59, 147, 150, 212 note¹

Cholmondeley, 279 note⁴;
family of, 62 note¹

Churchill, Lord Randolph, saying of, quoted, 16 note³;
at the Treasury, 98;
attack on Bradlaugh, 148;
on the King's speech, 155;
speeches of, 220;
his nightly letter to the Queen, 286 note¹

Cicero, 204, 216

Cinque Ports, the Lord Warden of, 90;
fine inflicted on the, 184

Clandon, 132 note¹

Clarendon, Hyde, Earl of, impeachment, 53, 82;
mentioned, 85;
offices held, 107;
speeches of, 231 note², 277, 278

Clarendon, Lord, 95 note¹

Clarke, Mrs., 67

Clavis Regni, 104

Clergymen, election of, 56

Clerk of the House, his duties, 139-142

Clerk of the Parliaments, 246 and note³

Clifford, Lord, 6

Clifford, Sir Augustus, 154

Clock Tower, the, 188, 231

"Closure" rule, the, 171, 172;
first application, 187, 188

Clothworkers' Company, 132

Cobbett, William, 68, 133, 138, 139, 214, 282-284;
"Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates," 284;
"Weekly Political Register," the, 284

Cobden, sayings quoted, 134, 209

Cochrane, Lord, expelled, 188

Cockburn, "Life of Jeffrey," quoted, 197

Cockpit, the, Whitehall, 84, 154 and note²

Coercion Act, 176

Coke, Sir Edward, 49, 104, 121, 133, 143, 158, 159, 163, 164, 197

Commercial Distress, debate on, 204

Commission, Parliament opened by, 135, 136

Committees, 81;
the Committee of State, 82;
the Committee of Council, 84;
Select Committees, 159 and note¹, 230;
origin of system, 230;
Committees of the whole House, 231;
Committees of Public Petitions, 238

Commons, House of, Journals, 3;
first mention, 3;
political ascendancy, 4;
under Cromwell, 7, 8;
the Royal presence in, 8, 9;
Constitution in 1815 ... , 11;
the Party system established, 14;
the method of "tacking," 30;
doctrines concerning money bills, 30, 31;
relations with the Lords, 31-33;
resolutions for the reform of the House of Lords, 34 and notes, 38;
separated from the Lords, 39, 40;
the Reformed Parliament, 41, 42;
increase in size, 42;
the first Labour Candidates, 42;
life of a modern legislator, 43;
payment of members, 44-47;
advantages of the position, 47-49;
the members' duties, 49-51;
advantages of membership, 52;
qualification for election, 52-54;
disqualifications, 53-57;
exclusion of infants, 53, 54;
peers elected to, 55 note²;
vacating a seat, 58;
establishment in St Stephen's Chapel, 66-67;
the present House, 74;
the mace, 74, 75;
members' comforts, 75-78;
Bellamy's old kitchen, 76-80;
the Kitchen Committee, 78;
Commoners in the Cabinet, 85;
the scene in the House, summer, 1893 ... , 130-31;
the opening of Parliament by Commission, 135-137;
retention of seats, 137-139;
the Clerk of the House, 139, 140;
arrival of Black Rod, 140, 141;
election of the Speaker, 141-143;
called to the Bar of the Lords, 140, 141, 153-155;
second arrival of Black Rod, 143;
taking the Oath, 145-147;
introduction of a new member, 151, 152;
balloting for places at the bar of the Lords, 154 and note¹;
rules of debate, 160-172;
hours of sitting, 228;
summoned to the Lords to hear the Royal Assent, 247;
divisions, 248-251;
the Press Gallery, 284, 285

