POLITICAL HISTORY 



Beaujolais. Orleans returned after Napoleon's escape from Elba, and 

 stayed until he was called to take the throne of France as Louis Philippe. 431 

 His house was sold to the earl of Kilmorey, who sold it again to the 

 exiled king in 1852 for the use of the latter's son, the due d'Aumale. 

 From that time until 1871 Orleans House was the centre of the French 

 loyalists. The comte de Paris lived at York House near by, the prince 

 of Joinville at Mount Lebanon ; the due de Nemours lived at Bushey 

 Park. 



The introduction of railways has converted so large a portion of 

 Middlesex into metropolitan suburb that the history of the latter half 

 of the nineteenth century is somewhat barren except from a social and 

 economic point of view. The Local Government Act of 1888 marked 

 a new era in the county's history.* 52 The Act made two great changes. 433 

 In the first place, a new county of London was formed, which in- 

 cludes a large district formerly belonging to Middlesex. London now 

 stretches to the River Lea on the east, and northwards to include Stoke 

 Newington, Upper Holloway, and Hampstead, and westward beyond 

 Hammersmith. Any future alteration in the boundaries will naturally 

 be at the expense of Middlesex. 434 



The second change made by the Local Government Act was in the 

 appointment of the sheriff. The right to appoint the sheriff still 

 remained in the hands of the citizens of London, but by the Act the 

 right was transferred to the hands of the crown, as in the case of other 

 counties. The sheriffs of London ceased to have any jurisdiction in 

 Middlesex on the day when the first sheriff of Middlesex entered into 

 office. 436 



The parliamentary history of Middlesex dates from 1282, when the 

 counties south of the Trent were summoned to send representatives to 

 Northampton. 436 Middlesex also sent representatives to the assemblies 

 of 1283 and I290. 437 In 1295 William de Brook and Stephen de 

 Gravesend were chosen for the county. 438 Richard le Rous sat for 

 Middlesex in every Parliament during the remainder of the reign of 

 Edward I, his fellow-representative being on most occasions Richard de 

 Windsor. The names le Rous, de Windsor, de Enefield (or de Enefeud), 

 and de Badyk occur frequently during the fourteenth century. In 1324 

 the representatives are described as two of the best and most discreet, 

 but are not designated as knights. 4383 John de Wrotham sat for 

 Middlesex in many of the Parliaments of Edward III. There 

 were few occasions under the Tudors when one of the Wroths, his 

 descendants, did not represent the county. Sir Robert Wroth sat in the 

 Reformation Parliament. His son, Sir Thomas, was first returned in 

 1 544, and with the exception of the Parliaments of the reign of Mary, he 

 represented Middlesex practically without intermission till his death 



" Michaud, Public and Private Life of Louis Philippe, 271. 

 " Pub. Gen. Stat. xxv, cap. 262. m Clause 40 (2). 



14 The county of London and the county of Middlesex are considered as one county for the 

 purpose of all legal proceedings, civil or criminal ; clause 89 (3). *" Clause 1 13 (2). 



" Palgrave, Par/. Writs (Rec. Com.), i, 10. "' Ibid. 16, 21. M Ibid. 39. 43te Ibid, ii, 321. 



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