The lectures printed in the present volume were delivered in the University of Cambridge by the author as Deputy for the Regius Professor of Modern History during the academic year 1926–27. Dr Tanner deals with: Religious Questions in the Parliaments of James I; Constitutional Questions in the Parliaments of James I; The earlier Parliaments of Charles I; The eleven years of Non-Parliamentary Government; The Long Parliament and Reform; The Long Parliament and Revolution; The Long Parliament and Civil War; The Long Parliament and the Army; The Rule of the Purged Parliament, 1649–1653; The Parliament of Saints and the first Parliaments of the Protectorate; The Restoration; The Pension Parliament; The Policy of Exclusion; The Revolution of 1688.
Originally published in 1930, this volume containing the constitutional documents of the reign of James I was compiled by the Cambridge scholar and historian J. R. Tanner. It was intended as a companion volume to Tudor Constitutional Documents and closely follows the arrangement of that work. Tanner included an historical commentary for the documents, drawing particular attention to the way in which policies and attitudes under James I differed from those of the Tudors.
First published in 1930, as the second edition of a 1922 original, this book contains material from a series of Tudor constitutional documents, together with a detailed historical commentary of the period. The text was aimed specifically at Cambridge students and the documents selected were chosen mainly for their accessibility in Cambridge University Library and the College libraries. It was based upon a course of lectures on later constitutional history delivered to Tripos candidates at Cambridge. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the Tudor period and the development of the British constitution.
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