TABLE II.

Showing Claims of Edward III. to the Crown of France.

Showing the Claims of Henry IV. and Henry VII.

490. Ella of Sussex first assumed the title of King.

568. Ethelbert, first Christian King.

597. Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury.

871. Alfred the Great, the first Earl.

By second wife

Joseph
King

Archduke

Charles took the

title of Charles III. of Spain

(Student's Hume.')

801. Edward the Elder, first styled himself King of the English-‘ Rex Anglorum.'

925. Athelstane, first styled himself King of Britain-Rex totius Britanniæ.'

1172. Henry II., first Lord of Ireland.

1284. Edward II., first Prince of Wales.

1336. Edward the Black Prince, first Duke.

1337. Edward III., first assumed the title of King of France.

(1801. George III. dropped the title.)

1349. Order of the Garter established.

1377. Knights of the Bath created by Richard II.

(Richard II.) Robert de Vere the first Marquis (Marquis of Dublin). 1401. Sir William Sautre, proto-martyr under the Act 'de comburendo haeretico.

1440. John Beaumont, first Viscount.

1541. Henry VIII., first assumed the title of King of Ireland.

1603. James I., first King of Great Britain.

1611. James I. first created Baronetcies.

THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT.

The Three Estates are the Sovereign, the Lords, and the Commons.
The Royal Prerogatives are:-

1. To elect Ministers.

2. To assent to bills, without which they cannot become law.

3. To summon, prorogue, and dissolve Parliament.

4. To confer nobility.

5. To coin money.

6. To make war.

7. To pardon criminals.

The Commons. Their chief duties are to assist in making laws and to vote money bills.

The Chairman of the House is called the Speaker.

When a bill has been read or passed by a majority three times it is then sent to the House of Lords (if it did not originate in that House).

Forty members form a quorum.

A Member may not resign his seat. When he wishes to do so he accepts the Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds, which he may resign forthwith.

The Lords. Their chief duties are to revise the decisions of the Commons. Nevertheless bills of any sort, except money bills, may and do often originate with them.

The House of Lords is also the highest court of justice.

The Chairman is called the Lord Chancellor, and sits on the Woolsack.
Three peers form a quorum.

When a bill has passed both Houses three times the Sovereign is requested to assent to it. On receiving the royal assent the Bill becomes an Act of Parlia

ment.

The Sovereign must be a Protestant, a member of the Anglican Church, and is bound to maintain the Presbyterian Church of Scotland.

On three occasions the Parliament assumed the prerogative of nominating a King, viz. in the case of Henry IV., of Henry VII., and of William III.

On two occasions Parliament was summoned without a royal warrant, and was hence called a 'Convention'-in 1660 to bring about the Restoration; and in 1689 by letters from William of Orange to establish his own title to the Crown.

I. (1) That no scutage be imposed except by the Common Council

of the realm.

(2) That no freeman be imprisoned or deprived of property except by the laws of the land.

(3) That justice be not sold, delayed, or denied to any.

II. Also called Confirmatio Cartarum.' It decreed that no taxes be levied without the consent of the Peers and Commons.

III. Prohibited:

(1) Forced loans.

(2) The imprisonment of those who refused to pay loans.
(3) Billeting soldiers on private houses.

(4) Trying sailors by martial law.

IV. (1) That it is unlawful to send anyone to prison beyond the seas.
(2) Anyone imprisoned may demand that within a certain time he be
brought into court and the cause of his imprisonment stated.

If the jail be within twenty miles of court the writ of Habeas
Corpus must be obeyed within three days.

(3) That all prisoners be indicted the first term and tried the second
after commitment.

V. (1) To maintain a standing army in time of peace without the consent of Parliament is illegal.

(2) That no taxes be levied without the consent of Parliament.

(3) That Members of Parliament have free speech and free elections. VI. (1) That the Sovereign must be in communion with the Church of

England.

(2) That he must not leave the kingdom without the consent of his Parliament.

(3) That no pensioner on royal bounty be allowed to sit in the House of Commons.

(4) That no foreigner hold any state appointment or receive any Crown grant.

(5) That judges be independent of the Crown.

That no royal pardon be available against an impeachment of the
Commons.

(3) and (6) have been repealed.

I. (1) That all crimes not strictly ecclesiastical shall be tried in civil

courts.

(2) The clergy shall not leave the country without the King's consent. (3) Bishops shall do homage to the King, who shall also receive the revenues of vacant sees.

II. Forbade property to be left to the Church without the King's consent. III. Prohibited the Pope from conferring benefices on either Englishmen or foreigners.

IV. Outlawed anyone that should introduce into the realm a papal bull.
V. Transferred annates, or first fruits, from the Pope to Henry VIII.
VI. Whereby the Sovereign became supreme head of the Anglican
Church.

II. Forbade on pains and penalties all forms of worship save that established by law.

III. (1) All corporate officers must receive the Sacrament according to the rites of the Anglican Church.