1st Edition

The Manor and the Borough

By Beatrice Webb Copyright 1963
418 Pages
by Routledge

418 Pages
by Routledge

418 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1963, this book examines the English Local Government, and more specifically, the Manor and the Parish, considering the various exemptions, immunities and franchises which enabled the inhabitants of particular localities to exclude the authority of the county at large, or that of one or other of its officers, and thereby enjoy, within their own favoured areas, some peculiar... Read more
1. The Lord's Court.  2. The Court in Ruins.  3. The Manorial Borough.  4. The City and Borough of Westminster.  5. The Borough of Wales.  6. The Municipal Corporation.  7. Municipal Disintegration.

Biography

Beatrice Webb