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RECONSTRUCTING THE OPENING SESSION OF THE LONG PARLIAMENT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2008

DAVID L. SMITH
DAVID L. SMITH
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SELWYN COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
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The Historical Journal , Volume 51 , Issue 4 , December 2008 , pp. 1103 - 1114
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References

1 Wallace Notestein, ed., The journal of Sir Simonds D'Ewes from the beginning of the Long Parliament to the opening of the trial of the earl of Strafford (New Haven, CT, 1923), p. xi.

2 So far the following have appeared: Maija Jansson (ed.), Proceedings in parliament, 1614 (Philadelphia, PA, 1988); Maija Jansson and W. B. Bidwell, eds., Proceedings in parliament, 1625 (New Haven, CT, and London, 1987); Maija Jansson and W. B. Bidwell, eds., Proceedings in parliament, 1626 (4 vols., New Haven, CT, and London, 1991–6); and M. F. Keeler, M. J. Cole, and W. B. Bidwell, eds., Proceedings in parliament, 1628 (6 vols., New Haven, CT, 1977–83). Earlier editions, employing a slightly different format, include: E. R. Foster, ed., Proceedings in parliament, 1610 (2 vols., New Haven, CT, and London, 1966); Wallace Notestein, F. H. Relf and H. Simpson, eds., Commons debates, 1621 (7 vols., New Haven, CT, 1935); and Wallace Notestein and F. H. Relf, eds., Commons debates for 1629 (Minneapolis, MN, 1921).

3 For example Maija Jansson, ed., Two diaries of the Long Parliament (Gloucester, 1984), which printed the diary of William Ogden (University College, London, Ogden MS 7, 51) and an anonymous diary at the Beinecke Library at Yale (formerly Yale Uncatalogued MS 226; now GEN MSS VOL 8). This anonymous diary has subsequently been ascribed to Sir Ralph Verney: see Maija Jansson and Michael Mendle, ‘Escape from anonymity: Sir Verney', Ralph, Parliamentary History, 5 (1986), pp. 99–100Google Scholar. Two further instances of notes of parliamentary proceedings already published but not reproduced in the present volumes are: A. H. A. Hamilton, Note book of Sir John Northcote (London, 1877), which covers 24 Nov. 1640 to 21 June 1641; and John Bruce, ed., Notes of proceedings in the Long Parliament … by Sir Ralph Verney, Knight (Camden Society, 31, London, 1845), covering Dec. 1640 to 27 June 1642.

4 See, for example, volume iii, pp. 76–7, 98–9, 124–5, 174–5, 202–4, 226–7, 262, 299–300, 344–6, 392–3, 443–4, 463–4, 475–6, 491–3, 535–6, 562–3, 599–600; volume iv, pp. 197–8, 221–3, 234, 257–8, 284–5, 326–7.

5 Volume iii, p. xxxvi.

6 Volume vii, pp. 400–1.

7 For some examples from November and December 1640, see volume i, pp. 47–50, 87–9, 180–1, 241–2, 283–4, 299–301, 348, 362–3, 384–6, 429–32, 446–53, 571–5, 638–40, 672–8.

8 To take the month of January 1641 in volume ii as a sample: additional variant versions of speeches are included for Sir Simonds D'Ewes on 2 Jan. (pp. 93–5), Sir Edward Dering on 13 Jan. (pp. 187–8), Sir Benjamin Rudyerd and Sir John Wray on 21 Jan. (pp. 239–41), and John Pym on 30 Jan. (pp. 324–6).

9 The initial debate can be found in G. R. Elton, Studies in Tudor and Stuart politics and government (4 vols., Cambridge, 1974–92), ii, pp. 3–18, the latter part of which is a reply to Hexter, J. H., ‘Parliament under the lens’, in British Studies Monitor, 3 (1972–3), pp. 4–15Google Scholar. For Elton's views, see also G. R. Elton, The parliament of England, 1559–1581 (Cambridge, 1986), pp. 10–14. Hexter made a further contribution in ‘Quoting the Commons, 1604–1642’, in DeLoyd J. Guth and John W. McKenna, eds., Tudor rule and revolution (Cambridge, 1982), pp. 369–91. More recently, John Morrill has addressed these issues in three articles: ‘Reconstructing the history of early Stuart parliaments’, Archives, 21 (1994), pp. 67–72; ‘Paying one's D'Ewes’, Parliamentary History, 14 (1995), pp. 179–86; and ‘Getting over D'Ewes’, Parliamentary History, 15 (1996), pp. 221–30. The third of these papers is a reply to Jansson, Maija, ‘Dues paid’, Parliamentary History, 15 (1996), pp. 215–20CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

