The House of Lords During the Civil War (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The House of Lords During the Civil WarMuch of this book was written many years before the present controversy about the powers and the use fulness of the House of Lords arose. Parts of Chapters V. And VIII. Appeared in M acmt'llan's Magazine during 1894 - 5, and a few pages of Chapter VIII. Are an abridg ment of certain passages in The Last Years of the Pro tectorate.' It seemed to me desirable, at the risk of some repetition, to put together a consecutive account of the political action of the peerage during the first half of the seventeenth century, and of the vicissitudes through which the House of Lords passed in those troubled times. Between 1603 and 1640 the peerage took an important, and at moments a decisive, part in the defence of the constitution against the Crown. Between 1640 and 1649 every kind of expedient was tried or discussed in order to make the policy of the Upper House conform to that of the Lower - coercion and pur gation of the Upper House, restriction of the power of the Crown to create new peers, amalgamation of the two Houses, limitation or abolition of the veto of the Lords, and finally the abolition of the House itself. The next ten years proved the drawbacks of single chamber government and the difficulty of creating a new Secondevents, and those who witnessed them, speak for them selves, and to set forth their Opinions and arguments for the instruction of their descendants.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.