The King, the People and the House of Commons
The Problem of Early Jacobean Purveyance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8958714 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eric Lindquist (Washington Center, corresponding author), Eric N Lindquist |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 549-570 |
| Publication date | 1988-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Historical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-246X • E-ISSN: 1469-5103 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0018246x00023487 |
| OpenAlex | W2000591190 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
For a brief time at the beginning of James I's reign purveyance appeared as the greatest grievance of the commonwealth, troubling the first two sessions of his first parliament. So much has long been known, but only recently has it been revealed how far the commons thought of going. The bills read in the house in 1604 and 1606, almost certainly identical or nearly so, did not look merely to remedy the abuses of purveyors, but to abolish purveyance itself – the king's right to be served provisions and carriage at prices below those current in the markets – which the house discovered was explicitly prohibited by numerous medieval statutes. The commons' refusal in the two sessions to buy the king out of his prerogative with a ‘composition’ was not then irresponsible, as one historian has suggested. The house could not readily agree to purchase what it had learned the king had no right to sell. The radical challenge to the king's prerogative embodied in the commons' bill, Dr Croft has recently argued, doomed the composition proposed by James's ministers. Instead, the house pursued its claims with ‘remarkable tenacity’, especially in 1606, when it passed the bill twice
Commons · Commonwealth · House of Commons · Law and economics · Parliament · Political science · Politics · Prerogative · Reign · Sociology · Statute · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law · Scottish History and National Identity
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Presidential Address
Discourse of the Common Weal of this Realm of England
The Idea of Hospitality in Early Modern England
Household Reforms in the Reign of James I
The Parliamentary Diary of Robert Bowyer, 1606-1607
County and Court
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,03 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 1993 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |