Excerpt from English Local Government From the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations Act, Vol. 1: The Manor and the Borough The proportion of the Local Government of England that was, in 1689, carried ou, whether by prescription, by Charter, or by statute, in the form of exemptions from or exclusions of County jurisdiction, was far larger than is commonly supposed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.