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Front matter 1 Dedication 6 Contents 8 Notes on contributors 10 Acknowledgements 12 List of abbreviations 13 Introduction 16 Polydore Vergil and the first English parliament 52 ‘The consent of the body of the whole realme’: Edward Hall’s parliamentary history 75 The Elizabethan Church and the antiquity of parliament 92 Parliament and the principle of elective succession in Elizabethan England 121 Elizabethan chroniclers and parliament 148 The significance (and insignificance) of precedent in early Stuart parliaments 168 The politic history of early Stuart parliaments 187 ‘That memorable parliament’: medieval history in parliamentarian polemic, 1641–42 209 Institutional memory and contemporary history in the House of Commons, 1547–1640 226 Afterword 244 Index 260

Author

Paul Cavill;Alexandra Gajda;

Language

EN