The House of Lords in the Parliaments of Edward VI and Mary I : An Institutional Study

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In the past the House of Lords has been the Cinderella of parliamentary history. This is a systematic institutional study of the sixteenth-century Upper House. Not only does it chart its composition and quality, its record of attendance, activity and conflicting centrifugal and centripetal forces, it also examines the role of the legal assistants.