The present edition has been revised, and some use made of recent publications. The note on the authenticity of the Icon Basilice, at the end of the second volume of the two former editions, has been withdrawn; not from the slightest doubt in the author's mind as to the correctness of its argument; but because a discussion of a point of literary criticism, as this ought to be considered, seemed rather out of its place in the Constitutional History of England.
April 1832.
LIST OF AUTHORITIES
The following Editions have been used for the References in these Volumes
Statutes at Large, by Ruffhead, except where the late edition of Statutes of the Realm is expressly quoted.
State Trials, by Howell.
Rymer's Fœdera, London, 20 vols.
The paging of this edition is preserved in the margin of the Hague edition in 10 vols.