Commonwealth, Parliament under the, 7, 8

Commune Concilium, the, 2

Compton, Spencer, see Wilmington, Lord

Conferences, 246

"Coningsby," 18

Coningsby, Lord, 23, 24

Consort, Prince, 156

Contempt of Parliament, 176, 177, 183

Copyright Bill, (1839), 169;
(1842), 204

Corn duties, 88

Corn Importation Bill, 29 and note¹

Corn Laws abolition, bill for, 29

Cornwall, Speaker, 129

Cornwallis, Lord, 95 note¹

Corporation Act, 27 note¹, 55

Correction, House of, 180

Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act, 43 note²

Cory, family of, descent, 37

Council of the Chiefs, 2

Councils, early, 81;
Great Council of Peers, 1840 ... , 82

"Counting out," 234, 235

Country Party, the, 13

Court Cullies, 7

Court Party, the, 13

Courtney, of, "Characteristics," quoted, 91 note²

Covenanters, the, 13

Coventry, 60, 190

Cowper, William, afterwards Lord Chancellor, 214, 215

Cranworth, Lord, 26

Crimean War, 209

"Crisis," the, 188

Croker, 250 note¹;
on the relations between the two Houses, 32;
"Papers," quoted, 49 note²

Cromwell, Oliver, the famous "bauble," 7, 74;
his opinion of Scotland, 9 note³;
and corruption, 12;
on the House of Lords, 19;
and the Lords Spiritual, 23;
death warrant of Charles I., 70;
and Parliament, 122

Cromwell, Richard, 236

Crowle, attorney, 178

Crown, power of the 4-6;
curtailed, 8, 9

"Cullies," 7

Cumberland, Duke of, 92

Curia Regis, the, constitution, 20, 81;
separated from Parliament, 22

Curran, a retort of, 209 note²

Curzon, Lord, of Kedleston, 26 note¹

Cust, Sir John, death 1770 ... , 127

Customs, corruption in the, 12


Danby, fall of, 82

Daniel, 27 note¹

Debate, rules of, 158

Deceased Wife's Sister Bill, 251

Delany, Mrs., "Autobiography," 46

Demosthenes, 216, 220

Denison, Speaker, 122 note¹, 128, 129, 134, 141

Deportment, Parliamentary, 189-202

Derby Day, 227

Derby, Lord, 29, 91 note¹, 97, 101 note, 194 note³

Dering, Sir Edward, punishment, 180

Desborough, 59

Devonshire, Duchess of, 270

Devonshire, Duke of, 86 note³, 92

D'Ewes, Sir Symonds, 185, 285;
his note-taking, 276, 277

Diary, Woodfall's, 283, 284

Dickens, cited, 77, 79

Digby, Lord, speech, 277

Dilke, Sir Charles, 196

Dinners, ministerial, 155

Disraeli, use of the term "Tory," 14;
and the Lords, 38, 33;
sayings of, quoted, 43, 59, 74, 94;
premiership, 91, 94;
cabinet, 99;
a pun on, 101 note¹;
Queen's speeches, 155;
unparliamentary language, 164;
and O'Connell, 195, 196;
and lawyers, 210;
speeches, 212, 213, 220;
description of Peel, 1846 ... , 253 note²;
on "whips," 254;
and Biggar, 265

Divisions, in the Commons, 248-51;
in the Lords, 251 note¹, 253

Divorce Bill, the, 169

Donegal, Lady, 51 note¹

Doorkeepers, remuneration of, 261

Dorchester, Lord, 192

Downing, Sir George, 87

Downing Street, 87

Dress, Parliamentary, 189-202

Drury Lane, 186

Drybutter, 69

Dryden, "Shadwell," 128;
quoted, 227

Dublin University, 17 note¹

Duelling, Parliamentary, 200, 201

Dundas, see Melville, Lord

Dunning, 9

Dunraven, Lord, bill for reforming the House of Lords, 36

Durham, Bishop of, 174

Durham, enfranchisement of, 39 and note¹


Earldormen, 2

Earl Marshal, duties, 151

Edgeworth, Maria, "Life and Letters," quoted, 271, 272

Edinburgh, 191

"Edinburgh Review," 115

Education Bill of 1902 ... , 172

Edward I., reign of, 4, 27, 64, 66;
and the Earl de Warrene, 21;
Chancellors, 107;
Parliaments, 252, 268 note²

