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Parliament, Politics and Policy in Britain and Ireland, c. 1680-1832 employs a variety of methodologies to expand our understanding of British and Irish parliamentary history from the exclusion crisis to the Great Reform Act.
List of contents
List of Contributors vi
Abbreviations ix
Foreword Clyve Jones James Kelly 1
W.A. Speck David W. Hayton 3
Bibliography of the Published Works of D.W. Hayton Clyve Jones Richard A. Gaunt 8
Samuel Pcpys and Corruption Mark Knights 19
The Glorious Revolution, Parliament, and the Making of the First Industrial Nation John Beckett 36
The Irish Parliament and the Regulatory Impulse, 1692-1800: The Case of the Coal Trade Eoin Magennis 54
The Private Bill Legislation of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800 James Kelly 73
The Irish Parliament and Print, 1660-1782 Toby Barnard 97
Censorship, Salvation and the Preaching of Francis Higgins: A Reconsideration of High Church Politics and Theology in the Early 18th Century Alex W. Barber 114
Securing the Hanoverian Succession in Ireland: Jacobites, Money and Men, 1714-16 Charles Ivar McGrath 140
The House of Lords and the Excise Crisis: The Storm and the Aftermath, 1733-5 Clyve Jones 160
The Attack of the Creolian Powers: West Indians at the Parliamentary Elections of Mid-Georgian Britain, 1754-74 Perry Gauci 201
Loyal Opposition? Prince Frederick and Parliament (1729-51) Robin Eagles 223
Peel's Other Repeal: The Test and Corporation Acts, 1828 Richard A. Gaunt 243
Index 263
About the author
Clyve Jones is Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research and has been Editor of
Parliamentary History since 1986. Previously he was Reader in Modern History at the University of London and Collection Development Librarian in the Institute of Historical Research. He has published extensively on the history of the House of Lords and of the peerage in the early eighteenth century. His most recent publications include
A Short History of Parliament: England, Britain, the United Kingdom, Scotland and Ireland (2009) and
British Politics in the Age of Holmes: Geoffrey Holmes's "British Politics in the Age of Anne" 40 Years On (Wiley, 2009).
James Kelly is Cregan Professor of History at St. Patrick's College, Dublin City University, Ireland. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and of the Irish Manuscripts Commission and currently serves as Editor of
Analecta Hibernica and Joint Editor of
Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. He is past-President of the Irish Historical Society and The Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society. He is the author or editor of several books on Irish history, including most recently,
Clubs and Societies in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (2010) and
Sir Richard Musgrave, 1746-1818: Ultra-Protestant Ideologue (2009).
Summary
Parliament, Politics and Policy in Britain and Ireland, c. 1680-1832 employs a variety of methodologies to expand our understanding of British and Irish parliamentary history from the exclusion crisis to the Great Reform Act.
