OF

THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION

EY

SIR EDWARD CREASY, M.A,

CHIEF JUSTICE OF CEYLON

AUTHOR OF THE FIFTEEN DECISIVE BATTLES OF THE WORLD ETO.

RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET

Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty

1867

THE NEW YOR
PUBLIC LIBRAK!

163031

ASTOR, LENCX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1899.

LONDON

PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO.

OLY YRASSU

NEW-STREET SQUARE

DEDICATED TO

HENRY PEARSON, ESQ., M.A.,

OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE. BARRISTER-AT-LAW,

BY HIS FRIEND.

THE AUTHOR.