English Constitutional Law, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Constitutional law, Tudor, Stuart period, Parliament, Succession 

"With the present impression this work has reached the sixth edition, and as the title-page sets forth that it has been revised throughout with notes, a few preliminary remarks form myself, the present editor with be appropriate. More than three decades have passed since the author gave to the work, in the second edition, the last touches it was ever to receive from his hand. the third and fourth editions were committed to the able charge of Mr. C. E. H. Carmichael, now unhappily no more; while the task of revising the re-issue in the fifth edition was entrusted to me. a sixth edition, demanded by the extraordinary popularity of the work and by the great and increasing interest in the subject, is now required, and the invitation of the publishers - whose courtesy throughout I gratefully acknowledge - to again undertake the labor of revising and seeking Mr. Taswell-Langmead's "Magnum Opus" through the press has given me much satisfaction..." Editor's preface  

Contents:
From the Teutonic conquest of Britain to the Norman conquest of England
The Norman conquest
Reigns of the Norman and first Angevin kings
Magna Charta
Administrative system under the Norman and Plantagenet kings
The succession to the crown
Origin of parliament
Growth of parliament (1295-1399)
Parliament under the Lancastrian and Yorkist king (139901485)
The Tudor period (1485-1603) - Reigns of Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward Vi, Mary
The reformation in England
The Tudor period - reign of Elizabeth (1558-1603)
The Stuart period (1603-1688) - I. From the accession of James I. To the passing of the petition of right
The Stuart period II. From the petition of right to the restoration (1629-1660)
The Stuart Period III. From the restoration to the passing of the bill of rights (1660-1689)
Progress of the constitution since the revolution
Progress of the constitution since the revolution continued