Parliaments and Politics during the Cromwellian Protectorate

by Patrick Little , David L. Smith

• ISBN13: 9780521838672
• ISBN10: 0521838673
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-05
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This volume provides a detailed book-length study of the period of the Protectorate Parliaments from September 1654 to April 1659. The study is very broad in its scope, covering topics as diverse as the British and Irish dimensions of the Protectorate Parliaments, the political and social nature of factions, problems of management, the legal and judicial aspects of Parliament's functions, foreign policy and the nature of the parliamentary franchise and elections in this period. In its wide-ranging analysis of Parliaments and politics throughout the Protectorate the book also examines both Lord Protectors, all three Protectorate Parliaments and the reasons why Oliver and Richard Cromwell were never able to achieve a stable working relationship with any Parliament. Its chronological coverage extends to the demise of the Third Protectorate Parliament in April 1659. This comprehensive account will appeal to historians of early modern British political history.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
List of abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction: historiography and sources	p. 1
Parliament and the paper constitutions	p. 12
Elections	p. 49
Exclusions	p. 80
Factional politics and parliamentary management	p. 102
Oliver Cromwell and Parliaments	p. 127
Richard Cromwell and Parliaments	p. 148
Law reform, judicature, and the Other House	p. 171
Religious reform	p. 197
Representation and taxation in England and Wales	p. 221
Parliament and foreign policy	p. 244
Irish and Scottish affairs	p. 267
Conclusion	p. 294
Members excluded from the Second Protectorate Parliament	p. 302
The Remonstrance of 23 February 1657	p. 306
Bibliography	p. 313
Index	p. 325
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