"Previous Question," 139.
Primogeniture, 619.

Printing Committee, 160.
Private Bills,

Classes of, 170.
Notices of, 171.
Petition for, 171.
First reading of, 172.
Commitment of, 173.
Third reading of, 174.
Privateering, 598.

Privilege, Committee of, 72, 464.
Privilege of Parliament (see Sum-
mary Jurisdiction),
Freedom of debate, 45.

New, cannot be created by either
House alone, 211.

Privy Council (see Council, Cabinet
Council, Star Chamber, Im-
peachment, Ministers, Parties),
Modern legislative power of, 22.
Ancient legislative power of, 224.
Controlled by Barons, 225.
Controlled by Parliament, 226.
Impeachment of Members of, 229,

239.

In the Fourteenth Century, 232.
During the Tudor dynasty, 235.
Under Stuart dynasty, 239.
Proposal for nomination of, with

consent of Parliament, 241.
Signature of resolutions of, 242,

243.

Reconstituted by advice of Sir W.
Temple, 242.

Evidence of its advice, 244.
Simultaneous changes in, 246.
Political unity of, 247, 252.
After the Revolution, 248.
In the Nineteenth Century, 254
Appointment, qualifications, du-
ties, and power of, 258.
Its jurisdiction in Star Chamber
and Court of Request, 319.
Commitment by, 429, 437.
Judicial Committee of (see Judi-
cial Committee).

Diminution of duties of, 648.
Committees of, formerly, 648.
Meetings and Duties of, 650, 651.
Modern Committees of, 652.

Privy Seal (see Seal),

During insanity of George III.,

681.

Prize,
Law of, 575.
Court of, 575.

Prize Courts (see Admiralty Courts).
Probate Court,

Appeal from, 480.

Judge of, a member of the Judi-
cial Committee of Privy Coun
cil, 490.

Jurisdiction of, 570.

Procedure in Parliament:
Sittings, 136.

Motions and Orders of the day,
137.

Government Orders of the day,
138.

Previous Question, 139.
Rules of Debates, 140.
Divisions, 141.
Proxies, 142.
Protests, 143.

Votes and Journals, 144.
Publication of Proceedings, 145.
Petitions, 147.

Messages and Addresses, 149.
Joint Committees, 151.
Conferences, 152.

Accounts, Papers, and Docu-
ments, 154.
Committees, General, 157.
Grand Committees, 158.
Select Committees, 161.
Passing of Bills (see Bills).
Supply (see Supply and Money
Bills).

Summary Jurisdiction (see Sum-
mary Jurisdiction).
Proclamations,
Of Charles II., 27.
Modern, 27.

For meeting of Parliament, 55.
Discharge by, at Assizes, 535.
Proctors, 381.

In Roman Law, 375.
Prohibitions,

To Ecclesiastical Courts, 311.
Nature of writs of, 451.
Prorogation,

Address against, 36.
Writ of, 41.
Nature of, 51.

Necessity of Royal Prerogative
of, 56.

Effect of, upon Appeals, 52.

Republic,

Compared with Monarchy, 629.
Request, Court of, 319.
Returning Officers, 111, 113.
Return,

To Parliamentary Writ, 114.
Action for false, 118, 443.
Revenue (see Crown Lands),
Of James II. for life, 38.
Of Charles II., 38.
Hereditary, of Crown, 599.
Prerogative, of Crown, 600.
Revising Barristers, 107, 122.
Richard II.,

Articles against, 97.
Deposition of, 409.
Richmond, Duke of,

Advocates reform of Parliament,
99.

Rights, Bill of (see Bill),
Petition of (see Petition).
Riot, 275.

Rockingham, Marquis of,
Minister of George III., 251.
Roman Catholics,

In Parliament, 129.
Rome, Assemblies of, 4.
Romilly, Sir Samuel,

On Legal Presumption of Inno-
cence, 401.
Royal Assent,

Form of, 48.

By Commission, 49.

Restrictions of, delegation of, 615,
617.

Russell, Lord John,

Advocates Reform in Parliament,
100.

Sacheverell, Dr.,

Impeachment of, 286, 415.

Sanctuary, 418.

Sandys, Sir Edwyn, 46.

Saxon Judicature, 301 (see Anglo-
Saxons).

Schyremote, 301 (see County Courts).
Seire facias (see Writ).
Scotland,

Union of, 9, 68, 94.
Franchise in, 102.

Suffrage in, 107.

Juries in, 350, 364, 365.

Seal,

Great, Authority of, 669.
Privy, Authority of, 662, 670.
Petty, 662, 669.
Secretary at War, 709, 712.
SECRETARIES OF STATE,

Arrest by Warrant of, 436.
Duties of, as to Gaols, 386.
Origin of, 644.
History of, 660.

Division of Offices of, 664.
For Home Department,
Powers of, 666.

Duties of, as to Pardon, 558,
667.

Duties of, as to Police, 668.
Duties of, as to Signet and
Royal Grants, 669.

For Foreign Affairs, 672.
For Colonies,

Abolished, 655, 665.

Colonial Acts referred to, 656.
Duties of, 674.

For India, 676.

For War, 712.

Petty, 540.

Special, 540.

Seven Bishops,

Proceedings against, 263.
Seymour, Lord,

Attainder of, 466.

Seymour, Sir Edward,

Speaker of the House of Com-

mons, 131.
Impeachment of, 200.
Shaftesbury, Lord,

Committed to the Tower, 53, 208,
212.

Issues writs to supply vacancies
in House of Commons, 111, 119.
President of Council, 213.

Sheriffs (see Juries),

Parliamentary Writs to, 13, 111.
Not to omit Returns to Writs, 95.
Tourns of, 302, 312.
Of London, 357.
Origin of, 384.

Elected by People, 384, 593, 726.
In Cities, 384.

Triple Duty of, 385.

Execute Judgments and Sen-

tences, 386.

Have Custody of Gaols, 386.
Immunities of, 422.
Courts of, 527.

Fiscal Duties of, 678.
Ship-Money (see Hampden).
Extrajudicial opinion respecting,

How pleaded, 19.

Controlled by Common Law, 9.
Engrossment of, 17.
Enacting Clauses of, 18.

Stockdale, Tried for Libel, 287.
Stockdale v. Hansard, 217.
Strafford, Earl of,

His Attainder, 241.
Strickland's Case, 46.

Strode,

Fined for Speech in Parliament,

46.

Statute respecting, 47.
Sudbury, disfranchised, 102, 117.
Suffolk, Earl of (see Pole).
Summary Jurisdiction of Parlia-
ment (see Press).
Origin of, 204.

In the reign of James I., 207.
In the reign of Charles II., 209,

212.

Abuse of, resisted by Lords, 211.
In the Eighteenth Century, 212.
Examined in Courts of Law, 209,
213.

Offences cognizable under, 218.
Punishment under, 219.

Summons of Defendant, 389.
Summons to Parliament,
Ancient Form of, 93.

Supplies (see Money Bills, Ways
and Means).

Delay or Refusal of, 38.
Grievances before, 39.
Effect of withholding, 51.
Purposes of, 190.
Classes of, 190.
Committee of, 191.
Estimates for, 193.
Votes of Credit, 193.
Application of, 689.

Tacking Bills,

Opposed by Lords, 84.

Taxation (see Revenue, Taxes).
Temp. Edward III., 15.
Prerogative, 600.

Taxes,

Anciently were temporary, 197.
Temple, Sir William,

His plan for constituting Privy
Council, 242.

Tenants, annual, suffrage of, 105.