CHAPTER III

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Henry III--Reissues of the Charter--Assessment of a carucage by the Council--Conditional Grants--Rejected offer of a disbursing commission--Supervision of expenditures--Representation as it was in Henry’s National Council--Knights of the shire called, 1254--Provisions of Oxford--Knights of the shire summoned by Henry and Simon de Montfort to national assemblies--In Parliament, 1264--Simon de Montfort’s Great Parliament, 1265--First instance of burgher representation--House of Commons foreshadowed.