Chapter I: James I. his arbitrary claims, 183

⸺ mistaken policy in encreasing monopolies, 185

⸺ institutes a new title of honour, 209

Independence of the King, the idea thereof entertained by the early
Franks, 31

Inhabitants of Europe, their propensity to the making of new laws, 5

Innocent III., 334

Inns of Court, wherefore founded, 6

⸺ their ancient usefulness, _ibid._

⸺ their present state, 7

⸺ Institution to a living, 82

Interdict laid on England by Innocent III., 334

Investiture proper, 58

⸺ improper, 59

⸺ its nature fixes the line of duty, 69

John, King, mutual hatred between him and his nobles, 110

⸺ his arbitrary government, 154, 352

⸺ claims a right of taxation, 177

⸺ omits summoning some of the Barones majores, 189

⸺ deprives the earls of the thirds of the county profits, 199

⸺ supplants his nephew Arthur, 331

Jornandes, 37

Ireland, peerages there recovered by petition, 195

⸺ erected into palatinates, 200

⸺ form of trial of noblemen in that kingdom, 204

⸺ the statutes of Edward II. abolished, 209

⸺ state of legislation there, 218, 222

⸺ influence of Poyning’s law on its government, 221

Issue joined, 292

Italian priests, the chief possessors of benefices in England in
John’s reign, 342

Judges itinerant, 294

⸺ their jurisdiction, 298

⸺ of assize, 366

⸺ judgment, in what instances obtained without the intervention
of juries, 354

Juries, trial by, 251

⸺ their original power, 247

⸺ judges of law and fact, 294, 356

Justice, method of administering it among the Salic Franks, 37

Justices of Nisi Prius, 248, 299

⸺ errant, _ibid._

⸺ of assize, _ibid._

⸺ of oyer and terminer, 299

⸺ of gaol delivery, 248

⸺ of Quarter Sessions, 248, 366

⸺ in Eyre, 294

Judiciary of England, 248, 300

⸺ discontinued by Edward I., 304

K

Kildare, county palatine of, 201

King’s Bench, court of, 300

⸺ its power in taking bail, 301

⸺ suits cognizable therein, 300, 301, 306

⸺ its peculiar distinctions, 312, 314

King never dies, origin of that maxim, 139

Kings elective among the Franks, 28, 29

⸺ their power, 48, 49

⸺ Norman, the arms borne by them, 207

Kings of England, their power anciently limited, 71

⸺ their right of service from their vassals, _ibid._

⸺ possessed of donatives, 83

⸺ their ecclesiastical jurisdiction, 84

⸺ their title to supreme ordinary, whence derived, _ibid._

⸺ their power by the feudal law, 170

⸺ executive branch of government belongs to them, 171

⸺ their revenue, 172

⸺ their supplies for foreign wars, 173

⸺ their authority, whence derived, 175

⸺ their proclamations, how far legal, 183

⸺ their dispensing power, 186

⸺ their demesnes unalienable, 189

⸺ their prerogative of summoning the lesser Barons to parliament,
190

⸺ their right of raising peers to a higher rank, 196

⸺ their power of settling precedency, _ibid._

⸺ not one of the three estates, but the head of all, 202

⸺ their right of appointing peers to try an accused nobleman, 204

⸺ ancient concern in making laws, 217

⸺ their present influence in framing laws, 218

⸺ their style when speaking of themselves, 265

⸺ have no power to create new criminal courts, 377

Kingsale, Lord, 196

Knights, origin of that dignity, 34

⸺ their advantages over the Lords with regard to feudal payments,
109

⸺ service, 129

⸺ when abolished, 150

⸺ fees, 188

⸺ their privileges by writ of election to parliament, 192

⸺ their rank, 206

⸺ their ancient dignity, 207

⸺ BANNERET, 208