Clyve Jones

Biographic Data

ID	3765909
NAME	Clyve Jones
GIVEN NAMES	Clyve
FAMILY NAME	Jones
SIGNATURE	JONES C
AFFILIATIONS	University of London
VERIFIED	No
TOTAL WORKS	42
TOTAL CITATIONS	8
AUTHOR COUNT	41
EDITOR COUNT	1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1973
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2019
H-INDEX	1

Lord Bruce and the Marlborough Election Petition of 1735: An Aristocratic Lobbying of the House of Commons and a Blow against the Ministry of Sir Robert Walpole
Open AccessClyve JonesARTICLEParliamentary History2019
The success of two tory candidates at Marlborough in the general election of 1734 led to a petition to the Commons from the two defeated whig candidates, alleging corruption and malpractice by the winning side. The two tories had stood on the interest of the Bruce family, led by Charles, Lord Bruce. Bruce successfully organised a vast lobbying campaign against the petition. Most of the lobbyists were MPs, but a significant number were peers, or m…
The House of Lords and the Excise Crisis: The Storm and the Aftermath, 1733–5
Open AccessClyve JonesARTICLEParliamentary History2014
The excise crisis of 1733 was the first major parliamentary crisis Sir R obert Walpole's ministry faced in the house of commons. As a result of the huge public outcry, the proposal was dropped in the Commons, but the opposition to it in the house of lords was so great that the opposition lords switched their attack in 1734 to the accounts of the S outh S ea C ompany, and the ministry lost a crucial division in the Lords (the first such loss by an…
Accommodation in the Painted Chamber for Conferences between the Lords and the Commons from 1600 to 1834
Open AccessClyve JonesARTICLEParliamentary History2014
The Painted Chamber, adjacent to the old house of lords at Westminster, was the venue for conferences between the house of lords and house of commons designed to settle any disagreements between the two Houses. Information about the accommodation in the Painted Chamber and its furnishings is provided by a study of a plan by Sir Christopher Wren dated about 1703 and a painting by William Capon of 1799. This note discusses the layout of the accommo…
Bibliography of the Published Works of D.W . H ayton
Open AccessClyve Jones, Richard A GauntARTICLEParliamentary History2014
Insight into the Work of the Clerks of the H ouse of Lords: Some Case Studies during J ohn W alker Senior's Occupancy of the Office of Clerk Assistant, 1670–80
Open AccessClyve JonesARTICLEParliamentary History2013
During the occupancy of the office of clerk assistant in the house of lords by J ohn W alker sr (1664–82) and his son J ohn W alker jr (1682–1715) jottings appeared in the margins of the manuscript minutes (the preliminary stage of the L ords’ journal compiled each day on which the H ouse sat). These jottings are concerned with the work that the clerks assistant performed as part of their ‘official’ duties, such as those concerned with the regist…
Bibliography of the Published Works of Sir John Sainty
Open AccessClyve JonesARTICLEParliamentary History2013
The Extra‐Parliamentary Organisation of the Whig Junto in the Reign of William III
Open AccessClyve JonesARTICLEParliamentary History2013
There is much evidence for the parliamentary organisation of the whig junto in Queen Anne's reign, but little for its extra‐parliamentary organisation. This note gives evidence for such extra‐parliamentary organisation late in the reign of William III from letters by both James Vernon and Robert Harley, which describe meetings of the junto and some of its supporters in the country houses of followers in the summers of 1698, 1699 and 1700
The Missing Official Proxy Records of the House of Lords for 1661–2
Open AccessRobin Eagles, Clyve JonesARTICLEParliamentary History2013
Voting in the house of lords until 1867 was allowed by proxy if a peer or bishop was absent. Proxy deeds which enabled the absent peers and bishops to nominate their proxies had to be registered in a proxy book in the care of the clerk assistant. Until recently there was no record of a proxy book for 1661–2, it having been wrongly bound with proceedings for 1625–6. This note looks at the layout of this newly‐found proxy book, and compares it with…
Too Wild to Succeed’: The Occasional Conformity Bills and the Attempts by the House of Lords to Outlaw the Tack in the Reign of Anne
Open AccessClyve JonesARTICLEParliamentary History2011
By the late 17th century it had been largely established as a part of the ‘constitution’ that the house of commons played the leading role in proposing financial legislation and that the house of lords by convention could not amend such bills, but only accept or reject them. From the late 1670s, the practice developed of the Commons ‘tacking’ money or supply bills to other, controversial legislation, to try to ensure that the Lords would pass the…
Of Male and Female Heirs; of English and Scottish Peerages: The Fine Tuning of the Peerage Bills of 1719
Open AccessClyve JonesARTICLEParliamentary History2010
There were two versions of the Peerage Bill in 1719, one which was lost in the house of lords in April when the parliament was prerogued and one in December which was defeated in the house of commons. The first was constructed in debates in the Lords, in conjunction with the judges, based on resolutions introduced into the upper House by the duke of Somerset; the second was introduced into the Lords as a fully formed bill. Both bills underwent ch…
Party Affiliation in the House of Lords in 1710: A Contemporary Assessment
