IN

HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

HERBERT B. ADAMS, Editor

History is past Politics and Politics present History.-Freeman

VOLUME I

LOCAL INSTITUTIONS

PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

N. MURRAY, PUBLICATION AGENT

BALTIMORE

1883

THE FRIEDENWALD COMPANY, PRINTERS,

BALTIMORE.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

I. An Introduction to American Institutional History. By Edward

A. Freeman, D. C. L., LL. D. With an Account of Mr. Free-

man's Visit to Baltimore. By the Editor.

II. The Germanic Origin of New England Towns. With Notes on

Co-operation in University Work. By Herbert B. Adams,

Ph. D., Associate Professor of History, Johns Hopkins Uni-

versity.

III. Local Government in Illinois. By Albert Shaw, A. B. Local

Government in Pennsylvania. By E. R. L. Gould, A. B., Fellow

in History, Johns Hopkins University.

IV. Saxon Tithingmen in America. By Herbert B. Adams.

V. Local Government in Michigan and the Northwest. By Edward
W. Bemis, A. B., Scholar in History, Johns Hopkins University.

VI. Parish Institutions of Maryland. With Illustrations from Parish

Records. By Edward Ingle, A. B.

VII. Old Maryland Manors. With the Records of a Court Leet and a

Court Baron. By John Johnson, A. B.

VIII. Norman Constables in America. By Herbert B. Adams.

IX-X. Village Communities of Cape Anne and Salem. By Herbert B.

Adams.

XI. The Genesis of a New England State. By Alexander Johnston,

Professor of Political Economy-and Jurisprudence, Princeton

College.

XII. Local Government and Free Schools in South Carolina. By B. J.

Ramage, A. B., Scholar in History, Johns Hopkins University.