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Henry III--Reissues of the Charter--Assessment of a carucage by
the Council--Conditional Grants--Rejected offer of a disbursing
commission--Supervision of expenditures--Representation as it
was in Henry’s National Council--Knights of the shire called,
1254--Provisions of Oxford--Knights of the shire summoned
by Henry and Simon de Montfort to national assemblies--In
Parliament, 1264--Simon de Montfort’s Great Parliament,
1265--First instance of burgher representation--House of
Commons foreshadowed.