The Crown and Its Records

The Crown and Its Records PDF

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Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2023-10-23

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 3110791463

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Archives are popularly seen as liminal, obscure spaces -- a perception far removed from the early modern reality. This examination of the central English archival system in the period before 1700 highlights the role played by the public records repositories in furnishing precedents for the constitutional struggle between Crown and Parliament. It traces the deployment of archival research in these controversies by three individuals who were at various points occupied with the keeping of records: Sir Robert Cotton, John Selden, and William Prynne. The book concludes by investigating the secretive State Paper Office, home of the arcana imperii, and its involvement in the government's intelligence network: notably the engagement of its most prominent Keeper Sir Thomas Wilson in judicial and political intrigue on behalf of the Crown.

The Politics of the Ancient Constitution

The Politics of the Ancient Constitution PDF

Author: Glenn Burgess

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 1992-09-02

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1349222631

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The Politics of the Ancient Constitution is a close examination of the political ideas of common lawyers in early Stuart England, and includes important surveys of the ideas of Sir Edward Coke and John Selden. It provides an original interpretation of the lawyers' theory of the ancient constitution and on this basis it provides a novel interpretation of the basic structure of political thought and ideology in pre-Civil War England. In this way the book is able to make a substantial contribution to debates over the ideological origins of the English Revolution.

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