Great Britain, 1485 - 1714, Constitutional history, Politics and government, King Charles, James I, Henry Vii, Queen Katherine Howard, Reformation, Scotland, Charles II 

"The student of English history whose interest is primarily in constitutional and related institutional developments finds himself confronted with a very real problem in the quantity of material available for study and analysis. Between the Dooms of the Kings of the Heptarchy and the legislative acts of the present House of Commons the English people have had a variety of political, constitutional, and legal experiences..." - General introduction  

Contents:
1. Documents of the reign of Henry VII, England, 1485-1509 : Sir John Fortescue, the governance of England, c. 1470 ; Act of succession, 1485 ; Star chamber act, 1487 ; The bail act, 1487 ; Act for controlling the justices of the peace, 1489 ; Poynings' law, 1494 ; Statue of treason, 1495 ; Beggars act, 1495 ; Act for the feudal aid, 1504 ; Statute of liveries, 1504 -- 2. Documents of the reign of Henry VIII, England, 1509-1549 : Edmund Dudley, the tree of the commonwealth, c. 1509 ; Tunnage and poundage act, 1510 ; Poll tax act, 1512 ; The star chamber act, 1529 ; Act for the pardon of the clergy of Canterbury, 1531 ; Beggars act, 1531 ; Act in conditional restraint of annates, 1532 ; The submission of the clergy, 1532 ; Act in restraint of appeals to Rome, 1533 ; First succession act, 1534 ; Treasons act, 1534 ; Act in absolute restraint of annates, 1534 ; Act for the submission of the clergy, 1534 ; Act annexing first fruits and tenths to the crown, 1534 ; Act of supremacy, 1534 ; Dispensations act, 1534 ; Act for the establishing of the court of augmentations, 1536 ; Second succession act, 1536 ; Beggars act, 1536 ; Act against papal authority, 1536 ; Act for the dissolution of the lesser monasteries, 1536 ; Statute of uses, 1536 ; Act for the court of admiralty, 1536 ; Statute of proclamations, 1539 ; Act dissolving the greater monasteries, 1539 ; Statute of the six articles, 1539 ; Act dissolving the marriage with Anne of Cleves, 1540 ; Act of attainder of Queen Katherine Howard, 1542 ; Third succession act, 1543 -- 3. Documents of the reign of Edward VI, England, 1547-1553 : First treasons act, 1547 ; Act for the dissolution of the Chantries, 1547 ; Act for a subsidy of tunnage and poundage, 1547 ; Act for punishing vagabonds, 1547 ; First act of uniformity, 1549 ; Act concerning the improvement of commons and waste grounds, 1550 ; Second act of uniformity, 1552 ; Second treasons act of Edward VI, 1552 -- 4. Documents of the reign of Mary, England, 1553-1558 : First treasons act, 1553 ; First statute of repeal, 1553 ; Act reviving the heresy laws, 1554 ; Act concerning the regal power, 1554 ; Second statute of repeal, 1555 ; Second treasons act of Mary, 1555 ; Act against traitorous words, 1555 -- 5. Documents of the reign of Elizabeth, England, 1558-1603 : Sir Thomas Smith, De Republica Anglorum, 1589 ; Richard Hooker, the laws of ecclesiastical polity, c. 1597 ; Act of supremacy, 1559 ; Act of uniformity, 1559 ; Statute of apprentices, 1563 ; Second treasons act of Elizabeth, 1571 ; Act against bulls from Rome, 1571 ; Act for the relief of the poor, 1576 ; Act against reconciliation with Rome, 1581 ; Act for the surety of the queen's person, 1585 ; Act for redress of erroneous judgments, 1585 ; Act against Jesuits and seminary priests, 1585 ; Act against discontinuance of writs, 1589 ; Act against popish recusants, 1593 ; Act against seditious sectaries, 1593 ; Act to relieve the poor, 1598 ; Lay subsidy act, 1601 ; Clerical subsidy act, 1601.

