1. Sources

    As in other sections of the History one footnote only (if necessary) has been attached to each paragraph of the text, and many standard sources are not cited at all.

  2. Appendix IX: Franchises and Contested Elections

    In 1660 there were 52 counties and 215 parliamentary boroughs, returning a total of 507 Members.

  3. Appendix VIII: Malefactors and Lunatics

    Many Members fell foul of the authorities at some point in their careers and only the more spectacular misdeeds can be mentioned here.

  4. Appendix VII: MPs and the Commissions of the Peace

    Immediately before the Restoration, commissions were issued for all the ‘counties, cities, towns and liberties within England and Wales as they were approved of and allowed by the late Parliament a

  5. Appendix VI: Roman Catholics and Crypto-Catholics

    Roman Catholics and Crypto-Catholics

     

    William Barlow

  6. Appendix V: Officers of State

    (usually referred to in the Journals by the title of their appointment)

     

    SECRETARIES OF STATE

  7. Appendix IV: Chairmen of the Committees of Supply and Ways and Means

    During this period the modern system of passing financial measures through the Commons became standard practice.

  8. Appendix III: Chairmen of the Committess of Elections and Privileges

    1660

    Edward Turnor 26 Apr.-29 Dec. 1660

     

    1661-78

  9. Appendix II: Speakers of the House of Commons

    1689

  10. Appendix I: Dates of Parliaments
    Year

    Date

    for which

    summoned

  11. II. The Politics of Members

    The uncritical assumption of nineteenth-century historians that the party system as they knew it in their own time was directly prefigured in the politics of the Restoration, should not be allowed

  12. 1660-1690 Survey
  13. Method

    These volumes, in accordance with the practice of the History of Parliament, consist of an introductory survey with appendices, accounts of the constituencies, and a biographical dictionar

  14. I. The Composition of the House

    The number of men elected to the House of Commons in the period covered by these volumes was 2,040. This includes ten who died or were raised to the peerage before taking their seats.

  15. 1660-1690 Parliaments