. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . s be cdiiipelleil to kiKiwa godd deal abont some of thestatutes of Ivlward 1. Tlie\- will .seldom have occasion to knowan\-thing of any laws that were enacted during the fourteenthor the first three-quarters of the fifteenth century. Parliamentseems to have abandoned the idea of controlling the develoj)-nient of the common law. Occasionally and spasuiodically it?would interfere, devise some n(>w remedy,
. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . s be cdiiipelleil to kiKiwa godd deal abont some of thestatutes of Ivlward 1. Tlie\- will .seldom have occasion to knowan\-thing of any laws that were enacted during the fourteenthor the first three-quarters of the fifteenth century. Parliamentseems to have abandoned the idea of controlling the develoj)-nient of the common law. Occasionally and spasuiodically it?would interfere, devise some n(>w remedy, fill a ,gap in theregister of writs, or circumvent the circinnventors of a statute EXGLISH LAW. 1307-Um. (547 But in general it left the ordinary law of tlie land to the judges;ind the lawyers. In its eyes the oonunou law was complete, orvery nearly complete. And then as wo read the statute-roll of the fifteenth century Decay ofwe seem for a while to be watching the decline and fall of a p^^^^^ •mighty institution. Parliament seems to have nothing betterti> do than to regulate the manufacture of cloth. >iow andihen it strives to cope with the growing evils of the time, the. TUK GAME 111 KAYLES (MS. Kuy. :> B. vii.). renascent feudalism, the private wars of great and small; butwithout looking outside our roll we can see that effortsare half-hearted and ineffectual. We are expected to show aprofomid interest in the making of worsteds, while we gatherfrom a few casual liints that the Wars of the Roses are for a moment the Parliament of Edward IV. can raise its soulabove defective barrels of tish and fraudulent shutter tiles, thiswill be in order to prohibit , kayles, half-bowl, hand-in-hand and hand-out, quekeboard, and such other games asinterfere \vith the practice of archery. In the end it was better that Pai-liament should foi a whileregister the acts of a desjiot than that it should sink into thecontempt that seemed to be prepared for it.
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