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Excerpt from The Records of the Northern Convocation It was not, however, till the great English Justinian was on the throne that those arrangements were made which are the true beginning of the two Convocations of England. Edward I brought into the matter a large and vet a legal spirit. He saw the value of the goodwill and consent of his people, and discerned that, rightly directed, they might enable him to carry through his difficult task of organization. In his time we find members of the clergy present in his Parliaments of York and of Northampton. Just after this (jan. 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.