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1 online resource (767 p.) |
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History of Parliament Ser |
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History of Parliament Ser
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| Contents |
Front cover -- Foreword by the Chair of the History of Parliament Trust -- Foreword by the Chair of the Editorial Board of the History of Parliament -- Contents -- Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTORY SURVEY -- I: Method and Sources -- Method -- Sources -- II: Narrative of Events -- The Parliament of April 1640 (The Short Parliament) -- The Parliament of November 1640 up to December 1648 (The Long Parliament) -- The Parliament of 1640: from December 1648 to April 1653 (The Rump) -- The Parliament of July 1653 (The Nominated Assembly) |
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The Parliament of September 1654 (The first protectorate Parliament) -- The Parliament of September 1656 (the second protectorate Parliament) -- The Parliament of January 1659 (The third protectorate Parliament or Richard Cromwell's Parliament) -- The restored Parliaments of May 1659 to March 1660 (the restored Rump Parliament and the Long Parliament) -- III: Constituencies and Elections -- Introduction -- Elections for the Short Parliament, April 1640 -- Elections for the Long Parliament, November 1640 -- Enfranchisement and by-elections, 1640-2 -- Recruiter elections, 1645-9 |
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Choosing the Nominated Assembly, 1653 -- Electoral changes under the protectorate, 1653-9 -- English elections, 1654-9 -- Scottish, Irish and Welsh elections, 1654-9 -- IV: The Members -- Family background and social status -- Age -- Education -- Occupation -- Estates and wealth -- Religion -- Motivation -- Previous parliamentary experience -- Corruption -- V: The Organization of the House -- Membership -- Attendance -- Space -- Time -- The Speaker -- The clerks -- Divisions -- Parliamentary printing -- VI: Committees of the House of Commons -- Introduction -- Select committees |
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Conference and joint committees -- Committees of the whole House -- Standing committees of the whole House -- VII: Parliamentary Government: Executive Committees -- Emergence and development -- Committees of state -- Managing Parliament's armies -- Naval, maritime and commercial Affairs -- Managing the war in Ireland -- Managing Parliament's revenue -- Religion -- Security, probity and indemnity -- Centre and locality -- Faction and policy -- VIII: The Scope, Authority and Jurisdiction of the House of Commons -- The authority and claims of the Commons, 1640-9 |
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The authority of the House, 1649-60 -- The jurisdiction of the Commons, 1640-53 -- Parliamentary instruments of executive authority, 1642-9 -- The place of Parliament after the Rump, 1653-60 -- IX: The Business of the House -- Legislation -- A case study of legislative reform: the legal system, 1640-60 -- Petitions -- Relations beyond the Commons -- Regulation of membership -- Conclusion -- X: Politics and Party in the House of Commons -- 'Formed divisions': politics and party, 1640-8 -- Managing Parliament, 1640-60 -- The Junto, 1640-2 -- War and peace parties, 1642-4 |
| Summary |
This is Volume I: INTRODUCTORY SURVEY AND APPENDICES of the most comprehensive and complete study ever compiled about the turbulent period of the English and British Civil Wars and their aftermath |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Presbyterians and Independents, 1644-5 |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781800109605 |
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1800109601 |
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