Open AccessClyve JonesARTICLEParliamentary History2009
A copy of a printed list of members of both the house of lords and the house of commons published in 1708 has been annotated with manuscript markings of the party affiliations of the members, probably dating from 1710. This note looks at the this contemporary assessment of the affiliations of the peers and bishops in the Lords and compares it with the party affiliations published by Geoffrey Holmes, mainly in his seminal work, British Politics in…
The Debate in the House of Lords on ‘No Peace without Spain’, 7 December 1711: A New Source
Open AccessClyve JonesARTICLEParliamentary History2009
The debate in the house of lords on ‘No Peace without Spain’ in December 1711 was the first test of the strength of the administration of Robert Harley, earl of Oxford, in the upper House. Though there are more sources for this debate than is normal for proceedings in the Lords, few can claim to be by eyewitnesses. A newly ‘discovered’ anonymous letter from an eyewitness found in the papers of the lord great chamberlain's office in the Parliament…
Further Proxy Records for the House of Lords, 1660–1720
Open AccessClyve JonesARTICLEParliamentary History2009
Proxy voting was a privilege of the members of the house of lords, which was used in their absence. Proxies were normally registered by a clerk of the House in the proxy books which recorded the proxy held and by whom, the date of the proxy or its registration, and, where necessary, the date and reason for its revoking. An examination of the manuscript minutes of the proceedings of the House for 1660–1720, kept by the same clerks who kept the pro…
The Brownlow Estate Bill select committee in the house of lords, 1717: A glimpse into the politics and the workings of the committee system
Open AccessClyve JonesARTICLEHistorical Research2009
On 27 May 1717 the house of lords select committee on a bill dealing with the estate of the late Sir John Brownlow, third baronet, sat for the only time. Sometime in the previous week, Lord Guilford, a member of the committee, acting on behalf of members of the Brownlow family, wrote to eleven members of the committee asking them to attend. This document, a very rare example of a peer lobbying a select committee on a private bill, is examined to …
New Parliamentary Lists, 1660-1800
Open AccessClyve JonesARTICLEParliamentary History2008
The Postponement of the Peerage Bill in April 1719 Revisited
Open AccessClyve JonesARTICLEParliamentary History2008
Dissent and Protest in the House of Lords, 1641–1998: An Attempt to Reconstruct the Procedures Involved in Entering a Protest into the Journals of the House of Lords
Open AccessClyve JonesARTICLEParliamentary History2008
Members of the house of lords had the right to enter their dissent from a decision reached by the House into the journal, the formal record of the Lords' proceedings, by signing their names against the record of the decision. Further, members could enter a protest, which normally consisted of a reason or a series of reasons for the dissent together with their signatures. The first such protest originated in 1641 and, though it is still possible t…
The Vote in the House of Lords on the Duke of Ormond's ‘Restraining Orders’, 28 May 1712
Open AccessClyve JonesARTICLEParliamentary History2007
This Waye of Proceeding would Remoove the Umbrage, and Uneasynesse, of Courte, and Country Heere’: The Earl of Abercorn's 1708 Scheme for Reforming the Election of the Scottish Representative Peers
Open AccessClyve JonesARTICLEScottish historical review/ The…2007Cited by: 1References: 1
The 1707 Anglo-Scottish Act of Union established the Scottish representationin the house of lords at Westminster as 16 peers elected by the rest ofthe Scottish peerage. The first such election in 1708 displayed all the pressuresand corruption of the English parliamentary system with government interference in order to elect its own list of candidates. The reign of Anne saw a growing Scottish backlash against the importation of Englishparty electi…
The Commons' Address of Thanks in Reply to the King's Speech, 13 November 1755: Rank and Status Versus Politics
Open AccessClyve Jones, John Christopher SaintyARTICLEParliamentary History2006
Lord Oxford's Jury: The Political and Social Context of the Creation of the Twelve Peers, 1711–12
Open AccessClyve JonesARTICLEParliamentary History2005
Further Evidence of the Splits in the Anti‐Walpole Opposition in the House of Lords: A List for the Division of 9 April 1741 on the Subsidy for Austria
Open AccessClyve JonesARTICLEParliamentary History2005
The 'reforming' Sunderland/Stanhope ministry and the opening of the 1718-19 session of parliament in the house of lords
Open AccessClyve JonesARTICLEHistorical Research2005References: 4
Journal Article The ‘reforming’ Sunderland/Stanhope ministry and the opening of the 1718–19 session of parliament in the house of lords Get access Clyve Jones Clyve Jones Institute of Historical Research, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 78, Issue 199, February 2005, Pages 58–73, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.2005.00239.x Published: 01 February 2005
The Bishops and the Extra‐Parliamentary Organization of the Whig Junto in the Reign of Queen Anne
Open AccessClyve JonesARTICLEParliamentary History2003
Peers and Placemen: Lord Keeper Cowper's Notes on the Debate on the Place Clause in the Regency Bill, 31 January 1706
Open AccessDavid Hayton, Clyve JonesARTICLEParliamentary History1999