The House of Lords in the Middle Ages: A history of the English House of Lords to 1540

724 Pages·1968·44.328 MB·English

by  J. Enoch Powell, Keith Wallis

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THE
HOUSE OF LORDS
IN THE
MIDDLE AGES

THE
HOUSE OF LORDS
IN THE
MIDDLE AGES
A History of the English House of Lords to 1540
J. ENOCH POWELL
P.C., M.A.(Cantab.)
Sometime Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
and
KEITH WALLIS
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
5 Winsley Street London W1
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© 1968 by J. Enoch Powell and Keith Wallis
Made and printed in Great Britain by
William Clowes and Sons, Limited, London and Beccles
CONTENTS
page
Foreword ix
Introduction xi
1 Witenagemot 1
2 The king’s court after the Conquest 12
3 The Normanisation of the king’s court 27
4 The court of the Conqueror’s sons 49
5 The Anarchy: earldoms for sale 64
6 Henry II: the organiser and his council 73
7 The council and the absent king 93
8 The loss of Normandy and the barons’ charter 107
9 The council of an infant king 130
10 The shires come to the council 154
11 The magnates, the council and parliament 183
12 Edward I’s parliament in peace and war 201
13 Summons to parliament 219
14 Opposition in parliament 232
15 The Carlisle parliament of 1307 249
16 The Ordainers and the baronage 264
17 The peers of the realm and the estates 282
18 Summons to parliament, 1307-30: stabilisation 303
19 The two ‘houses’ of parliament 316
20 Prelates and peerage 330
21 Recruitment of the peers 347
22 Lords and commons: the last years of Edward III 362
23 The minority of Richard II 380
24 Appeal and judgment of peers 401
25 A closed peerage, two houses and three estates 427
26 The lords in Henry Vi’s minority 451
27 Lancaster and York 479
28 Yorkist creations and rewards 507
29 The theory of creation by writ 527
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30 The lords and the heralds 543
31 The reformation parliament 563
Appendix A. The case of Willoughby de Broke versus Latimer, 1497
(pp. 536-7) 583
Appendix B. An imaginary reconstruction of Edward I’s parliament
(p. 555) 593
Notes on Plates 595
Abbreviations 605
Subject Index 607
Index of proper names 625
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