or spectacular connected with one

of tht4 greatest events in the h:/tory of the English

merit. it was th-,: ;vork;r;^ c^t of for*: us and conditicms,

of thcTx ct-nturi"^ oM, ^rne <i th^n: recent* bat

num en' a 5 an :I worker, g si! ci; t ! y an d i r re - i .st ib" y . No

thought that anythir^ rvr:;arkaKe %Vu>; takir.g
We pause to eTrpV-, *:7o< it 1,-r'cv.:^/ we kn^w bow ir^uch
En^lijih history, h:.w ir.'iih wv-rld histor>% lay in

charge.

A money ecr.^i ration TVV;>
of thiH

mui:hy; united
the atttrr.pt to

, and this united action seemed
an*l:ot unnatural as the rt stilt of all previous
history. It be remembered thr*t these

tives no^jretjkjgisl^^^,^ they

a concentration, jgf. ,k>caliw -unofficial groups.1 And

t&^Sigbeeii using such groups, whether
in or consulted locally? Very often to

infonaadaaji^^ j£Jfs2S?e» an^ 4^"en t°.M'14') an^ ;

in its assessrien^an/i^^pllec To be the

representatives Jn Parliarnent in the earh*^ fourteenth
^ little jnoigjhan^jWs; they did, in

sort, consent to taxation* although this function
be easily^OT^stated; and they certainly
king, throug^^^ja-^iS^S^* with
tion which proved j^checl^
especially the "sKerSs. These he still distrasted,
theFarrogant ancfoppressive behaviour often
upon the people. This last-mentioned use of
tatives was increasing in importance.3
1 "The members came to Westminster not as from con-
stituencies, But as summoned by a sovereign lord; ^"-^^^1^£^ ^s
dele^atrew^^ to do w]-y:||^^ told
thexSrTSuTlisTheunf^
fellows to <^rrprot^^
of Parfimment, p. I*j^**t-"*w^^
3 Riesss in his GescMckte des Wahlrechts Parlamcnt, di» i,
regards the ciecMng and controlling of the in