J.P.Sommerville

 

IV: 1500-1600: PARLIAMENT

Q: 'The idea of a "growth of opposition" in the Tudor Parliaments is grossly misconceived'. Discuss.

 

Overviews

  1. JS Roskell 'Perspectives in English Parliamentary History' in E Fryde and E Miller, ed, Historical studies of the English Parliament, vol II
  2. GL Harris 'Medieval doctrines in the debate on supply, 1610-1629' in K Sharpe, ed, Faction and Parliament -- and cf Fortescue (above II.2).
  3. J Gillingham 'Parliament, taxation and the defence of the realm' in Falkus and Gillingham, Historical Atlas of Great Britain

 

Examples of pre-Tudor parliamentary vigor

  1. BP Wolffe 'Acts of resumption in the Lancastrian parliaments' in Fryde and Miller, Historical studies of the English Parliament
  2. RL Storey 'Liveries and commissions of the peace, 1388-90' in FRH Du Boulay and Caroline Barron, ed, The reign of Richard II

 

The Tudor parliament: generally

  1. GR Elton 'Tudor government: the points of contact I: Parliament' Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 24 (1974)
  2. MAR Graves, The Tudor Parliaments
  3.  MAR Graves, Elizabethan Parliaments
  4. JE Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons

 

Tudor Parliaments: narrative and analysis

  1. GR Elton 'The Rolls of Parliament, 1449-1547' Historical Journal 22 (1979)
  2.  JA Guy, The public career of Sir Thomas More
  3. SE Lehmberg, The Reformation parliament, 1529-36
  4. SE Lehmberg, The later parliaments of Henry VIII
  5. GR Elton, Reform and renewal, esp chapters 4-6
  6. GR Elton, The Parliament of England 1559-1581
  7.  MAR Graves, The House of Lords in the parliaments of Edward VI and Mary I
  8. JE Neale, Elizabeth and her parliaments 2 vols
  9. W Notestein 'The winning of the initiative by the house of commons' Proceedings of the British Academy 11 (1924)

 

Critiques

  1. David Starkey 'History without politics' Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 28 (1977)
  2. Jennifer Loach 'Conservatism and consent in parliament, 1547-1559' in J Loach and R Tittler, eds, The mid-Tudor polity
  3.  GR Elton 'Parliament in the sixteenth century: functions and fortunes' Historical Journal 22 (1979)
  4. MAR Graves 'Thomas Norton the parliament man: an Elizabethan MP 1559-1581' Historical Journal 23 (1980)

and see also

  1. CSR Russell 'Parliamentary history in perspective, 1604-29' History 61 (1976)
  2. NL Jones 'Parliament and governance of Elizabethan England: a review', Albion 19 (1987), 327-46
  3. J Loach, Parliaments under the Tudors
  4. D Dean, Law-making and society in late-Elizabethan England: the parliament of England 1584-1601
  5. Allen D. Boyer, Sir Edward Coke and the Elizabethan Age. Stanford University Press, 2003

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