The franklin, with white beard and red face, has been lord of the sessions and knight of the shire.

The merchant, with forked beard and Flaundrish beaver hat, discourses learnedly of taxes and ship-money, and was doubtless drawn from an existing original, the type of a class.

Several of the personages belong to the guilds which were so famous in London, and Were alle yclothed in o livere Of a solempne and grete fraternite.
GOVERNMENT .-- Closely connected with this social progress, was the progress in constitutional government, the fruit of the charters of John and Henry III.

After the assassination of Edward II.

by his queen and her paramour, there opened upon England a new historic era, when the bold and energetic Edward III.