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1 online resource (386 pages) |
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List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; PART I: PRIVATE PETITIONS IN PARLIAMENT; 2. The Emergence of Private Petitions; 2.1 Beginnings; 2.2 Motives; 3. 'High Noon'-Private Petitions, c.1290-c.1330; 3.1 The Growth of Petitioning and the Growth of Bureaucracy; 3.2 Patterns of Petitioning, 1297-1325; 3.3 Responding to the Petitions; 4. Decline and Consolidation: Private Petitions in the Reign of Edward III; 4.1 The Triers; 4.2 The Crown and Private Petitioning, 1327-1377; 4.3 Contraction in the Fourteenth Century; 5. 'Common' Petitions in the Fourteenth Century |
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5.1 Phase One: The Antecedents-'Community Petitions'5.2 Phase Two: The Commons' Petitions; 5.3 Phase Three: Enrolled Common Petitions; 6. Private Petitions in the Fifteenth Century; 6.1 Enrolled Private Petitions; 6.2 Private Petitions Addressed to the Commons; 6.3 Common Petitions in the Fifteenth Century; PART II: PRIVATE PETITIONS AND PRIVATE PETITIONERS; 7. Individual Petitioners; 7.1 Preliminary Considerations; 7.2 The Identity of Petitioners; 7.3 The Content of the Petitions; 7.4 The King's Grace; 8. Petitions from Communities; 8.1 Petitions from the Clergy |
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8.2 Petitions from County Communities8.3 Petitions from Towns; 9. Writing and Presenting Private Petitions; 9.1 Structure and Formulae; 9.2 Language and Rhetoric; 9.3 Writing and Presentation; Conclusion; Appendix 1. Rolls and Files; Appendix 2. The Evolution of the Petitionary Form; Bibliography; Index of Personal and Place Names cited in Petitions; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y |
| Summary |
Focussing on the key role of the English medieval parliament in hearing and determining the requests of the king's subjects, this ground-breaking new study examines the private petition and its place in the late medieval English parliament (c.1270-1450). Until now, historians have focussed on the political and financial significance of the English medieval parliament; this book offers an important re-evaluation placing the emphasis on parliament as a crucial element in the provision of royal government and justice. It looks at the nature of medieval petitioning, how requests were written and how and why petitioners sought redress specifically in parliament. It also sheds new light on the concept of royal grace and its practical application to parliamentary petitions that required the king's personal intervention. The book traces the development of private petitioning over a period of almost two hundred years, from a point when parliament was essentially an instrument of royal administration, to one where it was self-consciously dispatching petitions as the highest court of the land |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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England. Parliament -- History -- To 1500
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England. Parliament -- Private bills -- History -- To 1500
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| SUBJECT |
England. Parliament fast |
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Petition, Right of -- England -- History -- To 1500
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Bills, Private
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Petition, Right of
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England
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1281145289 |
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9781281145284 |
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9780199202805 |
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019920280X |
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