Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Note on the text
- 1 Introduction
- PART 1 FROM ABOLITION TO RESTORATION
- PART 2 MEMBERS AND THE BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE
- PART 3 KING, LORDS AND COMMONS
- PART 4 RELIGION
- PART 5 POLITICS
- Appendix 1 Temporal members of the House of Lords
- Appendix 2 The bishops, 1661–1681
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Note on the text
- 1 Introduction
- PART 1 FROM ABOLITION TO RESTORATION
- PART 2 MEMBERS AND THE BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE
- PART 3 KING, LORDS AND COMMONS
- PART 4 RELIGION
- PART 5 POLITICS
- Appendix 1 Temporal members of the House of Lords
- Appendix 2 The bishops, 1661–1681
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
Summary
For many years historians of Tudor and Stuart parliaments have neglected the House of Lords, concentrating on the House of Commons. Only recently have scholars begun both to recognise and to study parliament as a trinity consisting of king, Lords and Commons. For the early Tudor period Lehmberg's two books on Henry VIII's parliaments emphasise the interaction between the Lords and the Commons. Michael Graves and Jennifer Loach have demonstrated the significance of the House of Lords in the government of mid-Tudor England, whilst G. R. Elton has emphasised its business functions during the reign of Elizabeth I. For the early Stuart period most of the work on the Lords remains unpublished. One notable exception is Elizabeth Read Foster's institutional study covering the years 1603 to 1649.
The later Stuart period is even more neglected. Most of what has been written on the parliaments of Charles II's reign has focused on the relations between king and Commons. A recent attempt to minimise the assertiveness of the Commons has done so without reference to the Lords. The standard work on the upper House is still A. S. Turberville's two-part narrative essay published in 1929/30, which made little use of manuscript sources, and no use of the documents in the House of Lords Record Office. Both C. H. Firth and M. Schoenfeld have written on the actual restoration of the House in 1660, while E. S. De Beer has produced an interesting though brief sketch of the Lords in 1680.
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- The House of Lords in the Reign of Charles II , pp. 1 - 6Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996