Edward II., 27, 60

Edward III., reign of, 3, 39, 57, 64, 120 note¹, 156;
Parliaments of, 44, 268 note²;
restoration of St. Stephen's, 66

Edward VI., 3;
enfranchisement of rotten boroughs, 40

Edward VII., (Prince of Wales) 227;
incident in the Stranger's gallery, 264, 265;
lying-in-state, 63

Edward the Confessor, 60

Eldon, Lord, Chancellor, 104 note¹, 155, 198;
on Thurlow, 111;
character of, 113-15;
his "Anecdote Book," 114 note²;
salary, 117;
letter to Dr. Fisher, 117 note²;
decisions of, 183

Eleanor, Queen, 105 and note¹

Elections, cost of, 43 and note²

Elibank, Lord, 178

Eliot, Sir John, 7, 75, 189

Elizabeth, Queen, Parliaments, 22, 53, 81, 82, 190, 236, 249;
reign of, 23 note¹, 25, 62 note¹;
creation of rotten boroughs, 40;
and Holland, 70;
Chancellors of, 105-6;
visit to Westminster, 144;
Speakers, 145;
the sergeant-at-arms, 181 note²;
monopolies, 197;
Parliamentary Committees, 230;
bills quashed, 248

Ellenborough, Lord, 85;
sayings of, quoted, 103 note²

Ellesmere, Lord, on the office of the Lord Chancellor, quoted, 103 note¹

Elsyng, 3 note², 139 and note³;
"Parliaments of England," quoted, 142

Ely, Abbot, of, 104

Emerson, quoted, 17

English Railway Committee, 230, 231

Epsom, 227

Equity, Court of, 107

Erle, Sir Walter, 180 and note²

Erskine, James, see Grange, Lord

"Espying Strangers," 264, 265, 283

Essex, Earl of, 6;
trial, 63

Ethelred, Chancellors of, 104

Evans, Colonel, 250

Evans, Sir George de Lacy, 139 and note¹

"Examiner," the, 278

Exchange, the, 175

Exchequer Court, 147

Exclusion Bill, 1679 ... , 13

Executive, the, 81


Falkland, Lord, saying of, quoted, 53

Farnham, Lord, 24 note²

Fawkes, Guy, 135, 136

Fazakerley, 97

Female Suffrage, 265

Fenian scares, 1885 ... , 263

Ferguson of Pitfour, 50

Ferrars, arrest of, 174

Finance Bill of 1909 ... , 172, 207

Finch, Lord, speech of, 213, 214

Finch, Speaker, 122, 197

Fines, Parliamentary, 183-185

Fire of London, 62

"First Commoner," 132

First Statute of Westminster, 2

Fisher, Dr., of the Charter House, 117 note²

Fitzwilliam, Lord, 85

Fleet, the, 174

Flood, corruption by, 10;
on Pitt, 217

Floyd, punishment of, 179

Foreign Office, 87, 240

Forster, quoted, 91

Foster, John Leslie, Sheil's essay on, 78-80

Fox, Charles James, Burke's quarrel with, 16, 17;
Lord North's dismissal, 97;
saying of, quoted, 113;
the Peace of Paris, 193;
scene in the House, 197, 198;
duel, 200-201;
eloquence, 206;
his speeches, 216, 217, 223, 224;
mentioned, 43, 49, 54, 76, 187 note¹

Fox, Sir Stephen, 7 note¹

"Franking," the privilege of, 46, 47

French Fleet, visit to London, 64

French Revolution, the, 33 note¹

Fuller, 194;
insults the Chair, 233


Gardiner, Dr., "History," cited, 4

Gardiner, Sir Alan, 211

Garibaldi, 239 note¹

Garter-King-at-Arms, duties, 151

Garter, Order of the, 136

Gascony, 117

Gatton, rotten borough of, 10, 268

Gemot of Wessex,