Autorentext

JONATHAN MCGOVERN is Professor of English at the College of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Xiamen University, China. He is the author of The Tudor Sheriff: A Study in Early Modern Administration (Oxford University Press, 2022) and The Little History of England (The History Press, 2024).

Klappentext

An administrative study of Henry VIII's early parliaments (1510 to 1523), which systematically explains and analyses every aspect of parliament in the early sixteenth century. This book is an administrative study of Henry VIII's early parliaments (1510 to 1523). It systematically explains and analyses every aspect of parliament in the early sixteenth century, from legislative procedure to the composition of the House of Lords and the House of Commons. Some of the matters under discussion include statutory litigation - how parliamentary legislation was actually applied in the king's courts - and the rules of precedence and inheritance of title in the Upper House. The book's main purpose is to explain how parliament worked - what parliament did, how it was done and who was involved in doing it. It forms part of a burgeoning academic movement known as the New Administrative History, which seeks to restore a knowledge of administrative processes to its rightful place of importance in the historiography of early modern England. The book will be essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the early history of parliament.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations and Conventions Glossary Chronology 1. Introduction Preliminaries 2. Parliament in the Constitution 3. Location and Ceremony 4. Chronological Summaries Membership and Procedure 5. The Composition of the Lords and Commons 6. Administrative Personnel 7. Legislative Procedure The Business of Legislation 8. Commonwealth Matters 9. Law and Administration 10. Royal Revenue and Taxation 11. Land Transactions 12. Attainder, Restitution, Pardon and Relief 13. Success and Failure The Application of Legislation 14. Litigation and Statutory Interpretation Convocation and the Parliament of Ireland 15. Convocation 16. The Parliament of Ireland 17. Conclusion Appendices 1. Dates of Parliament 2. The Passage of Acts through the House of Lords 3. The Passage of Failed Bills through the House of Lords 4. Lords and Assistants Summoned to Parliament, 1509-23 5. The Personnel of Parliament 6. Known Members of Parliament 7. Huse v. Grimaldi 8. The Prorogations of the Parliament of 1523 9. Locations of Original Acts in the Parliamentary Archives 10. Informations on Henrician Penal Statutes Filed at the Exchequer 1510-26 Bibliography Index