People and Parliament
Representative Rights and the English Revolution
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Epilogue: “A Parliamentary Man”
This volume has made a long journey, geographically, socially and politically — from the almshouse people of Totnes, and the “simple handicrafts men” of Minehead, to the parliamentary aristocracy of Sherwood, ...
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Legislative Beginnings: 1603–1610
The develo** concept of sovereign representative legislation in the sixteenth century. The particular interests of the localities. The peak of legislative activity, 1603–1610. Interruptions: the administrati...
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The Foreign Policy Dimension
The broad scope of the public interest. Foreign affairs and the West Country economy. The mercantile perspective again. The question of choice in war and taxation. Nottinghamshire and the evaluation of parliam...
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The Vacuum Filled: The Triennial Act of 1641
A new constitutional balance. The benefits of guaranteed assemblies: the core proposition of parliamentarianism. The significance of parliamentary law as “that which makes and constitutes a kingdom”: the pract...
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Statute Law and Civil War: “A Right That Induced Men to Fight”
The sovereignty of parliamentary law. The “unlimited power” that derived from elective consent. The right not to be concluded but by the representative. The rationale of Nottinghamshire’s leading parliamentari...
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Introduction: Pasts and Presents
The danger of jettisoning the past. Inapplicable modes of thought. The divorce from context. Historians and the devaluation of the democratic tradition.
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The Constitutional Dimension
The “simple handicrafts men” of Minehead, and their fight for political rights
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Legislative Ambitions Frustrated: 1614–1640
Parliaments without legislation: 1614 and 1621.
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Politics and Religion: The Balance of Motivation
“The Song of the Puritans of Nottingham”. The spirit of initiative among the Godly, and the shared belief in the power of assent.
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The Sovereignty of Parliament
The final step.
