Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1908 — Women as Lawmakers. [ARTICLE]

Women as Lawmakers.

Women not only have had the vote, but have actually sat in England: lawmaking bodies. Abbesses, in virtue of their position as wete.iit - Uygone days, entitled to a seat and•oice in the national council. The. turned up in big force at the council of 694, when the question of nunneries was in delate, and several of then: subscribed to the decrees made on that occasion. Again they sat in a national parley held in 855. And once again iu tne great council of Henry (11. and Edward I. when the abbesses of Shattsburg. Barking, Winchester and Wilton were in attendance, each with her retinue of lay folk.