By G. R. Elton
This can be a finished account of the parliament of early glossy England at paintings, written via the prime authority on sixteenth-century English, constitutional and political background. Professor Elton explains how parliament handled money owed and acts, discusses the numerous a number of issues that got here to note there, and investigates its position in political issues. within the approach he proves that the existing doctrine, built by way of the paintings of Sir John Neale, is incorrect, that parliament didn't gather an enormous function in politics; that the suggestion of a constant, physique of puritan agitators towards the govt is mere fiction and, even if the Commons processed extra debts than the home of Lords, the Lords occupied the extra vital and influential function. Parliament's basic functionality within the govt of the world lay really within the granting of taxes and the making of legislation. The latter have been promoted by way of an outstanding number of pursuits - the Crown, the Privy Council, the bishops, and especially by means of innumerable inner most initiators. a truly huge variety of accounts failed, most ordinarily for loss of time but additionally simply because contract among the 3 companions (Queen, Lords and Commons) couldn't be reached.
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MS 5176 text belongs to 1563, for the following reasons. (1) It refers to a law for attendance at church made in the last Parliament; there was no such law in 1566, whereas the 1559 act of uniformity (1 Eliz. I c, 2, sect. 3) fits well. (2) The speech asks for supply but none was demanded in 1572. (3) The reference to the uncompleted accounts for expeditions of 1562-3 would have been nonsense in 1572. (4) There is no allusion in the speech to the Queen of Scots, the hot theme of 1572. i, fos. i), but it may well have been an 44 Proc.
151. An obscure difficulty. Buckingham's attainder (1521) had led to an inquest which found him seised of the lordship of Holderness; by the attainder and as a result of the office, the lordship reverted to the King who, thus seised, granted the stewardship to Sir Robert Constable. The act confirming the attainder declared all Buckingham's property forfeit, which appears to have been taken as rendering the office doubtful and as freeing the King (now seised under the act) to regrant the stewardship a few years 57 later to the earl of Northumberland.
F. S. Fussner (Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 101, 1957), 215. The identification of Camden as the author is doubtful, but this does not matter in the present context. 27 Inner Temple, Petyt MS 538/54. Hale, Prerogatives, 140-1. Parliament in the sixteenth century 25 which Paul and Peter Wentworth were fond of putting forward in Elizabethan Parliaments. The semi-public platform of a Parliament - in either House - offered a suitable stage for political argument and general debate, and the inclination to engage in such debate was much stimulated by the decisions taken in the 1530s which demanded from both Lords and Commons a deep involvement in the affairs of state and Church.
