Justice Upon Petition

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Bishop's Court
Bishop’s Court
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Chancery Decree
Chancery Proceedings
Civil War
civil war governance
Collect Ship Money
early Stuart politics
East Indies
English Civil War
English judiciary seventeenth century
English legal history
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Great Seal
House of Lords
King's Bench
King’s Bench
Laudian Bishops
legal reform in Stuart England
Long Parliament
Lord Chancellor Bacon
Lord Keeper
Lord Keeper Finch
Married Women
Michaelmas Term
Muscovy Company
parliamentary courts
Private petitions
Quare Impedit
Reformation of justice
Restoration England
Restoration period law
seventeenth-century litigation
Ship Money
Ship Money Levy
Short Parliament
Sir Giles Mompesson
Sir Samuel Barnardiston
Sir William Killigrew
Skinner's Case
Skinner’s Case
Star Chamber
Thomas Knyvett
Vexatious Litigation

Product details

  • ISBN 9780367609344
  • Weight: 430g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Sep 2022
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Originally published in 1991, this book traces the evolution of the House of Lords as a court for private litigation during the critically important years from 1621 to 1675. It offers new insights into contemporary politics, government and religion, adding an important dimension to our understanding of the House of Lords. This book is primary reading for advanced undergraduates and postgraduate students on courses on early Stuart England, the Civil War and Restoration history.

James S. Hart Jr.is the Chair of the Department of History at the University of Oklahomaand Hudson Professor.

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