Parliaments politics cromwellian

Patrick Little, David L. Smith0521838673, 9780521838672, 9780511367403

This ground-breaking volume fills a major historiographical gap by providing the firstdetailed book-length study of the period of the Protectorate Parliaments fromSeptember 1654 to April 1659. The study is very broad in its scope, covering topicsas diverse as the British and Irish dimensions of the Protectorate Parliaments, thepolitical and social nature of factions, problems of management, the legal and judicialaspects of Parliament’s functions, foreign policy, and the nature of the parliamentaryfranchise and elections in this period. In its wide-ranging analysis of Parliaments andpolitics throughout the Protectorate, the book also examines both Lord Protectors, allthree Protectorate Parliaments, and the reasons why Oliver and Richard Cromwellwere never able to achieve a stable working relationship with any Parliament. Itschronological coverage extends to the demise of the Third Protectorate Parliament inApril 1659. This comprehensive account will appeal to historians of early modernBritish political history

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Table of contents :
Cover……Page 1
Half-title……Page 3
Series-title……Page 4
Title……Page 5
Copyright……Page 6
Contents……Page 9
Preface……Page 11
Abbreviations……Page 13
The problem……Page 17
Historiography……Page 18
Sources……Page 23
2 Parliament and the paper constitutions……Page 28
The ‘single person’……Page 31
The council……Page 38
Parliament……Page 43
Royalists……Page 52
Religion……Page 55
Conclusion……Page 62
The reform of the franchise……Page 65
The first Protectorate Parliament……Page 70
The second Protectorate Parliament……Page 75
The third Protectorate Parliament……Page 88
Exclusions before the first Protectorate Parliament……Page 96
Exclusions during the first Protectorate Parliament……Page 99
Exclusions before the second Protectorate Parliament……Page 103
Protests and readmissions, 1656–7……Page 107
The return of the excluded, 1658–9……Page 112
Conclusion……Page 117
5 Factional politics and parliamentary management……Page 118
The court party……Page 121
The civilian interest……Page 122
The army interest……Page 125
The end of the Cromwellian consensus……Page 128
The Presbyterians……Page 130
The common wealthsmen……Page 136
The crypto-royalists……Page 138
Conclusion……Page 140
6 Oliver Cromwell and Parliaments……Page 143
The Long Parliament……Page 144
The Rump and Barebone’s……Page 146
Oliver Cromwell’s vision of Parliament……Page 148
Oliver Cromwell and the Parliaments, 1657–8……Page 152
Parliaments and the search for a godly nation……Page 156
Oliver Cromwell’s view of Parliament in its wider context……Page 160
Richard Cromwell’s early career……Page 164
The calling of the third Protectorate Parliament……Page 169
The third Protectorate Parliament……Page 174
Richard Cromwell and Parliaments: a reassessment……Page 184
Law reform in the first and second Protectorate Parliaments……Page 187
The second Protectorate Parliament: judicature and the Other House……Page 199
The third Protectorate Parliament……Page 207
Conclusion……Page 211
The first Protectorate Parliament……Page 213
1656–7……Page 221
1658 and 1659……Page 231
Conclusion……Page 235
10 Representation and taxation in England and Wales……Page 237
The rhetoric of representation……Page 238
The reality of representation……Page 242
Case studyrepresenting Dorset, 1654–9……Page 248
Taxation……Page 254
11 Parliament and foreign policy……Page 260
1654–5……Page 262
1656–7……Page 264
1658……Page 272
1659……Page 274
Conclusion……Page 281
12 Irish and Scottish affairs……Page 283
1654–5……Page 284
Scotland, 1656–7……Page 290
Ireland, 1656–7……Page 298
1658 and 1659……Page 303
Conclusion……Page 308
13 Conclusion……Page 310
Appendix 1 Members excluded from the Second Protectorate Parliament……Page 318
Appendix 2 The Remonstrance of 23 February 1657……Page 322
England……Page 329
Ireland……Page 330
Sources published before 1700……Page 331
Sources published since 1700……Page 333
Secondary sources……Page 334
Index……Page 341