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The Human Comedy in Westminster: The House of Commons, 1604–1629

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 May 2013

Thomas Cogswell
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Abstract

The completion of the House of Commons, 1604–1629, a sprawling research project involving over a dozen scholars who have toiled in the archival vineyards for the past quarter century, is a development of fundamental importance for the study of early Stuart history. This essay highlights some of its many findings and suggests some directions for further research, deploying the riches in these six volumes.

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Journal of British Studies , Volume 52 , Issue 2 , April 2013 , pp. 370 - 389
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Copyright © The North American Conference on British Studies 2013 

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1 The team at the end consisted of Ben Coates, Simon Healy, Paul Hunneyball, and Andrew Thrush. The cast at earlier stages had included Sabrina Baron, Karen Bishop, Lloyd Bowen, Alan Davidson, Anne Duffin, Lynn Hulse, Chris Kyle, Henry Lancaster, Peter Le Fevre, Virgina Moseley, Glyn Redworth, Rosemary Sgroi, Tim Venning, the late Paula Watson, and George Yerby, with cameo appearances by Irene Cassidy and Christopher Thompson. The directors of the trust played a major role in the project—Peter Hasler, Valerie Cromwell, and Paul Seaward—as did Pauline Croft, a board member particularly involved with its completion.

2 The numbers in brackets after direct quotations refer to the volume and pages numbers.

3 Thomas Conway, William Devereux, Richard Grenville, Ralph Hopton, Robert Knollys, and Dudley Norton. This list of names, like the following ones, is only a rough estimate.

4 Francis Carew, Thomas Carey, Edward Chaike, Spencer Compton, William Croft, Lewis Dyve, John Hippisley, Thomas and William Howard, and Thomas Jermyn.

5 Peregrine Bertie, Edward Conway II, Thomas Littleton, Lewis Morgan, Dudley North, Charles Price, Ralph Hopton, and Lord Wriothesley.

6 John Barker, Arthur Champernowne, Sackville Crowe, Thomas Freke, Marmaduke Rawdon, Thomas Giear, John Montagu, and Thomas Powlett.

7 Thomas Brett, Francis Carew, Edward Cecil, Edward Conway, Richard Grenville, and Francis Leigh.

8 John Ashburnham, Montagu and Peregrine Bertie, Thomas Brett, William Beecher, Edward Conway, Thomas Glenham, Richard Graham, Richard Grenville, John Griffith, Henry Hungate, Thomas Jay, Thomas Littleton, Reginald Mohun, Roger Poley, Charles Price, and John Radcliffe. Alexander Temple, Richard Moryson, and John Stradling lost sons, and Thomas Alured a brother-in-law, there.

9 None of these educational plans came to pass, and Digges's race eventually ended. Yet while all remain eminently worthy, the sad financial fact is that the endowed chairs, to say nothing of a Manx university or a Cambridge college, would now require an enthusiastic multimillionaire to fund them. The revival of the Chilham race, however, is well within the financial reach of even hard-pressed academics, who arguably should pass the hat and revive it.

10 Cust, Richard, The Forced Loan and English Politics, 1626–1628 (Oxford, 1987), 315Google Scholar.

11 On attendance, see Thrush's excellent chapter, I:257–78.

12 For more on the political uses of “separates,” see Millstone, Noah, “Evil Counsel: the Propositions to Bridle the Impertinency of Parliament and the Critique of Caroline Government in the Late 1620s,” Journal of British Studies 50 no. 4 (2011): 813–39CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and his forthcoming book, Plot's Commonwealth: The Circulation of Manuscripts and the Practice of Politics in Early Stuart England, c. 1614–1640.

13 “Grand Remonstrance,” in Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, ed. Gardiner, S. R. (London, 1906), 209–10Google Scholar.

14 Engels to Harkness, April 1888, http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1888/letters/88_04_15.htm.