Lecture Xxii.--Page 476

Condition of the Parliament under Edward III.

Progress of the power of the Commons.

Their resistance to the king.

Regularity of the convocation of Parliament.

Measures taken for the security of its deliberations.

Division of the Parliament into two Houses.

Speaker of the House of Commons.

Firmness of the House of Commons in maintaining its right to grant taxes.

Accounts given by the government of the collection of the taxes.

Appropriation of the funds granted by Parliament.

Parliamentary legislation.

Difference between statutes and ordinances.