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The County Palatine of Durham (Volume 8); A Study in Constitutional History: (English)

The County Palatine of Durham (Volume 8); A Study in Constitutional History: (English)

          
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 3. Origin of the County Palatine of Durham. The origin of the county palatine of Durham is a matter of extreme obscurity, and by reason of the lack of evidence one that will probably never be settled. Three views on this question have prevailed: two of them ascribe the erection of the county palatine to the deliberate act of some king of England, either Alfred or William the Conqueror, while the third regards it as a growth, not complete until the thirteenth century, although based on a survival of local independence in the ancient kingdom of Northumbria. These theories will be stated in order and in a somewhat summary fashion, and various reasons for rejecting them will be offered. The theory advocated in the present discussion will be found to be, to a certain degree, an amplification of the last of these three views. The oldest and the most generally accepted doctrine is that William the Conqueror, as a matter of policy, deliberately created two strong local authorities, in the persons of the earl of Chester and the Bishop of Durham, to act as buffers against the invasions of the unconquered Welsh and Scots. They were invested with an unusual measure of independence, in order that their hands might be free to perform the duty for which they had been set on the marches. They were compared to the margraves of Charles the Great, who were for the same reason very largely exempted from central control.1 This view has all the advantage of extreme simplicity and convenience, and it found unquestioned acceptance until the middle of the present century. For a final judgment of it we should turn naturally to Dr. Stubbs, but it is impossible to tell how he stands on this point.2 Historically, indeed, the theory is worthless. There is not a vestige of evidence to show that William m...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780217075930
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 154
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 286 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0217075932
  • Publisher Date: 14 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Width: 189 mm

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