ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF ENGLISH CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY.
Original Illustrations of English Constitutional History. By D. S. Medley, M.A. (Methuen and Co. 7e. Gd. net.)—We may explain that " Original Illustrations " are illustrations from original .clocuments. Thus we have in chap. 1," Excerpts from the Secular Laws of Cnut " ; in 2, with other documents, Magna -Chaste; in 3, the Constitutions of Clarendon. So the author proceeds down to his latest date, the union of England and Ireland (1800). We need hardly say that the book will be found valuable to the student, and, indeed, contains much that will interest any reader. Here is a notable item under date 1401: " The Commons prayed our Lord the King that the business done and to be done in this Parliament, might be enacted and engrossed before the departure of the Justices, whilst they had it in their recollection." To which the answer was made that the Clerk of the Parliament should do his duty in enacting and engrossing the work of the Parliament with the advice of the Justices, and then show it to the King and to the Lords in .Parliament in order to know their opinions.
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