University Representation in England, 1604–1690

Millicent Barton Rex

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040758243
• Subtopic: History of Education
• Index: History

Originally published in 1954, this work is a history of university representation in England from its beginning in 1604, when King James first gave the two universities the right to send two members each to the House of Commons, to the close of the Convention Parliament of 1688–89. It takes up the question of electoral procedures in university elections, and describes the election campaigns and the political issues in which the universities were involved, the individual university members and their careers. A careful analysis is made from time to time to determine the trends of university politics and personnel throughout the great events of the century. Such matters as royal domination, and freedom of election in the university constituencies, contributions made by university members to public service and to learning (or their failure to contribute) are constantly kept before the reader. It deals with university representation as part of the history of a century that is one of the most notable in England's constitutional development.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• Note on Chronology
• Abbreviations
• Table of Contents
• I. The Origins of University Representation
• II. The First University Burgesses
• III. Electoral Procedures in University Representation
• IV. The Period of Royal Influence, 1621–1640
• V. Retrospect, 1604–1640
• VI. The University Representatives in the Long Parliament
• VII. Decline and Revival, 1653–1660
• VIII. Retrospect, 1640–1660
• IX. The University Members in the Cavalier Parliament
• X. The First Exclusion Parliament
• XI. The Later Exclusion Parliaments, 1679–1681
• XII. University Representation through Absolutism and Revolution, 1685–1690
• XIII. Retrospect, 1660–1690
• XIV. Conclusion
• I. Sir Edward Coke’s Letter to the University of Cambridge
• II. James I’s Letters Patent to Cambridge University (De Burgensibus)
• III. Cambridge Letters, 1620/1
• IV. An Account of the Election at Oxford, 1625/6
• V. Sir Robert Naunton’s Absence from Parliament
• VI. Letter concerning the Candidacy of Edward Montague
• VII. The Method of Voting in the Oxford Election of 1673/4
• VIII. University Representatives, 1604–89
• Glossary
• Note on Sources
• Bibliography
• Index
• Studies presented to the International Commission for the History of Representive and Parliamentary Institutions