[506]. Engl. Const. Hist., 123. “The smaller tenants-in-chief would thankfully regard the general summons as an intimation to stay away.”
[507]. Engl. Const., I. 466.
[508]. See Const. Hist., I. 666. “Whether or no the fourteenth article of the Great Charter intended to provide for a representation of the minor tenants-in-chief by a body of knights elected in the county court,” etc.
[509]. Cf. supra, p. [36]. The writ appears in Rot. Claus, I. 165, and also in Sel. Charters, 287. Cf. New Rymer, I. 117.
[510]. Cf. supra, c. 12.
[511]. Cf. Anson, Law and Custom, I. 44. “The provisions of 1215 described an assembly of a type which was already passing away.” Cf. what is said of reactionary tendencies in connection with cc. 37 and 39.
[512]. Cf. Report on Dignity of a Peer, I. 63, where it is mentioned as “remarkable that no one article in the Charter has reference to the previous existence of any assembly convened for general purposes of legislation; nor does the charter contain any provision for the calling of any such assembly in the future, or any provision purporting the existence by law of any representative system for the purpose of general legislation.”
[513]. Cf. Stubbs, Const. Hist., I. 607: “Absence, like silence, on such occasions implies consent.”
[514]. See Pipe Roll of 5 Henry III., cited Madox, I. 675.
[515]. See Prothero, Simon de Montfort, 67, and authorities there mentioned.