XL. Observations on Mr. Maseres's View of the ancient Constitution of the English Parliament, by Charles Mellish, Esquire. In a Letter to the Rev. Mr. Norris, Secretary to the Society of Antiquaries

Charles Mellish Esquire

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XL. Observations on Mr. Maseres's View of the ancient Constitution of the English Parliament, by Charles Mellish, Esquire. In a Letter to the Rev. Mr. Norris, Secretary to the Society of Antiquaries

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Charles Mellish Esquire

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I Have read with attention Mr. Maseres's View of the ancient Constitution of the English Parliament; and have received great information from the many ingenious remarks there made on a subject confessedly obscure and intricate.

Type: Research Article
Information: Archaeologia , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , 1773 , pp. 341 - 352

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261340900015836 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1773

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^{page 342 note [a]} Hale's Hist. C. L. 5th ch.

^{page 342 note [b]} De Mor. Germ.

^{page 342 note [c]} Ibid.

^{page 343 note [d]} L. xxx. c. 7.

^{page 343 note [e]} C. 2.

^{page 343 note [f]} Wilkins Ll. Alfred 4. Ll. Cnut 54.

^{page 344 note [g]} Lib. VII.

^{page 344 note [h]} See Ll. Cnut 51, et passim, as to Slavery, and Ll, Alfred 37 as to Estates. See also Wilkins's account of the claim of the Sharburn Family, in his preface to the Laws of William I.

^{page 345 note [i]} See Ll. Alfred, 37.

^{page 345 note [k]} See Plowden.

^{page 345 note [l]} On 31 chap. of Magna Charta.

^{page 346 note [k]} History of Manchester, p. 251.

^{page 349 note [l]} Whitaker's History of Manchester, p. 206e.

^{page 350 note [o]} 1 Inst. p. 136. b. 137. b.

^{page 350 note [p]} 1 Instit. ib. from Lib. Ruber. c. 78.

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XL. Observations on Mr. Maseres's View of the ancient Constitution of the English Parliament, by Charles Mellish, Esquire. In a Letter to the Rev. Mr. Norris, Secretary to the Society of Antiquaries

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