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THE REACTION AGAINST THE RULERS OF THE COUNTY.
THE BREAKDOWN OF THE MIDDLESEX BENCH; THE LACK OF JUSTICES; THE RESTRICTION OF PUBLIC HOUSES; THE JUSTICES' POOR LAW; THE GROWTH OF COUNTY EXPENDITURE; THE SEVERITY OF THE GAME LAWS; THE STOPPING UP OF FOOTPATHS; THE STRIPPING OF THE OLIGARCHY; WHY THE JUSTICES SURVIVED.
LONGMANS. GREEN & CO. LONDON, NEW YORK, BOMBAY, AND CALCUTTA
WORKS BY SIDNEY AND BEATRICE WEBB
Demy 8vo, pp. viii and 858, in 2 volumes . Price 25s. net.
ENGLISH LOCAL GOVERNMENT FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS ACT
In this second instalment of their English Local Government the authors apply their method of combined history and analysis to the fascinating story of the towns and the manorial communities, of which several hundreds find mention, belonging to all the counties of England and Wales. An interesting new account is given, from unpublished materials, of the organisation and development in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries of the Manor and its several Courts, with picturesque glimpses of the hitherto undescribed part played by the Jury in the common-field agriculture. But the Manor is shown to be also the starting-point for a whole series of constitutional developments, passing through grade after grade of Manorial Borough, hitherto undescribed, into the complete Municipal Corporation. This, too, is analysed and described in a way never before attempted, so as to make the strangely interesting life of the towns live before us. A special chapter is devoted to the Boroughs of Wales, in which their national peculiarities are brought out. Their extensive study of the manuscript records enable the authors to set forth the inner working of the "Municipal Democracies" that existed alongside the chartered oligarchies, with their many analogies to modern American cities; and to bring vividly to notice the conditions and limitations of successive Democratic government. There is an interesting sketch of English hierarchies of town government, chief among them being the Cinque Ports, the constitutional position of which is presented in a new light. The anomalous history of the City of Westminster is explored by the light of the unpublished archives of its peculiar municipal organisation. An altogether novel view is presented of the constitutional development of the greatest municipality of all, the Corporation of the City of London, to which no fewer than 124 pages are devoted. The work concludes with a picturesque account of the "Municipal Revolution" of 1835, and the Homeric combat of Brougham and Lyndhurst which ended in the Municipal Reform Act of 1835.
INTRODUCTION.
THE LORD'S COURT--
THE LAWYER'S VIEW OF THE LORD'S COURT. THE COURT BARON. THE COURT LEET.
THE COURT IN RUINS--
THE HIERARCHY OF COURTS. THE COURT OF THE HUNDRED. THE COURT OF THE MANOR: THE BAMBURGH COURTS. THE COURT LEET OF THE SAVOY. THE COURT LEET AND COURT BARON OF MANCHESTER. THE PREVALENCE AND DECAY OF THE LORD'S COURT.
THE MANORIAL BOROUGH--
THE VILLAGE MEETING. THE CHARTERED TOWNSHIP. THE LORDLESS COURT. THE LORD'S BOROUGH. THE ENFRANCHISED MANORIAL BOROUGH. MANOR AND GILD. ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT AND DECAY.
THE CITY AND BOROUGH OF WESTMINSTER--
BURLEIGH'S CONSTITUTION. MUNICIPAL ATROPHY.
THE BOROUGHS OF WALES--
INCIPIENT AUTONOMY. THE WELSH MANORIAL BOROUGH. THE WELSH MUNICIPAL CORPORATION.
THE MUNICIPAL CORPORATION--
THE INSTRUMENT OF INCORPORATION. CORPORATE JURISDICTIONS. CORPORATE OBLIGATIONS. THE AREA OF THE CORPORATION. THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE CORPORATION. THE SERVANTS OF THE CORPORATION. THE CHIEF OFFICERS OF THE CORPORATION. THE HEAD OF THE CORPORATION. THE BAILIFFS. THE HIGH STEWARD AND THE RECORDER. THE CHAMBERLAIN AND THE TOWN CLERK. THE COUNTY OFFICERS OF THE MUNICIPAL CORPORATION. THE MAYOR'S BRETHREN AND THE MAYOR'S COUNSELLORS. THE COURTS OF THE CORPORATION. COURTS OF CIVIL JURISDICTION. THE COURT LEET. THE BOROUGH COURT OF QUARTER SESSIONS. COURTS OF SPECIALISED JURISDICTION. THE ADMINISTRATIVE COURTS OF THE MUNICIPAL CORPORATION. THE MUNICIPAL CONSTITUTIONS OF 1689.
