Chapter II: Appendix: 386
INDEX 394
ILLUSTRATIONS.
PAGE
Governmental structure x
Genealogy, monarchs of England and Scotland Chapter I.,
Footnote 9.
Genealogy, monarchs of Europe Chapter I.,
Footnote 14.
Map of Rochelle area 46
Battle of Edgehill, 23^{rd} Oct. 1642 126
Battles of Newbury, 20^{th} Sept. 1643 & 27^{th} Oct. 1644 145
Battle of Marston Moor, 2^{nd} July 1644 164
Map of Lostwithiel area 169
Battle of Naseby, 14^{th} June 1645 185
Map of Lancashire 229
Battle of Dunbar, 3^{rd} Sept. 1650 289
Battle of Worcester, 3^{rd} Sept. 1651 294
GOVERNMENT.
|
+--------------------+-------------------------+
| | |
Legislative, Executive, Judicial, deciding what
framing laws executing laws law is, and whether it
| | is broken or not.
| | |
| | +-------+-------+
| | | |
| | Civil Ecclesiastical
| | Courts Courts
| | | |
+-----+---+ +-----+---+ +---+----+ +--+----+
| | | | | | | |
Legal Arbitrary Legal Arbitrary Legal Arbitrary Legal Arbitrary
Legislative,
framing laws
|
+-------------------+-----------------------------------+
| |
Legal Arbitrary
| |
+-------+-----------+---------+------------+-----------+ |
| | | | | | |
| | | freeholders freeholders inhabitants |
| | | holding by holding by of certain |
| | | free socage, feudal towns |
| | | who elect service, elect |
| | | | who elect | |
| | | | | | |
| | | +-----+-----+ | |
| | about 120 | | |
| 26 bishops peers about 100 about |
| and sitting by knights of 400 |
| archbishops hereditary shires burgesses |
| | right | | |
| | | | | |
| +---------+-+ +----+-------------+ |
| | | |
King House of Lords House of Commons King who
\ | / by prerogative
\ | / |
+--------------+-------------------+ |
| +------+
Parliament |
| |
+----------+----------+ +---------+-------+
| | | |
makes grants makes raises loans,
laws subsidies and proclamations ship-money,
customs in council grants
monopolies
Executive,
executing laws
|
+-------------------+----------------------+
| |
Legal Arbitrary
| |
King who in King who by
the eye of prerogative
the law can |
‘do no wrong’ |
| |
makes treaties, declares war, arrests by personal mandate,
but has no standing army, and imprisons without habeas
has no money without Parliament; corpus, billets soldiers
|
|
+-------+------------------+----------------+
| | |
secretaries and appoints sheriffs
councillors appointed lords-lieutenant, enforce
and removed by king, but and officers of decisions
in the eye of the law militia by sea of judges
‘responsible;’ carrying and land
out laws and collecting
revenue through their
agents
Judicial, deciding what
law is, and whether it
is broken or not.
|
+------------+-------------------------+
| |
| Ecclesiastical
Civil Courts Courts. No
| trial by jury
| |
+---------------------+ +-----+-----+
| | | |
Legal Arbitrary Legal Arbitrary
| No trial | |
| by jury | |
| | | |
+-----------+------+ | | |
| | | | |
Equity Common law. | | |
| Trial by jury | | |
| | | | |
| +-----+ +---+ | |
| | | | |
Court of +--King’s +--Council Courts of High
Chancery; | Bench | Board bishops Commission;
lord chancellor | (Note A) | (Note B) who were judges
appointed | | appointed appointed
by king +--Common +--Star by king by king
| Pleas | Chamber
| (Note A) | (Note C)
| |
+--Exchequer +--Council
(Note A) of North
(Note D)
Notes
(A) Judges appointed and removed by king, but by their oaths bound to
give judgment according to the laws, and to do equal law and execution
of right, without having regard to any person
(B) Councillors appointed and removed by king; use of torture
(C) Judges, councillors, and others appointed by king
(D) President appointed by king
KING AND COMMONWEALTH.
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