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E. B. Fryde and Edward Miller, eds.
Historical Studies of the English Parliament: vol. 1, Origins to 1399; vol. 2, 1399 to 1603.
Publisher: Cambridge U.P., undated reprint (previously issued 1970).
ISBN 521096103 (Vol. 1); 521069111 (Vol. 2).
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Size: 151x228x56pp.
Page count: xii,387pp (Vol. 1); xii,350pp (Vol. 2).
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: this copy has some wear and discoloration on the covers, with a heavy crease to the back cover of vol. 2; spines faded and creased, though the bindings are sound; some pencil marking to the introduction & chapter 1 of vol. 2, mainly in the form of sidelining in the margins, otherwise text appears to be clear of marking; includes a compliment slip from E. B. Fryde.


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Reprints a collection of significant articles from various journals and festschriften.

Contents: Vol 1:
Joliffe, Factors in the beginnings of Parliament;
Treharne, Nature of Parliament in the reign of Henry III;
Maitland, Memoranda de Parliamento, 1305;
Edwards, Plena Potestas of English parliamentary representatives;
Edwards, Personnel of the Commons under Edward I & Edward II;
Cam, Legislators of medieval England;
Plucknett, History of Parliament, 1327-36;
Fryde, History of Parliament & the French war, 1336-40;
Cam, Theory & practice of representation in medieval England;
Edwards, "Justice" in early English parliaments;
Tout, The English Parliament & public opinion 1376-88;
Edwards, History of Parliamentary committee of 1398;
Wilkinson, Deposition of Richard II & accession of Henry IV.

Contents: vol. 2:
Brown, Commons & the Council in the reign of Henry IV;
Wolffe, Acts of Resumption in the Lancastrian parliaments, 1399-1456;
Lander, Attainder & forfeiture, 1453-1509;
Miller, London & Parliament in the reign of Henry VIII;
Neale, Commons' privilege of free speech in Parliament;
Elton, History of Parliamentary drafts, 1529-1540;
Neale, Elizabethan Acts of Supremacy & Uniformity;
Neale, Peter Wentworth;
Roskell, Perspectives in English parliamentary history.


See also | History of Parliament |

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