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addressed, and tfi.'n thi* yrr/i* rn *"•.: ?OT rir.r! miiat to

would r;r:;-:. Pr:L?! \i *; <TJ v,.*.-1.3 K* a '/.v, .y-n t>! opinion,

at tl;».j lack rr:LTi4 \TWJ •*, %, :•; r- * "* ^ , ;r » L ;A^.:,- :r; the
fn.nt the i^rlit^iir : *,/'. L«:J(; •• nj- n.v '! ar/! f,,r nici'f-
wty ^f rtfusjJ; tir?:i J :r r.'-'r- u* *'/, f *v r;.;/^4 t.li their
dar>;^ but hi*J-c .r.;fci ol.«1 ^I*-:,.^r% «t *}.» ;r Li I; t-/ paik
for thi.ni?tlT» >cS»i tir, 1 tlv r, nr,,! 1 *./.. rvj*'. rir'.j «*!, I r>".'i,;rtT-iir-
in^r, the chrir*c llc-r . r <.*/'. r ;;;.:r/'r nf iht- c*ur/:, rr,:.;;i;

a

the ccmir. ,.n< ^" .":!: ^^ ;r, ". v«*k it v.-r ;-.::; n^r i\ r,:>\ *,*;<*•«,
and th'T. C"*/rrv-- ",\:k v;:t*: rr, in: I/,fV ,fcr v :.r, C*l:; .;. m*.*
such cccv,-i':n it rr/:=t 3;uvc t,ai /y/^.^ud **:,*! thiy -I^uM
chccs^ ftrv.- ^r.i1 cx f:>Jr m-.rr^".r? *.":». t!v :r ?;/•. uk.r, r*?;.i
that hifc> answer, whtthiT rr^r^-jr/trr tir.tr :mh;* c.c Lut a
small majority, ?l;cld ^ o^r./Lltrid tqii'**ly 1 :r, linj upon
all. The ecmmor^ t'.r n trr;'r,]"ca » ut -"f t^rlr^r^ r,* to dis-
cuss in seme m,;cv iriv^t;- j !..."* th.ir ^"'iik, i:c d:ffrtvT4ecs
They only reap]\*aru! In j.arHit^frjt v. l'..n th'.y had readied
a resolution which vras rvt,<,,rkfi 1-y t^-.* Speak jr; he

alone had liberty cf tp^ck in pa.rMinitnt/

Soon in separate buildings bccar:^ regular: the

lords in the Icing's parliament or*an;b»:r and the ccn:rrions
In the chapterhouse of Wistnrln<ttr Ai:!;i} 2

6. The Electors, the and the la

County and Borough Buriag the First Two of

Parliament. — In discussing the beginnings cf rc-pre^cnta-
tion and election, the king's early use of them for
purposes, his concentration of local groups at convenient
points, the resulting gradual growth of a representative
element in the national assembly, and the joining of
knights and burgesses in a lower house, nothing has
said of the way in which the elections were conducted
or how they were regarded, and but little of the per-
sonnel of the elected. Probably not much on

these subjects will ever be known. For the fact,

of Parliament, p. 121.

2 Westminster was the usja! but not the

,,
Several were held In