Chapter XIV: provides for the assembly of the council when its consent

is necessary for raising an aid or a scutage. Individual summonses
must be sent to the prelates and greater barons, while the lesser
barons will be called together through the sheriffs and bailiffs. At
least forty days' notice of the meeting must be given, and the cause
thereof specified. No chapter corresponding to this is found in the
Articles and none was inserted in the reissues of Magna Carta. It is
very interesting, but it does not constitute any marked advance in the
history of parliament, as it merely expresses the customary method of
summoning a council. It does not, as has been sometimes asserted, in
any way establish a representative system, as this is understood
to-day.