HISTORY OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE.-PART I.

The Board of Examiners.

PASS AND FIRST HONOUR PAPER.

Answer fully and clearly NINE, and only nine, of the following questions.

1. What questions were disputed at the Ecclesiastical Synod held at Whitby, 664 A.D.? Who were the disputants? What was the result, and why is the result important?

2. Compare Dunstan, Anselm, and Becket as political ecclesiastics.

3. What is meant by the Feudal System? What were the feudal incidents? When and why were they abolished?

4. Trace some of the social and political results of the settlement of the Jews in England during the reign of William the Conqueror.

5. Trace some of the results of the revival of classical studies in England during the twelfth century.

6. What is the essential difference in the origin of the two branches of the House of Commons ?

7. Comment on the description of Warwick the King Maker as "the Last of the Barons."

8. Trace the origin and objects of the Court of High Commission, and explain why and when it was abolished.

9. What new principles were introduced into legislation respecting the Poor in the reign of Queen Elizabeth?

10. How do you explain the growth of the high prerogative doctrines maintained by the Stuart sovereigns?

11. What is the last Statute restraining arbitrary taxation on the part of the Crown? In what year and under what circumstances was it passed?

12. What do you conceive to be the historical importance of Milton's Paradise Lost?

13. What was the policy of Cromwell towards Scotland after he became Protector, and what were

its effects?

14. Write an account of the career of Anthony Ashley Cooper.

HISTORY OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE.-PART II. The Board of Examiners.

Answer fully and clearly NINE, and only nine, of the following questions.

1. Give a brief summary of the relations between England and Ireland during the period of the Plantagenet dynasty.

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2. Write an account of the Scottish Lords of the Articles.

3. Give briefly the substance of the provisions of the Irish Act of Settlement promulgated at the Restoration. Why was legislation on the subject necessary?

4. Explain the provisions of the Toleration Act of William and Mary, and shew how far those provisions went towards granting religious freedom.

5. What evils was the Place Bill designed to cure? Why did William veto it? Sketch the later legislation on the subject.

6. Give some account of the proceedings upon the attainder of Sir John Fenwick, and of the causes thereof.

7. How long did Walpole's Administration last? By whom was the opposition led? What was the character of the opposition? How far was it successful?

8. From what event, and for what reasons, does Lord Macaulay date the purity of the administration of our Eastern Empire?

9. State what you know of the public life of Edmund Burke, and of the opinions which he held with regard to (a) the personal rule of the King, (b) the American colonies, (c) the French Revolution.

10. Sketch the career of Lord Cornwallis (a) in America, (b) in India, (c) in Ireland.

11. Give some account of the proceedings by which the India Bill of 1783 was defeated, and of the consequences of that defeat.

12. What change in the law was effected by Mr. Fox's Libel Act? What important change was made afterwards, and when?

13. Who were the principal members of the Ministry of All the Talents? With what matters of importance did that Ministry deal? year and for what reasons did it resign?

In what

POLITICAL ECONOMY.

The Board of Examiners.

Answer fully and clearly TEN, and only ten, of the following questions.

1. Explain carefully the use of the term "Law" in economic science, and shew how economic laws may be arrived at.

2. What are the chief advantages of co-operation? Mention some of the conditions on which successful co-operation depends.

3. Distinguish carefully Rent, Interest, Profit. How do you account for the fact that different rates of interest may prevail (a) in the same market, (b) in different markets?

4. What conditions must be satisfied in order that an article may be exchangeable?

5. What are the chief causes which produce localization of industry?

6. Compare the advantages and the disadvantages of the entrepreneur system, and explain the causes of its great development during the last fifty years.

7. State the arguments for and against "profitsharing," and give your own views as to its expediency.

8. State and examine the arguments for and against the proposal that retaliatory duties should be imposed in England on goods sent thither from countries that levy protective duties on English productions.

9. Explain these propositions

(a) Paper money is money on which the seignorage is 100 per cent.

(b) Profits tend to a minimum.

10. Discuss the meaning of the word "free" in each of these phrases-free banking, free education, free labour, free land, free trade, free will.

11. What is the test of the propriety of State interference? Why is it that matters which in one country are proper subjects for governmental control are not so in others?