Editing Quo warranto (section)

== Later developments ==
The most famous historical instance of {{lang|la|quo warranto}} was the action taken against the [[Corporation of London]] by [[Charles II of England|Charles II]] in 1683.<ref>{{citation|title=Informations (criminal and quo warranto) mandamus and prohibition|series=American law series|first=John|last=Shortt|publisher=C. H. Edson and company|year=1888 |page=137|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iPE_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA137}}.</ref> The [[Court of King's Bench (England)|King's Bench]] adjudged the charter and franchises of the City of London to be forfeited to the Crown, though this judgment was reversed by the [[London, Quo Warranto Judgment Reversed Act 1689]] shortly after the [[Glorious Revolution]].

But the remodelling of the City of London was only part of a wider remodelling of some forty chartered parliamentary boroughs by the Crown<ref>J. H. Plumb, ''The Growth of Political Stability in England'' (London 1986) pp. 55-6.</ref> – a policy taken up again in 1688 by [[James II of England|James II]], when some thirty-five new charters were issued after quo warranto produced the surrender of the old ones.<ref>M. Ashley, ''The Glorious Revolution'' (London, 1966), p. 112.</ref> This Quo Warranto remodelling or 'dissolution' of the parliamentary corporations gave point to the claim by [[William III of England|William III]] that "our expedition is intended for no other design but to have a free and lawful parliament assembled", and underpinned the charge in the [[Bill of Rights 1689|Bill of Rights]] that James had been "violating the freedom of election by members to serve in parliament".<ref>M. Ashley, ''The Glorious Revolution'' (London, 1966) pp. 205–207.</ref>