Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Robert Harper and parliamentary agency
- 2 Treatises and handbooks
- 3 The clerks: fees and agency
- 4 Parliamentary business
- 5 Private bill procedure
- 6 Estate bills
- 7 Inclosure bills
- 8 Local bills
- 9 Promulgation of the statutes
- 10 Conclusion
- Appendix I List of bills drawn by Robert Harper
- Appendix II Note on parliamentary sources
- Index
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Robert Harper and parliamentary agency
- 2 Treatises and handbooks
- 3 The clerks: fees and agency
- 4 Parliamentary business
- 5 Private bill procedure
- 6 Estate bills
- 7 Inclosure bills
- 8 Local bills
- 9 Promulgation of the statutes
- 10 Conclusion
- Appendix I List of bills drawn by Robert Harper
- Appendix II Note on parliamentary sources
- Index
Summary
All students of this subject must acknowledge their debt to the work of the late Dr O. C. Williams. His intimate knowledge of the House of Commons and its ways produced three books which are an inexhaustible mine of information.
I am grateful to the benchers of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn, and to their Librarian, Mr C. W. Ringrose, for permission to consult the volume of Robert Harper MSS.
Dr P. D. G. Thomas was good enough to allow me to see the typescript of his forthcoming book, The House of Commons in the eighteenth century.
I am indebted to Mr Maurice Bond, Clerk of the Records of the House of Lords, for much valuable advice and criticism, most kindly and generously given.
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- Bills and ActsLegislative procedure in Eighteenth-Century England, pp. viiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1971