6. Documents of the reign of James I, England, 1602-1625 : John Calvin, The institutes of the Christian religion, 1559 ; John Knox, The history of the Reformation in Scotland, 1566 ; The millenary petition, 1603 ; Act concerning Jesuits and seminary priests, 1604 ; Act of succession, 1604 ; Act for Commissioners of Union, 1604 ; Act for new executions against members of parliament, 1604 ; The apology and satisfaction of the House of Commons, 1604 ; James I: speech to parliament concerning regal power, 1610 ; Act for the better execution of justice, 1610 ; The oaths act, 1610 ; The house of commons petition of right, 1610 ; James I: Letter to the house of commons, 1621 ; The debate in commons relative to the privileges of that house, 1621 ; The protestation of the house of commons, 1621 ; The proclamation of James I dissolving the parliament, 1622 ; Act voiding monopolies, 1624 ; Subsidy act, 1624 -- 7. Documents of the reign of Charles I, England, 1625-1642 : Thomas Hobbes, The leviathan, 1651 ; Charles I: letter to the house of commons concerning subsidies,1626 ; Charles I: ordinance for the levying of customs, 1626 ; Chief justice Hyde's decision and reasoning in the case of the five knights, 1627 ; The petition of right, 1628 ; Charles I: speech to common in answer to the petition of right, 1628 ; The "three" (Eliot) resolutions passed by the house of commons in defiance of the king's dissolution of parliament, 1629 ; Writ of the king for the collection of ship money, 1634 ; King Charles's appeal to the judge for an opinion regarding the legality of a general ship money levy, and the decision of judges, 1637 ; Charles I: Speech to the two houses of the short parliament, 1640 ; Dissolution of the short parliament, 1640 ; The triennial act, 1641 ; Act to continue the existing parliament, 1641 ; Act for the subsidy of tunnage and poundage, 1641 ; Act abolishing the arbitrary (prerogative) courts, 1641 ; Act abolishing the court of high commission, 1641 ; The house of common's "grand remonstrance", 1641 ; Act abolishing the temporal power of the clergy, 1641 ; The militia ordinance, 1642 ; Royal proclamation concerning the militia ordinance, 1642; The declaration of purpose of lords and commons, 1642 ; The nineteen propositions, 1642 -- 8. Documents of the civil war and the interregnum, England, 1642-1660 : The solemn league and covenant, 1643 ; Ordinance appointing the committee for cooperation with Scotland, 1644 ; The self-denying ordinance, 1645 ; The heads of the proposals, 1647 ; An agreement of the people, 1649 ; Act abolishing the house of lords, 1649 ; Act abolishing kingship, 1649 ; Act establishing the commonwealth, 1649 ; Act erecting a high court of justice for the trial of Charles I, 1649 ; King Charles's statement to the trial court, 1649 ; Act for the control of trade and navigation, 1651 ; The instrument of government, 1653 ; Gerard Winstanley, An humble request to the ministers of both universities and to all lawyers in every inns-a-court, 1656 ; The humble petition and advice, 1657 -- 9. Documents of the reign of Charles II, England, 1660-1685 : The declaration of Breda, 1660 ; Act legalizing the convention parliament, 1660 ; Parliament's proclamation of Charles II as king, 1660 ; Act of indemnity and oblivion, 1660 ; Navigation act, 1660 ; Corporation act, 1661 ; Act amending the poor laws, 1662 ; Act of uniformity, 1662 ; Second militia act, 1662 ; The triennial act, 1664 ; The five mile act, 1664 ; Articles of impeachment against the earl of Clarendon, 1667 ; Conventicle act, 1670 ; The articles of the secret treaty of Dover, 1670 ; The first declaration of indulgence, 1672 ; Charles II: speech to parliament concerning the declaration of indulgence of 1672, 1673 ; The first test act, 1673 ; The second test act, 1678 ; The Habeas corpus act, 1679 ; The exclusion bill, 1680 ; Sir Robert Filmer, Patriarcha, or the natural power of kings, 1652 -- 10. Documents of the reign of James II, England, 1685-1688 : James II: speech to parliament concerning Catholic army officers, 1685 ; The reply of the house of commons to James' defense of Catholic army officers, 1685 ; Decision and reasoning of the court in the case of Godden vs. Hales, 1686 ; Declaration of indulgence, 1687 ; The petition of the seven bishops, 1688 ; Decision and reasoning of the judges in the case of the seven bishops, 1688 ; Secret letters of invitation to William and Mary to invade England and depose James II.

11. Documents of the reign of William and Mary, England, 1689-1702 : John Locke, Two treatises of government, 1690 ; The bill of rights, 1689 ; Act legalizing the convention, 1689 ; The mutiny act, 1689 ; Act abolishing hearth tax, 1689 ; The toleration act, 1689 ; Act suspending the Habeas corpus act, 1689 ; The act of recognition of William and Mary, 1690 ; The triennial act, 1694 ; An act for the continued sitting of parliament, 1695 ; The civil list act, 1698 ; The act of settlement, 1701 -- 12. Documents of the reign of Anne, England, 1702-1714 : Regency act, 1707 ; An act for the union of England and Scotland, 1707 ; Land tax act for Great Britain, 1707 ; Treasons act, 1708 ; The occasional conformity act, 1711 ; The parliamentary qualifications act, 1711 ; The schism act, 1714. 

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-351) and index.

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