A neat summary of the state to which these ideas had developed by 1583 can be found in Sir Thomas Smith's De republica Anglorum, of that year. Smith's work is also one of the earliest know application of the English word "represent" to parliament. Smith uses the word only once, but in a crucial position, writing of "the Parliament of Englande, which representeth and hath the power of the whole realme, both the head and the bodie. For everie Englishman is entended to be there present, either in person or by procuration and attornies...And the consent of the Parliament is taken to be everie man's consent"(Smith 1906: 49).