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NUNC COCNOSCO EX PARTE TRENT UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/houseoflordsinmiOOOOpowe THE HOUSE OF LORDS IN THE MIDDLE AGES THE HOUSE OF LORDS IN THE MIDDLE AGES A History of the English House of Lords to 1540 J. ENOCH POWELL P.C., M.A.(Cantab.) Sometime Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and KEITH WALLIS Weidenfeld and Nicolson 5 Winsley Street London W1 O IVJ \b*\ O ' \ (o © 1968 by J. Enoch Powell and Keith Wallis Made and printed in Great Britain by William Clowes and Sons, Limited, London and Beccles CONTENTS page Foreword ix Introduction xi 1 Witenagemot 1 2 The king’s court after the Conquest 12 3 The Normanisation of the king’s court 27 4 The court of the Conqueror’s sons 49 5 The Anarchy: earldoms for sale 64 6 Henry II: the organiser and his council 73 7 The council and the absent king 93 8 The loss of Normandy and the barons’ charter 107 9 The council of an infant king 130 10 The shires come to the council 154 11 The magnates, the council and parliament 183 12 Edward I’s parliament in peace and war 201 13 Summons to parliament 219 14 Opposition in parliament 232 15 The Carlisle parliament of 1307 249 16 The Ordainers and the baronage 264 17 The peers of the realm and the estates 282 18 Summons to parliament, 1307-30: stabilisation 303 19 The two ‘houses’ of parliament 316 20 Prelates and peerage 330 21 Recruitment of the peers 347 22 Lords and commons: the last years of Edward III 362 23 The minority of Richard II 380 24 Appeal and judgment of peers 401 25 A closed peerage, two houses and three estates 427 26 The lords in Henry Vi’s minority 451 27 Lancaster and York 479 28 Yorkist creations and rewards 507 29 The theory of creation by writ 527 111833 CONTENTS 30 The lords and the heralds 543 31 The reformation parliament 563 Appendix A. The case of Willoughby de Broke versus Latimer, 1497 (pp. 536-7) 583 Appendix B. An imaginary reconstruction of Edward I’s parliament (p. 555) 593 Notes on Plates 595 Abbreviations 605 Subject Index 607 Index of proper names 625 vi
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