Machine derived contents note: Preface -- 1. The shift in political thought -- 2. The keeper of the kingdom -- 3. The new age of political definition -- 4. That 'Poisonous Tenet' of co-ordination -- 5. The curious case of William Prynne -- 6. The idiom of restoration politics -- 7. Co-ordination and coevality in exclusion literature -- 8. The law-makers and the dispensing power -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index