Excerpt from An Address Delivered in the Old South Meeting-House in Boston, November 27, 1895: Before the Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; In Commemoration of the Six Hundredth Anniversary of the First Summoning of Citizens and Burgesses to the Parliament of England; Wherein the History of the House of Commons Is Sketc The admission Of the burgesses and knights Of the shire to the assembly of 1295 completed the fabric of our representative constitution. The Great Council of the Barons had become the Parliament of the realm, a parliament in which every order of the State found itself represented, and took part in the grant Of supplies, the work of legislation, and the control Of government. But in all essential points the character Of Parliament has remained the same from that time to this. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.