An essay on English municipal history

James Thompson

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• Local government
• Great Britain

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 8
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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OF
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AN ESSAY
ON
ENGLISH
MUNICIPAL HISTORY
BY
JA:\IES THOMPSON,
ArTHOlt or HISTOIIY LEICESTER FKOJI THE TIME OF THE liOMiNSi OF
TO THE UXD OF THE SEVJiXTKENTH CE.NXrET.
LONDON
GEEEN, AND CO.LONGMANS,
1867.LKICrSTETl :
WARD AXD SONS, PUINTEUS, WELLINGTON STREET.TO
PAGET, Esq.,THOMAS TERTIUS
OF HUMBERSTONE,
MrXlCIPAL FEEEDOM,HEEEDITAET FRIEM) OFTHE
ItELIGIOrS LIBEETT,civil andAND Flim SUPP0RTJ-:K of
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PAOB----..INTRODUCTION r,V
CHAPTKU I.
KOMAN-BRITISH ....THE MTNICIPALITIES 1
CHAPTKIt II.
-SAXON lOW.N INSTl I niOKS f^
CHAPTER III.
- - -THE BOROrOH OF ST. ALBAN.'i - 16
CHAPTER IV.....THE BOKOrOH OF LKICKSTEK 32
CHAPTEK V.
- -BOEOUUII OF LlilCfSL'EK fCuntiilUedj - -Ac)
CHAPTER VI.
- - -BOROUGH OP LEICESTEIt (Contimtl-d) 65
CHAPTER VII.
-OF LEICESTER CoHchtdedj - - -BOEOUGH ( 80
CHAPTER VIII.-----THE BOKOlGlt OF PRESTON 91
CHAPTER IX......THE CITY OF NOKWICH WQ
CHAPTER X.
- • -NORWICH ^Continued)THE CITY OF 123
CHAPTER XI.....THE CITY OF NORWICH ( Coticludedj 129
CHAPTER XII.THE BOROUGH OF YARMOUTH 137
CHAPTER XIII.
- - -ON MARKET TOWNS NOT INCORPORATED 146
CHAPTER XIV.
-ON MAKKET TOWNS NOT (Concluded) 163
CHAPTER XV.......MUNICIPAL INSIGNIA 173
CHAPTER XVI.
- - - - -180THE FRENCH COMMUNES
(•II.\PTEU XVII.
A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE FRENCH COMMUNES AND
- - - -
- 1 SfiENGLISH BOROUGHS
CHAPTER XVIII......PRACTICAL CONCLUSIONS 193—
" suppose that anyIt would indeed be but slight philosophy to
the infinite varietycue set of circumstances would account for
there are featureswhich the history of towns presents. Though
has its peculiarof resemblance common to them all, yet each
even as thestory, its peculiar conditions of progress and decay ;
each other,children of one family, which bear a likeness to yet
and tears, ofhave each its own tale af joy and sorrow, of smiles
in England, v. 307.triumph and failure." Kejible's Saxom 2, p.