Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- I POLITICS AND THE REFORMATION
- 49 The State: Government and Politics under Elizabeth and James
- 50 Lex Terrae Victrix: the Triumph of Parliamentary Law in the Sixteenth Century
- 51 Human Rights and the Liberties of Englishmen
- 52 King Henry VII
- 53 Wales in Parliament, 1542–1581
- 54 Piscatorial Politics in the Early Parliaments of Elizabeth I
- 55 English National Self-consciousness and the Parliament in the Sixteenth Century
- 56 Thomas More and Thomas Cromwell
- 57 Lancelot Andrewes
- 58 Persecution and Toleration in the English Reformation
- 59 Auseinandersetzung und Zusammenarbeit zwischen Renaissance und Reformation in England
- 60 Humanism in England
- 61 Luther in England
- 62 Die europäische Reformation: Mit oder ohne Luther?
- II ON HISTORIANS
- Index of Authors Cited
- General Index
53 - Wales in Parliament, 1542–1581
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 February 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- I POLITICS AND THE REFORMATION
- 49 The State: Government and Politics under Elizabeth and James
- 50 Lex Terrae Victrix: the Triumph of Parliamentary Law in the Sixteenth Century
- 51 Human Rights and the Liberties of Englishmen
- 52 King Henry VII
- 53 Wales in Parliament, 1542–1581
- 54 Piscatorial Politics in the Early Parliaments of Elizabeth I
- 55 English National Self-consciousness and the Parliament in the Sixteenth Century
- 56 Thomas More and Thomas Cromwell
- 57 Lancelot Andrewes
- 58 Persecution and Toleration in the English Reformation
- 59 Auseinandersetzung und Zusammenarbeit zwischen Renaissance und Reformation in England
- 60 Humanism in England
- 61 Luther in England
- 62 Die europäische Reformation: Mit oder ohne Luther?
- II ON HISTORIANS
- Index of Authors Cited
- General Index
Summary
Though one of the best-known provisions of the so-called Union of Wales with England in 1536 equipped the twelve counties with twentyfour representatives at Westminster, we now know that the first elected members sat only in 1542. Their presence and influence may well have contributed to the very large statute of the next session which at long last attended to the unfinished business of turning the intentions of 1536 into something like a settled order, for that the act incorporated Welsh demands and proposals is clear enough from its contents. Wales thus seemed well placed to share in the expanding use of parliamentary statute for personal, local and national purposes which characterised the years from 1530 onwards; one would expect to find bills promoted by Welsh knights and burgesses as one finds them promoted by other identifiable interests. A study of such bills, so far as the evidence survives, for the first forty years of Welsh participation should therefore prove illuminating, though it can be said from the start that the tally is not impressive, reveals no determined exploitation of the possibilities, and must call in doubt whether an entity to be called Wales had much reality in the middle of the sixteenth century.
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- Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government , pp. 91 - 108Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992