AN ESSAY

ON

THE HISTORY

OF THE

ENGLISH GOVERNMENT

AND

CONSTITUTION,

FROM THE REIGN OF HENRY VII.

TO THE PRESENT TIME.

By LORD JOHN RUSSELL.

Qualis frugifero quercus sublimis in agro,
Exuvias veteres populi, sacrataque gestans
Dona ducum; nec jam validis radicibus hærens,
Pondere fixa suo est :
At quamvis primo nutet casura sub Euro
Tot circum silvæ firmo se robore tollant,
Sola tamen colitur.

LUCAN.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR

LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.