SELECT STATUTES, CASES

AND DOCUMENTS

SELECT STATUTES

CASES AND DOCUMENTS

TO ILLUSTRATE ENGLISH
CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY, 1660-1832

WITH A SUPPLEMENT FROM 1832-1894

EDITED BY

C. GRANT ROBERTSON, M.A.

FELLOW OF ALL SOULS' COLlege, Oxford

EXAMINER IN THE HONOUR SCHOOL OF MODERN HISTORY IN THE
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1901-1904

NEW YORK: G. P PUTNAM'S SONS

LONDON: METHUEN & CO.

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First Published in 1904

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STATUTES AND DOCUMENTS, 1660-1832

(† means printed in Gee and Hardy's Collection; * means printed or partially printed
in Adams and Stephens' Collection.)

*I. 12 Cha. II. c. 24 (The Abolition of Feudal Tenures)

II. 13 Cha. II. St. i. c. 5 (Act against Tumultuous Petitioning)

+*IV. 13 Cha. II. St. ii. c. 1 (The Corporation Act. No. 1)

+*V. 14 Cha. II. c. 4 (The Act of Uniformity)

VI. 14 Cha. II. c. 33 (The Licensing Act)

VII. 16 Cha. II. c. 1 (A Triennial Act)

+*VIII. 17 Cha. II. c. 2 (The Five Mile Act)

+IX. 22 Cha. II. c. 1 (The Conventicle Act. No. 2)

+*X. 25 Cha. II. c. 2 (The Test Act)

*The Declaration of Indulgence, 1672

The Resolutions of the House of Commons

*XI. 31 Cha. II. c. 2 (The Habeas Corpus Amendment Act)

A Writ and the Return to the Writ under the Act

*XII. 1 Will. and Mar. c. 1 (The Legislation of the Convention

Parliament)

The Letters summoning the Convention Parliament

*XIII. 1 Will. and Mar. c. 5 (The Mutiny Act)

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Resolutions of the House of Commons in 1669 and 1701

The Modern Form of the same, 1 Edw. VII. c. 2

A Protest of Dissenting Peers (1718)

XIV. 1 Will, and Mar. c. 6 (The Coronation Oath Act)

The Coronation Oath in 1660, 1689, 1902

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XV. 1 Will, and Mar. c. 8 (The Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance

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