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a power ir* goverrjiknt in any way
the kins. It may V a-J that tin TV vrcr: throe
in tne Parian:*. nt of 12^5 'th1^,;^! th». ;nrr*v of tht-
seen: neither to have ta^ a -
the first cstatt\ clvrg
the tiiirc

course, include th^ prt'at.^
barons, as will a^ ±t rJ";? ,- r/
estate

ti;ij^ht -f >ach i-
-nd t-tjjV. ^y^
v fr>t tsta+v wo
h" Tvvr- tht-rv
v, ' !• r^* If t.*;-j

iJT

as

rrv*: ,t :r;:/

.ra

onI)T
.! ^
arJ,

and hiftt^riccl

t»*- the barons
ati'S, th<j. btffr

^:^iJ i in West-
^^Dr Pollard
-^ a pla

the baron* but tbj ^;n ,- rt:A:ivL

well. Fee t!:e ktr^ht^ w[r.* Tr

though thty CTJT::P distinctly ar^i ccn*o:'H

the counties that clxsc thtm, th'Jr f ^rr.

position st cms at first to have dravn tli\

and away from their ino*v natr.ra" a^.-'

gcsses. Just how thc^x* pcr/plf xit . r

minster Hall is a cbubtfj] matt- r, P

pictures the council or great council .-,itt:

with the representative elements corning into its prtsence.

They did net sit together, for t\e ccmr^^ns "citizens and bur"
gesses], at least, stood In t!x presence if the I;in^ and ccucn!-
and the attitude *jf Edward I. was ^rrtiv1at ;\;tri:iro!:al'
. . . The conurions, at least, v»^T^wsumjnuTii: i ^^J^jl^^
but tojjonsent to ^dskrjs; and the c-bjtct r.f their rttstnce
wasTiiot to^'tiFffi^^ds^the^council, bnt^to unloose the
pockets of their constiti^cta, 2

ion of ParUzmentj p, 5Q. On the trree e?tatc?. see , ch. ;v.

Professor Pollard believes that tht. i lei r<f tl*e three '/'^t^tes w.is rof prec-
ent in England until the fifteenth century and was then largely A French
imitation.

The use of the term *' parliament" at thc^Łgrnnin^;iofjtj>e
century is admirably illustrated b> ^^^^^^.^Mj^v^^^^'^^ says
of it: ""It was a full parliament in^oSr^sense of that term. The three,,,
estates of the realnTln^TTISriSing* and*S!S csySST^'Tte great prtceilent,

three w«2ks. On the 2ist of March a proclamation was rradc* tu/nc: the

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justices, and others who members of the council were to remain