MUNICIPAL DISINTEGRATION--
ADMINISTRATION BY CLOSE CORPORATIONS--
ADMINISTRATION BY MUNICIPAL DEMOCRACIES--
THE CITY OF LONDON--
THE LEGAL CONSTITUTION OF THE CITY. THE SERVICE OF THE CITIZEN TO HIS WARD. THE PRECINCT. THE INQUEST OF THE WARD. THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE WARD. THE DECAY OF WARD GOVERNMENT. THE COURT OF COMMON HALL. THE COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. THE COURT OF ALDERMEN. THE SHRIEVALTY. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORD MAYOR. THE OFFICERS OF THE CORPORATION. A RATEPAYERS' DEMOCRACY.
THE MUNICIPAL REVOLUTION--
TOWARDS THE REVOLUTION. INSTALMENTS OF REFORM. THE ROYAL COMMISSION. AN ALTERNATIVE JUDGMENT. THE WHIG BILL. THE MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS ACT.
INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
INDEX OF PLACES.
LONGMANS, GREEN & CO. LONDON, NEW YORK, BOMBAY, AND CALCUTTA
ENGLISH LOCAL GOVERNMENT
WORKS BY SIDNEY AND BEATRICE WEBB
EDITED, WITH INTRODUCTION, BY SIDNEY AND BEATRICE WEBB
Demy 8vo, xx and 604 pp. 7s. 6d net. Uniform with "English Local Government"
This Minority Report is a new departure in such documents. More than 20,000 copies have already been disposed of, and it is still selling like the last new novel. It is readable and even exciting. It is complete in itself. It presents, in ordered sequence, page by page, a masterly survey of what is actually going on in our workhouses and in the homes of those maintained on Outdoor Relief. It describes in precise detail from carefully authenticated evidence what is happening to the infants, to the children of school age, to the sick, to the mentally defective, to the widows with children struggling on their pittances of Outdoor Relief, to the aged and infirm inside the workhouse and outside. It sets forth the overlapping of the Poor Law with the newer work of the Education and Public Health Authorities, and the consequent waste and confusion. It gives a graphic vision of the working of the whole Poor Law machinery in all parts of the United Kingdom, which is costing us nearly twenty millions sterling per annum.
The volume concludes with a Scheme of Reform, of novel and far-reaching character, which is elaborately worked out in detail, involving the abolition of the workhouse, the complete disappearance of the Poor Law, and the transfer of the care of the children, the sick, the mentally defective, and the aged to the several committees of the Town and County Councils already administering analogous services, in order that we may now, in the twentieth century, set ourselves to prevent destitution, instead of waiting until it occurs.
LONGMANS, GREEN & CO. LONDON, NEW YORK, BOMBAY, AND CALCUTTA
WORKS BY SIDNEY AND BEATRICE WEBB
THE PUBLIC ORGANIZATION OF THE LABOUR MARKET
EDITED, WITH INTRODUCTION, BY SIDNEY AND BEATRICE WEBB
Demy 8vo, xvi and 332 pp. 5s. net. Uniform with "English Local Government"
LONGMANS, GREEN & CO. LONDON, NEW YORK, BOMBAY, AND CALCUTTA
WORKS BY SIDNEY AND BEATRICE WEBB
THE STATE AND THE DOCTOR
Demy 8vo, pp. viii and 276 . Price 6s. net.
In this work a great deal that will be new to the ordinary citizen is brought to light. The authors show that we do a great deal of State Doctoring in England--more than is commonly realised--and that our arrangements have got into a tangle, which urgently needs straightening out. Everywhere there is a duplication of authorities, and more or less overlapping of work. We are spending out of the rates and taxes, in one way or another, directly on sickness and Public Health, a vast sum of money annually--no man knows how much, but it certainly amounts to six or seven millions sterling. Meanwhile, as is now being revealed to us, a vast amount of sickness goes altogether untreated, with the result of grave damage to our population, and unnecessary loss of productive capacity to the community as a whole.
The authors suggest that we put up with this waste, and we allow our statesmen to postpone the task of straightening out the tangle, very largely because we are not aware of the facts. There has hitherto been no popular description of our State Doctoring. Many worthy people, thinking themselves educated, do not even know of its existence. There is not even an official report setting forth exactly what is being done and left undone for sickness and the Public Health in the different parts of the kingdom.
But the authors do not content themselves with a picture of the costly and wasteful muddle that our responsible statesmen allow, session after session, to continue unreformed. The work concludes with a remarkable series of proposals for "straightening out the tangle"--proposals based on the very authoritative evidence received by the Royal Commission on the Poor Law, supported not only by the administrators, but also by a large section of the medical profession, and rapidly commending themselves to the unprejudiced enquirer.
LONGMANS, GREEN & CO. LONDON, NEW YORK, BOMBAY, AND CALCUTTA
WORKS BY SIDNEY AND BEATRICE WEBB
THE HISTORY OF TRADE UNIONISM
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