Acknowledgements 3

Abbreviations 4

Introduction 5

Computus Rolls: 17

• 1. 1272–3 (ECR 63/4) 17

• 2. 1276–7 (ECR 63/5) 72

• 3. 1281–2 (ECR 63/6) 86

• 4. 1283–4 (KCC WB 2/2) 114

• 5. 1287–8 (ECR 63/7) 145

• 6. 1288–9 (ECR 63/8) 180

7. Sede Vacante Roll, 2 October 1281–17 February 1282 (KCC WB 2/1) 186

Glossary 196

Introduction 345

Annexe 1: Schedule of extracts from House of Lords Record Office, House of Commons Lib. MS. 12, ff. 86V–132. 354

Annexe 2: Schedule of contents of Hertfordshire Record Office, D/EPF101, ff. 16–18V. 354

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1695–8 Parliament: 1697–8 session. Salwey Winnington's notes on debates in the House of Commons 10 Dec. 1697–8 Jan. 1698. 356

1698–1700 Parliament: 1698–9 session.

1. William Cowper's narrative of proceedings in the House of Commons, 6 Dec. 1698–3 Feb. 1699. 361

2. Salwey Winnington's notes on debates and proceedings in the House of Commons, 23 Dec. 1698-prob. 10 Mar. 1699. 379

3. William Cowper's ‘Notes taken in the Mony-Chair’, as chairman of the committees of supply and ways and means, 11 Jan.–4 Apr. 1699. 392

Biographical index of M.P.s. 402