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Title: Medieval and modern times; an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Robinson, James Harvey, 1863-1936
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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s togrant him money, he gratified Parliament by asking their adviceand listening to their petitions. He passed no new law withoutadding by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritualand temporal and of the commons. At this time the separation of the two houses of Parliamenttook place, and ever since the lords spiritual and temporal -J—that is, the bishops and higher nobles — have sat by themselvesin the House of Lords, and a House of Commons, including thecountry gentlemen (knights) and the representatives elected bythe more important towns, have met by themselves. Parliamentthus made up is really a modern, not a medieval, institution,and we shall hear much of it later. Wales and Scotland 26. The English kings who preceded Edward I had ruledover only a portion of the island of Great Britain. To the westEd^d if°re °^ tne*r kingdom lay the mountainous district of Wales, in-(1272-1307) habited by that remnant of the original Britons which the Extent of theking ofEnglands
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