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urisdiction, 222-225; its protest against the exactions of the church, 238, 239 and _notes_; its share in the council of Constance, 244 and _note_; enactment of the statute of praemunire, 251; effect of Wicliff's principles, 252; progress of the country under the Anglo-Saxons [see Anglo-Saxons]; its state at the period of the Norman conquest, 302, 303; fruitless resistance of its people to Norman rule, 304 and _notes_; expulsion of its prelates and maltreatment of its nobles, 305 and _note_; attempted suppression of its language, 306 and _note_; wholesale spoliation of property, 308; abject condition of English occupiers, 309, 310; vastness of the Norman estates explained, 310; conquered England compared with conquered Gaul, 311; forest devastations and forest laws, 311, 312 and _notes_; depopulation of the towns, 312; establishment of feudal customs, 314; preservation of the public peace, 315; difference between feudalism in England and in France, 316, 317; hatred by the English of the Normans, 318; oppressions and exactions of the Norman government, 318, 320; nature of the taxes then levied, 321, 322; laws and charters of the Norman kings, 323, 324; banishment of Longchamp by the barons, 325; establishment of Magna Charta, 326; difficulty of overrating its value, 327; outline of its provisions, 321, 328; confirmation thereof by Henry III., 329; constitutional struggles between him and his barons, 331, 334; limitations on the royal prerogative, 334, 335 and _notes_; institution of the various courts of law, 336-338; origin of the common law, 339-341; character and defects of the English law, 341-343; hereditary right of the crown established, 343-346; legal position of the gentry, 346-348; causes of civil equality, 348-351; character of its government, iii. 147; prerogatives of its kings, 147-150; mitigation of the forest laws, 150 and _note_ p; jurisdiction of its constable and marshal, 151, 152 and _notes_; spirit of independence exhibited in mediaeval ballads, 265-267; its customs farmed by Italian bankers, 339, 340 _note_ d. English constitution, character of the, iii. 152; Sir John Fortescue's doctrine, 153-155; Hume's erroneous views regarding it, 155, 158; causes tending to its formation, 159; effect of the loss
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