The house of commons 1386–1421 — a commentary

The data on the House of Commons and its members between 1386 and 1421 made available in the recently published volumes of the History of Parliament are analysed to throw new light on the structure of the representative system, the composition of the Commons, the background, status and experience of MPs and their relationship to their constituencies, the nature of election procedures and the vexed but inconclusive question of royal and noble interference. The years 1386–1421, with an assertive Commons dominated by the knights of the shires and with a sharply rising proportion of lawyer members, but still composed overwhelmingly of local men, can be seen as bringing the great developments in the history of parliament in the fourteenth century to a culmination

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• Parliament and ‘Bastard Feudalism’

  Open Access•K B Mcfarlane•Transactions of the Royal…•1944

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• Select Documents of English Constitutional History, 1307-1485

  Stephen Mitchell, Stephen R Mitchell et al.•The Western Political Quarterly•1962

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• Re-election to Parliament in the Reign of Richard II

  N B Lewis•The English Historical Review•1933

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• The English Parliament of the Middle Ages

  Robert C Palmer, H G Richardson et al.•American Journal of Legal History•1982

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• The History of Parliament

  Open Access•J Sainty•Parliamentary Affairs•1964

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• Adam Usk, the Monke of Evesham and the Parliament of 1397-8

  Open Access•Chris Given-Wilson•Historical Research•1993

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