Note 741 — Chapter I · THE AGRARIAN PROBLEM AND THE STATE (continued 2)

I make this statement on the authority of Dr. Slater, Sociological Review, vol. iv., No. 4, p. 349, but I have been unable to trace his evidence. The only reference I can find bearing on the subject is contained in Article XIII. of the heads of the accusation against Lord Clarendon: “That he hath in an arbitrary way examined and drawn into question divers of his Majesty’s subjects concerning their lands, tenements, goods, chattells, and properties, determined thereof at the Council Table, and stopped proceedings at law by the order of the Council Table, and threatened some that pleaded the Statute of 17 Car. I." (The proceedings in the House of Commons touching the impeachment of Edward, late Earl of Clarendon, 1700.)