10 For some examples of this phenomenon, see volume i, pp. 355, 420, 421–2, 422, 460–1, 566, 567–8, 589, 623; volume ii, pp. 124–5, 126, 135–7, 144, 173, 184, 191–2, 200, 216, 224, 230–1, 237–8, 247, 249–50, 251–2, 278–9, 281–2, 320–1, 332, 334–5, 343, 363, 367, 399–400, 480–1, 497–500, 520–1, 562–4, 663–5, 694–7, 725–7, 752–4, 795–6. The Order of Business at the beginning of each day's proceedings helps to identify at a glance those speeches that are recorded in only one diary.

11 Morrill, ‘Paying one's D'Ewes’, p. 183.

12 Cromartie, A. D. T., ‘The printing of parliamentary speeches, November 1640–July 1642’, Historical Journal, 33 (1990), pp. 23–44Google Scholar.

13 John Morrill, ‘The unweariableness of Mr Pym: influence and eloquence in the Long Parliament’, in Susan D. Amussen and Mark A. Kishlansky, eds., Political culture and cultural politics in early modern England: essays presented to David Underdown (Manchester, 1995), pp. 19–54, especially pp. 36–9.

14 A point made forcefully in Jansson, ‘Dues paid’, especially pp. 215–17, 219–20.

15 Cf. Hexter, ‘Quoting the Commons’, especially pp. 377–9.

16 See especially ibid.

17 See Morrill, ‘Reconstructing the history of early Stuart parliaments’, pp. 71–2, and Morrill, ‘Paying one's D'Ewes’, p. 186.

18 Jansson, ‘Dues paid’.

19 D'Ewes appears to have been absent on 22, 23, 24, 26, 29, 30, and 31 July, and 2 August 1641.

20 Volume i, pp. 51–73.

21 Volume i, pp. 243–62.

22 See especially volume i, pp. 571–5, 640–8; volume ii, pp. 173–4, 399–400, 530–8; volume vi, pp. 632–6, 654–9.

23 See especially volume iii, pp. 477–9; volume iv, pp. 35–9, 43–4 (for Leighton); volume i, pp. 448–52, 527–9, 545–7, 604–6; volume ii, pp. 23–4, 79–80; volume iv, pp. 22–5, 28–9 (for Prynne); volume i, pp. 36–7, 49–50, 55–6, 437–8, 446–8; volume ii, pp. 23–6, 722–5, 729–31; volume iii, pp. 106–8 (for Burton); volume i, pp. 47–8, 638–40; volume ii, pp. 162–3 (for Bastwick); volume i, pp. 64, 67, 69–72; volume iv, pp. 188, 191, 195 (for Lilburne).

24 See especially volume ii, pp. 611–12; volume iv, pp. 243, 247, 253, 357, 361, 390, 393–4, 401, 532.

25 See especially volume i, pp. 484–8, 490–2, 494–6, 499–500; volume ii, pp. 192–4.

26 The index entries for Ireland and Scotland give a ready sense of the range of relevant material: volume vii, pp. 313–14, 361–2.

27 See, for example, volume iii, pp. 354–60.

28 These are very helpfully printed in volume iii, pp. 8–48.

29 See, for example, volume iii, pp. 521–38.

30 See especially the proceedings for 12, 14, and 16 June, and 22–3 July 1641.

31 See especially John Morrill, The nature of the English Revolution (Harlow, 1993), chs. 2, 3, and 4.

32 Volume vi, pp. 631–2.

33 Volume vi, p. 634.

34 Volume vi, pp. 648, 653–6 (quotation at p. 655).

35 Volume vi, pp. 676, 686, 692.

36 Volume vi, p. 704; Lords Journal, iv, p. 395.

37 Volume vi, p. 705.

38 The proceedings for 11–12 June 1641 provide an excellent case study of these points.

39 Conrad Russell, The causes of the English Civil War (Oxford, 1990), pp. 220–6.

41 Volume vi, pp. 90, 396.

41 Volume v, p. xv; volume vi, pp. 614–15.

42 Volume vi, pp. 632, 648, 675, 678.

43 Volume vi, pp. 632, 648, 675, 678.