1. Appendix V: The 1584 House of Commons

    Effective dates of sessions: 23 Nov.-21 Dec. 1584 4 Feb.-29 Mar. 1585

     

  2. Introduction to Survey

    There are 2,668 biographical articles in these volumes, but because of difficulties encountered in the identification of borough MPs (almost all the county Members have been identified) the precise

  3. 1558-1603 Survey
  4. Abbreviations
  5. Method

    In plan these volumes closely resemble the volumes published in 1964 and 1970.

  6. Appendix I: The 1559 House of Commons

    Effective dates of session: 25 Jan.-8 May 1559.

     

    Speaker: Sir Thomas Gargrave

    Clerk: John Seymour

  7. Appendix II: The 1563 House of Commons

    Effective dates of sessions: 12 Jan.-10 Apr. 1563 30 Sept. 1566-2 Jan. 1567

     

    Speakers:

  8. Appendix III: The 1571 House of Commons

    Effective dates of session: 2 Apr.-29 May 1571.

     

  9. Appendix IV: The 1572 House of Commons

    Effective dates of sessions: 8 May-30 June 1572 8 Feb.-15 Mar. 1576 16 Jan.-18 Mar. 1581

     

  10. Appendix VI: The 1586 House of Commons

    Effective dates of sessions: 29 Oct.-2 Dec. 1586 15 Feb.-23 Mar. 1587

     

  11. Appendix VII: the 1589 House of Commons

    Effective dates of session: 4 Feb.-29 Mar. 1589.

     

  12. Appendix IX: The 1597 House of Commons

    Effective dates of sessions: 24 Oct.-20 Dec. 1597 11 Jan.-9 Feb. 1598

     

  13. Appendix VIII: The 1593 House of Commons

    Effective dates of session: 19 Feb.-10 Apr. 1593.

     

  14. Appendix X: The 1601 House of Commons

    Effective dates of session: 27 Oct.-19 Dec. 1601.

     

  15. Appendix XI: The Role of the Marian Exiles

    Altogether there were 42 Marian exiles returned to the Parliaments of Elizabeth. Their numbers varied from 26 in 1563 to none at all in 1597 and 1601.

  16. I. The Men

    It has not been ascertained even approximately when most (64%) of the families who sent Members to Elizabethan Parliaments emerged from obscurity.

  17. II. The Members

    Although divers things that are due to be done here in Parliament might by means be reformed without Parliament, yet the Queen’s majesty, seeking in her consultations of importance cont

  18. 1558-1603 Parliaments