The House of Lords in the Reign of Charles II

Andrew Swatland

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511560835

- Get access
  
  Buy a print copy
  
  Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
  
  Log in Register
Cited by 8
Cited by
- 8
Crossref Citations

This Book has been cited by the following publications. This list is generated based on data provided by Crossref.

De Krey, Gary S. 2005. London and the Restoration, 1659–1683.

CrossRef

Google Scholar

De Krey, Gary S. 2007. Restoration and Revolution in Britain. p. 99.

CrossRef

Google Scholar

De Krey, Gary S. 2007. Restoration and Revolution in Britain. p. 1.

CrossRef

Google Scholar

De Krey, Gary S. 2007. Restoration and Revolution in Britain. p. 53.

CrossRef

Google Scholar

De Krey, Gary S. 2008. Between Revolutions: Re‐Appraising the Restoration in Britain. History Compass, Vol. 6, Issue. 3, p. 738.

CrossRef

Google Scholar

Beale, Stewart 2018. War widows and revenge in Restoration England. The Seventeenth Century, Vol. 33, Issue. 2, p. 195.

CrossRef

Google Scholar

Collins, Jeffrey R. 2020. In the Shadow of Leviathan.

CrossRef

Google Scholar

Fincham, Kenneth and Taylor, Stephen 2023. The English Presbyterian Conundrum of 1660-1. The Seventeenth Century, Vol. 38, Issue. 6, p. 969.

CrossRef

Google Scholar

Andrew Swatland

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: October 2009
Print publication year:: 1996
Online ISBN:: 9780511560835
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511560835

Subjects:: British History after 1450, History, Religion, Church History
Series:: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History

38.99 (GBP)

Digital access for individuals
(PDF download and/or read online)
Add to cart

Added to cart

Digital access for individuals
(PDF download and/or read online)
View cart
Export citation
Buy a print copy

Information

Contents

Metrics

This is a study of the House of Lords in the reign of Charles II. It examines the House's institutional and political activities, and reveals the vital role played by the peerage in Caroline parliaments. Andrew Swatland draws on an extensive range of sources to analyse the membership and procedural developments of the House of Lords, relating these to legislative, judicial and political issues in Restoration England. He sheds light on the Lords' relations with the king and the Commons, and assesses the contribution made by peers and bishops to the Restoration church settlement. He also describes the emergence of political parties, reinterpreting 'Toryism' and 'Whiggism' during the succession crisis of 1679–81. This detailed and balanced study is both a major institutional history and an important contribution to the history of Restoration politics and political culture.

"Swatland's book fills a long-standing gap in the literature and does so in a fashion that will make his a much-consulted work by students of Restoration politics and seventeenth-century parliamentary history." Henry Horwitz, Albion

"Swatland has written a thoroughly researched and well-reasoned monograph on a previously neglected topic: the 'restored House of Lords"....Two superb appendixes list the membership of the House of Lords." D.R. Bisson, Choice

"The work is best suited for undergraduate libraries" History

"...fills a long-standing in the literature and does so in a fashion that will make his a much-consulted work." Albion

"The book is very sensibly orgranized. ...this book,...is a fine work of scholarship." Keith L. Sprunger, American Historical Review

"This monograph...will supersede all previous published and unpublished work on Charles II's House of Lords, from those of A.S. Turberville to those of Maxfield Schoenfeld and Richard Davis. Swatland's book fills a long-standing gap... and does so in a fashion that will make his a much-consulted work by students of Restoration politics and seventeenth-century parliamentary history." Henry Horwitz, Albion

"His study will prove essential reading for those interested in all Restoration religious persuasions." Gary S. De Krey, Church History

"...this is a fine book that deserves a wide readership." Tim Harris, American Journal of Legal History

"This book is meticulously researched. Historians wilfind many useful references regarding individual peers, in the text and notes. This book is now the standard source and invites now a study of both houses in parliament and their relationship to the king." Frank T. Melton, Canadian Journal of History

- Aa Reduce text
- Aa Enlarge text

View selected items
Save to my bookmarks
Export citations
Download PDF (zip)
Save to Kindle
Save to Dropbox
Save to Google Drive
Save content to
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to .

To save content items to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Please be advised that item(s) you selected are not available.
You are about to save
Your Kindle email address

Please provide your Kindle email.

@free.kindle.com @kindle.com (service fees apply)

By using this service, you agree that you will only keep content for personal use, and will not openly distribute them via Dropbox, Google Drive or other file sharing services

Metrics

Altmetric attention score

Total number of HTML views: 0

Total number of PDF views: 0 *

Loading metrics...

Total views: 0 *

Loading metrics...

* Views captured on Cambridge Core between #date#. This data will be updated every 24 hours.

Usage data cannot currently be displayed.

The House of Lords in the Reign of Charles II

This Book has been cited by the following publications. This list is generated based on data provided by Crossref.

Book description

Reviews

Refine List

Actions for selected content:

Contents

Frontmatter
pp i-viii

Contents
pp ix-x

List of tables
pp xi-xi

Acknowledgements
pp xii-xii

List of abbreviations
pp xiii-xiv

Note on the text
pp xv-xvi

1 - Introduction
pp 1-6

PART 1 - FROM ABOLITION TO RESTORATION
pp 7-8

2 - In the wilderness, 1649–1660
pp 9-26

PART 2 - MEMBERS AND THE BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE
pp 27-28

3 - Membership, attendance and privileges
pp 29-49

4 - Legislation
pp 50-70

5 - Justice
pp 71-90

PART 3 - KING, LORDS AND COMMONS
pp 91-92

6 - King and Lords
pp 93-115

7 - Lords and Commons
pp 116-142

PART 4 - RELIGION
pp 143-144

8 - Religious composition
pp 145-158

9 - Church settlement
pp 159-172

10 - Religious nonconformity
pp 173-200

PART 5 - POLITICS
pp 201-202

11 - Factions, Country peers and the ‘Whig’ party
pp 203-233

12 - Court and ‘Tory’ peers
pp 234-259

13 - Conclusion
pp 260-263

Appendix 1 - Temporal members of the House of Lords
pp 264-274

Appendix 2 - The bishops, 1661–1681
pp 275-278

Index
pp 279-288

Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
pp 289-291

Metrics

Altmetric attention score

Full text views

Book summary page views

The House of Lords in the Reign of Charles II

Book description

Reviews

Refine List

Actions for selected content:

Save Search

Contents

Metrics

Altmetric attention score

Full text views

Book summary page views