The Private Journals of the Long Parliament
The Private Journals of the Long Parliament

Author: Willson Havelock Coates

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 9780300052046

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The editorial objectives and practices set forth in the first two volumes of The Private Journals have been continued in this volume. The editors provide an accurate and useful text of the three parliamentary journals (Gawdy, D'Ewews, Hill) and the Minute Book of the Commissioners for Irish Affairs, as well as appropriate annotation. Again, the editors identify those persons whose names have not occurred previously and assist readers in finding their way through the maze of committees, bills, orders, ordinances, declarations, and messages. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Proceedings in the Opening Session of the Long Parliament, House of Commons: 3 November-19 December 1640
Proceedings in the Opening Session of the Long Parliament, House of Commons: 3 November-19 December 1640

Author: Maija Jansson

Publisher: University Rochester Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 742

ISBN-13: 9781580460378

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The volumes of Proceedings in the Opening Session of the Long Parliament present the records of proceedings in the House of Commons [5 volumes] and the House of Lords [3 volumes] beginning in November 1640. Volume 1 of theproceedings in the House of Commons is the first of two volumes leading up to the beginning of the impeachment trial of the Earl of Strafford for High Treason. For those interested in the causes of the breakdown that led to civil war and revolution in mid-seventeenth-century England, the volumes of Proceedings in the Opening Session of the Long Parliament are a good place to begin. The debates in this session focus on the accumulated problems -- political, social, economic, and religious -- that were the legacy of Charles I's years of personal rule. During the almost seven months between the dissolution of the Short Parliament in April 1640 and the first session of what came to be called the Long Parliament in November 1640, the King, his advisors, and army commanders were absorbed with the financial and military problems of the Scottisharmy camped in the north of England. In the Irish parliament in Dublin, reaction against the King's close friend the Earl of Strafford, the Deputy Lieutenant of Ireland, was beginning to crystalize. Throughout the kingdom, religious unrest continued. All of these elements came to play in the Long Parliament. Volume 1 of the House of Commons debate covers the opening session from 3 November through 19 December 1640. This volume plus Volume 2 [December 21,1640 through March 20, 1641] provide the debates leading up to the beginning of the impeachment trial of the Earl of Strafford for High Treason.

Outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641
Outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641

Author: M. Perceval-Maxwell

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1994-03-31

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 0773564500

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Perceval-Maxwell gives considerable attention to the structure of the Irish parliament in 1640 and 1641 and the decisions made by that body in both the Commons and the Lords. He argues that initially there was a broad consensus between Protestant and Catholic members of parliament on the way Ireland should be governed and on constitutional matters relating to the three kingdoms, but that this consensus was not shared by those who controlled the Irish council. He places particular emphasis on negotiations between members of the Irish parliament who were sent to England and the English council, and on the way events in Ireland influenced both English and Scottish opinion. In this context, the army raised in Ireland to counter the Scottish covenanters, and the failure to ship this army abroad before the rebellion broke out, were of crucial importance. Perceval-Maxwell contends, contrary to the opinion of other historians, that Charles I was not primarily responsible for this failure and was not plotting to use this army against the English parliament. The author explains the plotting that actually took place and provides an account of the initial months of the rebellion as it spread from county to county. In conclusion he reveals how the rebellion was perceived in England and Scotland and how these perceptions contributed to the outbreak of civil war in England. Why the Irish rebellion was important outside of its Irish context is well known but this book is the first to deal with how it became significant. It will be of particular interest to British as well as Irish historians.

Charles I and the Aristocracy, 1625–1642
Charles I and the Aristocracy, 1625–1642

Author: Richard Cust

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-06-13

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 1107244536

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This is a major study of Charles I's relationship with the English aristocracy. Rejecting the traditional emphasis on the 'Crisis of the Aristocracy', Professor Richard Cust highlights instead the effectiveness of the King and the Earl of Arundel's policies to promote and strengthen the nobility. He reveals how the peers reasserted themselves as the natural leaders of the political nation during the Great Council of Peers in 1640 and the Long Parliament. He also demonstrates how Charles deliberately set out to cultivate his aristocracy as the main bulwark of royal authority, enabling him to go to war against the Scots in 1639 and then build the royalist party which provided the means to fight parliament in 1642. The analysis is framed throughout within a broader study of aristocratic honour and the efforts of the heralds to stabilise the social order.

The Nature of the English Revolution
The Nature of the English Revolution

Author: John Morrill

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-07-15

Total Pages: 477

ISBN-13: 1317895827

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John Morrill has been at the forefront of modern attempts to explain the origins, nature and consequences of the English Revolution. These twenty essays -- seven either specially written or reproduced from generally inaccessible sources -- illustrate the main scholarly debates to which he has so richly contributed: the tension between national and provincial politics; the idea of the English Revolution as "the last of the European Wars of Religion''; its British dimension; and its political sociology. Taken together, they offer a remarkably coherent account of the period as a whole.

Political Culture and Cultural Politics in Early Modern England
Political Culture and Cultural Politics in Early Modern England

Author: Susan Dwyer Amussen

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 9780719046957

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Combining the work of major scholars on both sides of the Atlantic this volume seeks to explore the interconnections between popular culture and political activism at both the local and central levels. Strongly influenced by the work of David Underdown, the contributions range across a spectrum of social and political history from witchcraft to the aristocracy, from forest riots to battles of the civil war. The volume combines chapters from historians of gender, of political theory, of social structure, and of high politics. Within this diversity, the contributors offer a cohesive approach to the study of early modern England, encouraging the exploration of mentalities and political activities, as well as artistic rendering, writing and ceremony within the widest context of cultural politics.

Riots, Revolutions, and the Scottish Covenanters
Riots, Revolutions, and the Scottish Covenanters

Author: L. Charles Jackson

Publisher: Reformation Heritage Books

Published: 2015-04-29

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 1601783744

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Coauthor of the famous Scottish National Covenant, moderator of the Glasgow General Assembly that defied King Charles I, and member of the Westminster Assembly, Alexander Henderson (1583–1646) led Scotland during the tumultuous period of the British Revolutions. He influenced Scotland as a Covenanter, preacher, Presbyterian, and pamphleteer and earned an important place in the nation’s history. Despite his numerous accomplishments, no modern biography of Henderson exists. In Riots, Revolutions, and the Scottish Covenanters , L. Charles Jackson corrects this omission. He avoids the extremes of casting Henderson as a forerunner to liberty or as a theological tyrant and instead places his actions in their historical setting, presenting this important leader as he saw himself: primarily a minister of the gospel who was struggling to live faithfully as he understood it. Using neglected and, in some cases, new sources, Jackson reassesses the role of religion in early modern Scotland as reflected in the life of Alexander Henderson. Table of Contents: 1. The Preparation 2. The Covenanter 3. The Preacher 4. The Presbyterian 5. The Pamphleteer 6. The Collapse of the Cause

Puritan Iconoclasm During the English Civil War
Puritan Iconoclasm During the English Civil War

Author: Julie Spraggon

Publisher: Boydell Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9780851158952

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Julie Spraggon offers a detailed analysis of Puritan iconoclasm in England during the 1640s, which led to a resurgence of image breaking a century after the break with Rome. She examines parliamentary legislation, its enforcement & the parallel action undertaken by the army to rid the land of superstition.