. The royal families of England, Scotland, and Wales : with their descendants, sovereigns and subjects . 3Jo[)n, sucnamet) ^anstcrce, or N consequence of the death of Richard with-out legitimate issue, his nephew Arthur, theson of Geoffrey, was the next heir to thethrone, according to the present notions ofhnear succession. But in those days some-thing of the spirit of an elective monarchy pre-vailed in England, while the kings themselves assumed the rightof hequeathing the crown by w^ill, as if it had been theirs to giveor to withhold. Thus Richard, w^ho had gradually become reco
. The royal families of England, Scotland, and Wales : with their descendants, sovereigns and subjects . 3Jo[)n, sucnamet) ^anstcrce, or N consequence of the death of Richard with-out legitimate issue, his nephew Arthur, theson of Geoffrey, was the next heir to thethrone, according to the present notions ofhnear succession. But in those days some-thing of the spirit of an elective monarchy pre-vailed in England, while the kings themselves assumed the rightof hequeathing the crown by w^ill, as if it had been theirs to giveor to withhold. Thus Richard, w^ho had gradually become recon-ciled to his brother John, on liis death-bed declared him his suc-cessor, and required all present to do him homage, at the sametime bequeathing him his treasures. His subjects however seem tohave thought that they had the right of choosing their own mas-ter, and while some were ready to receive John for a monarch,others preferred the claims of Arthur, nor was it till after muchdiscussion in a great council held at Northampton, that theparty of John prevailed. The exclusion of Arthur was chieflyjustified on the elective rights of the people,
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