^{page 255 note 1} Eccles. Polity, Lib. 1. Sect.10.

^{page 256 note 1} Sir Henry Spelman in his Glossary says thus, under the Word Gemotum, “Wittenagemot idem apud Anglo-saxones, quod apud nos hodie Parliamentum, parumque à Folemoto defferebat, nisi quod hoc annuum esset, & è certis plerumque Causis, illud ex arduis Contengentibus, & Legum Condendarum gratiâ, ad Arbitrarium Principis indicium.”

^{page 256 note 2} Caesar. Comment. Lib. 5. Summa Imperii bellique Administrandi communi Concilio permissa est Cassivelano.

^{page 256 note 3} De Minoribus Rebus Principes consultant, de Majoribus omnes.

^{page 256 note 4} See the ed. by J. Whittaker (London: B. Quaritch, 1895).

^{page 256 note 5} The Mirror of Justice was written in the Saxon Times, as it appears from the Book it self, and it was revised, and some Things added to it, by the learned and wise Lawyer Andrew Horne, who lived in the Reigns of King Edward the First, and King Edward the Second.

Myrror, page 10.

For the good Estate of the Realm, King Alfred cause the Counties to assemble, and ordained it for a perpetual usage, that twice a Year, or offener if need were, in Time of Peace, they should assemble at London, to sit in Parliament, for the Guidance of God's People, how the Nation should keep themselves from Sin, live in Quiet, and receive Right by certain Usages, and holy Judgments.

^{page 257 note 1} W. Petyt: 1636–1707, Antiquity and Power of the House of Commons, 1739; The Ancient Right of the Commons of England Asserted, 1680.Google Scholar

^{page 257 note 2} James Tyrrel, 1642–1718, Bibtiotheca Politica, a series of 14 political Dialogues published between 1692 and 1702, in which he treated of the constitutional issues raised by the later Stuarts and the Revolution, and gave a Whig view of the question. They were collected into one vol. in 1727.

^{page 257 note 3} Thos. Rymer 1641–1713, Fœdera, Conventions, …ab 1066 ad nostra tempora, 15 vols (1704–13)

^{page 257 note 4} Sir Robert Filmer, 1588–1653, author of Patriacha, circa 1650; Robert Brady, died 1700, wrote several books on the history of England: An Historical Treatise of Cities & Burghs, or Boroughs, showing their Original, &c, 1690 in the preface of which, he showed that ‘they have nothing of the greatness and authority they boast of, but from the bounty of our ancient kings and their ancestors.’; Sir Roger Lestrange, 1616–1704, journalist and writer of political pamphlets; Dr George Hicks, 1642–1715, Bishop of Thetford, and linguist; Charles Lesley, 1750–1722, non-juror, partisan of James II, attacked William III, then attached himself to the Pretender after 1715.

^{page 258 note 1} Sir Gilbert de Thornton, composed a Summa at the end of the 13th century.

^{page 258 note 2} Nath. Bacon's Historical Discourse of the Uniformity of the Governement of England. [Nath. Bacon, half- brother of Francis, 1593–1660).]

^{page 259 note 1} Lib. 1. De Nat. Deorum. Fides etiam & Societas humani generis & unâ excellentissima Virtus Justitia tollitur.

^{page 259 note 2} MACH. Disc. Page 284.

^{page 260 note 1} The same proclamation of 5 July 1727.

^{page 261 note 1} Lord William Russell, 1639–83, & Algernon Sidney, 1622–83, were leaders against the Court's policy, at the time of the Exclusion Bill crisis; they were executed after the Whigs were defeated. Henry Cornish, d. 1685, merchant and alderman of London, was convicted on trumped up charges, for his unconciliatory attitude to James II.

^{page 261 note 2} An Act for Regulating of Tryals in Cases of Treason, and Misprision of Treason.

^{page 262 note 1} Mist's Journal, first appeared in Dec. 1716, continued as Mist's Weekly Journal, then as Fog's Weekly Journal until 1737.

^{page 262 note 2} Here are probably meant London newspapers generally, for no newspaper was called the Gazette, or had the word Gazette in its title at this date, except the Weekly Journal, or the British Gazeteer.