Description
Book SynopsisThis book employs a variety of methodologies, including thematic survey, biographical enquiry, and specific study, to examine British and Irish parliamentary history between the exclusion crisis and the Great Reform Act.
- Casts new light on familiar themes and also introduces previously unexplored issues
- Discusses important topics and figures of the period, such as Robert Peel; Frederick, Prince of Wales; Irish regulation of trade; the Excise Crisis; the impact of the West Indies on the mid-Georgian elections; and the Glorious Revolution of 1688
- Utilizes the Irish Legislation Database to re-examine the history of the pre-Union Irish parliament
- Unites the scholarship of prominent figures in the field with the voices of younger historians
Table of ContentsList of Contributors vi
Abbreviations ix
Foreword Clyve Jones James Kelly 1
W.A. Speck David W. Hayton 3
Bibliography of the Published Works of D.W. Hayton Clyve Jones Richard A. Gaunt 8
Samuel Pcpys and Corruption Mark Knights 19
The Glorious Revolution, Parliament, and the Making of the First Industrial Nation John Beckett 36
The Irish Parliament and the Regulatory Impulse, 1692-1800: The Case of the Coal Trade Eoin Magennis 54
The Private Bill Legislation of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800 James Kelly 73
The Irish Parliament and Print, 1660-1782 Toby Barnard 97
Censorship, Salvation and the Preaching of Francis Higgins: A Reconsideration of High Church Politics and Theology in the Early 18th Century Alex W. Barber 114
Securing the Hanoverian Succession in Ireland: Jacobites, Money and Men, 1714-16 Charles Ivar McGrath 140
The House of Lords and the Excise Crisis: The Storm and the Aftermath, 1733-5 Clyve Jones 160
The Attack of the Creolian Powers: West Indians at the Parliamentary Elections of Mid-Georgian Britain, 1754-74 Perry Gauci 201
Loyal Opposition? Prince Frederick and Parliament (1729-51) Robin Eagles 223
Peel's Other Repeal: The Test and Corporation Acts, 1828 Richard A. Gaunt 243
Index 263
