Erskine May's "Constitutional History"

Contents of Volume III

The numbers on the left are the printed page numbers corresponding to the start of the web page containing each section (some pages contain two sections), and are provided to assist in using the index.

CHAPTER XI

LIBERTY OF THE SUBJECT

•   1 General Warrants
•  10 Habeas Corpus and Impressment
•  25 Civil Imprisonment and Slavery
•  39 Spies and Informers
•  49 Protection of Foreigners

CHAPTER XII

THE CHURCH AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY

•  60 The Reformation
•  71 Religious Affairs to 1760
•  82 Advance of Toleration
•  94 Advance of Toleration, Continued
• 107 Advance of Toleration, to the Union with Ireland
• 119 Failure of the Catholic Claims

CHAPTER XIII

THE CHURCH AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY, CONTINUED

• 133 The Catholic Claims under the Regency
• 146 The Catholic Claims to 1828
• 156 Catholic Emancipation Achieved
• 172 Results of Catholic Emancipation
• 172 Quakers and Jews

CHAPTER XIV

THE CHURCH AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY, CONTINUED

• 188 Marriage and Burial: Civil Registration
• 188 Universities
• 199 Dissenters' Chapels: Church Rates
• 209 Progress of the Church: Tithes
• 222 Progress of Dissent
• 222 The 'Papal Aggression'
• 235 Scotland: The Disruption
• 255 Religious Affairs in Ireland

CHAPTER XV

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

• 275 English Parishes and Boroughs
• 288 Scottish and Irish Municipalities: Local Boards and Counties

CHAPTER XVI

IRELAND BEFORE THE UNION

• 299 Ireland to 1779
• 311 Ireland: Volunteers and United Irishmen
• 325 The Rebellion of 1798 and the Union

CHAPTER XVII

BRITISH COLONIES AND DEPENDENCIES

• 338 The American Revolution
• 356 The New Colonial Empire
• 377 India

CHAPTER XVIII

PROGRESS OF GENERAL LEGISLATION

• 385 Law Reform
• 393 The Criminal Law
• 405 The Poor Law: Factory Acts: Education
• 415 Free Trade: Conclusion

SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER

1861-1871

• 425 Parliamentary Reform
• 443 Other Political Events 1866-71