Foreword

pp vii-vii

Foreword

pp viii-ix

Contents

pp x-xiii

Editor’s Preface

pp xiv-xv

Acknowledgements

pp xvi-xviii

Contributors

pp xix-xix

Abbreviations

pp xx-xxx

Introductory Survey

pp 1-2

I - Method and Sources

pp 3-16

II - Narrative of Events

pp 17-30

III - Constituencies and Elections

pp 31-81

IV - The Members

pp 82-123

V - The Organization of the House

pp 124-158

VI - Committees of the House of Commons

pp 159-185

VII - Parliamentary Government: Executive Committees

pp 186-213

VIII - The Scope, Authority and Jurisdiction of the House of Commons

pp 214-232

IX - The Business of the House

pp 233-258

X - Politics and Party in the House of Commons

pp 259-305

Appendix 1 - Dates of Parliaments and sessions, 1640-60

pp 306-307

Appendix 2 - By-elections

pp 308-315

Appendix 3 - Speakers of the House of Commons

pp 316-316

Appendix 4 - Principal Judicial and State Officeholders

pp 317-319

Appendix 5 - Officials of the House of Commons or of Parliament

pp 320-320

Appendix 6 - Chairmen of Standing Committees

pp 321-323

Appendix 7 - Failed Parliamentary Candidates

pp 324-332

Appendix 8 - The ‘Straffordians’ of April 1641

pp 333-333

Appendix 9 - Members who fled to the New Model army in 1647

pp 334-336

Appendix 10 - Members excluded at Pride’s Purge, December 1648

pp 337-339

Appendix 11 - Dissenters to the 5 December 1648 Vote to continue negotiations with the King

pp 340-342