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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 March 2011
Since the major continental archival collections were calendared in the nineteenth century no new sources for the history of the Parliament of 1559 have been reported. Thus it was with some elation that I recognised a draft of a bill from that Parliament among the Lansdowne Manuscripts. Described by the cataloguer as the ‘draft of an act to confirm Bishop Bonner's deprivation and admit Bishop Ridley to episcopal authority’, it had been assigned the date of 1549, but to anyone familiar with the bills introduced in 1559 it obviously belongs to Elizabeth's first Parliament.
1 Strype, John, Annals of the Reformation, Oxford 1824, i (i). 94–5Google Scholar.
2 Ibid., 95.
3 British Library, Lansdowne 97, fo. 187v.
4 House of Lords Record Office, Commons MS Journals, i. fo. 199V.
5 For the context of this bill see my article ‘Profiting from religious reform: the land rush of 1559’, Historical Journal, xxii (1979), 279–94Google Scholar.
6 Cat. Pat. Rolls, Ed. VI, iii. 171–2.
7 Col. Pat. Rolls, Mary, i. 121.
8 Ibid.
9 B. L., Lansdowne 97, fo. 187.
10 Cal. Pat. Rolls, Ed. VI, iv. 136.
11 H.L.R.O., Original Acts, 1 Eliz. I, no. 25 (c. 23 in Statutes of the Realm).
12 H.L.R.O., Commons MS. Journals, i. fo. 193V. This bill was enacted.
13 Ibid., fo. 196.
14 Ibid., fo. 200.
15 Ibid., fo. 200v.
16 Ibid., fo. 201v.
17 B.L., Lansdowne 97, fo. 185V.
18 Cal. Pat. Rolls, Mary, i. 74.
19 Ibid., 121.
20 B.L., Lansdowne 97, fos. 185V-186.
21 H.L.R.O., Original Acts, 1 Eliz. 1, c. 34.Jones, ‘Profiting from religious reform’, 280–3.
22 H.L.R.O., Original Acts, 1 Eliz. 1, c. 25.
23 The four, in order of their introduction into the Commons, were: ‘The bill confirmying dyverse graunts and leases made by Bysshops deprived’, H.L.R.O., Commons MS Journals, i. fo. 189. ‘The Bill to restore depryved bisshops’, ibid., to 201. ‘The bill to make lawfull the deprivacion of the bisshops of London, Wynchester, Wigorn, and Chichester in the time of K E the VIth’, ibid., fo. 204. ‘The bill that the Quene by commyssion may restore spirituall persons deprived’, ibid., fo. 212V.
24 B.L., Lansdowne 97, fos. 185V-189. I have expanded the abbreviations and modernised the punctuadon. Otherwise this is a faithful copy of the bill. The italicised portions were additions to the finished draft.