of Parliament:
Control over Taxation; Legislation; a
Share in Administration .... 396
8. Parliament in the Fifteenth Century . . 426
INDEX........453