ken,
nothing appears on the roll.

[102] Rot. Parl. vol. ii. p. 104.

[103] Id.

[104] Rot. Parl. vol. ii. p. 161.

[105] Case of impositions in Howell's State Trials, vol. ii. p. 371-519;
particularly the argument of Mr. Hakewill. Hale's Treatise on the
Customs, in Hargrave's Tracts, vol. i.

Edward III. imposed another duty on cloth exported, on the pretence
that, as the wool must have paid a tax, he had a right to place the
wrought and unwrought article on an equality. The commons remonstrated
against this; but it was not repealed. This took place about 22 E. III.
Hale's Treatise, p. 175.

[106] Rot. Parl. p. 160.

[107] p. 161, 166, 201.

[108] 25 E. III. stat. v. c. 8.

[109] Rot. Parl. vol. ii. p. 366.

[110] Prynne's 4th Register, p. 289.

[111] Rot. Parl. p. 304.

[112] Rot. Parl. p. 310. In the mode of levying subsidies a remarkable
improvement took place early in the reign of Edward III. Originally two
chief taxors were appointed by the king for each county, who named
twelve persons in every hundred to assess the moveable estate of all
inhabitants according to its real value. But in 8 E. III., on complaint
of parliament that these taxors were partial, commissioners were sent
round to compound with every town and parish for a gross sum, which was
from thenceforth the fixed quota of subsidy, and raised by the
inhabitants themselves. Brady on Boroughs, p. 81.

[113] Laws appear to have been drawn up, and proposed to the two houses
by the king, down to the time of Edward I. Hale's Hist. of Common Law,
p. 16.

Sometimes the representatives of particular places address separate
petitions to the king and council; as the citizens of London, the
commons of Devonshire, &c. These are intermingled with the general
petitions, and both together are for the most part very numerous. In the
roll of 50 Edw. III. they amount to 140.

[114] Rot. Parl. p. 239.

[115] Rot. Parl. p. 113.

[116] p. 280.

[117] "If there be any difference between an ordinance and a statute, as
some have collected, it is but only this, that an ordinance is but
temporary till confirmed and made perpetual, but a statute is perpetual
at first, and so have some ordinances also been." Whitelocke on
Parliamentary Writ, vol. ii. p. 297. See Rot. Parl. vol. iii. p. 17;
vol. iv. p. 35.

[118] These may be found in Willis's Notitia Parliamentaria. In 28 E. I.
the universities were summoned to send members to a great council in
order