Institutional Practice and Memory: Parliamentary People, Records and Histories: Essays in Honour of Sir John Sainty

Honouring the contribution made to British parliamentary history by one of its most celebrated administrators, this "festschrift" for Sir John Sainty, who served as clerk of the parliaments from 1983-1990, features an unrivalled selection of specialist essays on the administrative procedures of Britain's legislature. Includes detailed and highly specialized research on the British parliament's administrative procedures Features revealing essays on renowned parliamentary functionaries including Inigo Jones Collects a wealth of new learning culled from the archives of parliament Covers the detail of key proposals for parliamentary reform in the 'post-revolution administration'. Contents: Bibliography of the published works of Sir John Sainty / Clive Jones -- Sir John Sainty and the House of Lords, 1959-90 / Michael Pownall -- Inigo Jones, the surveyors of the works and the "Parliament House" / Alasdair Hawkyard -- Disorderly debates : noise and gesture in the 17th-century House of Commons / Jason Peacey -- Divisions, tellers and management in the 17th-century House of Commons / Paul Seaward -- Insight into the work of the clerks of the House of Lords : some case studies during John Walker Senior's occupancy of the Office of Clerk Assistant, 1670-80 / Clyve Jones -- "If he deserves it" : William of Orange's pre-revolution British contacts and Gilbert Burnet's proposals for the post-revolution administration / Robin Eagles -- Estate acts of Parliament, 1740-1800 / Michael McCahill -- The dying embers of an outdated privilege : the 1935 trial of Lord de Clifford in the House of Lords / Ruth Paley -- Sir Lewis Namier, Sir John Neale and the shaping of the history of Parliament / D.W. Hayton -- Some parliamentary material in the early records of the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery / Hannes Kleineke -- Additional docquets of commissions of the peace from the papers of Lord Keeper Coventry (1625-40) in the Worcestershire Record Office / Jan Broadway, Richard Cust and Stephen K. Roberts -- The missing official proxy records of the house of Lords for 1661-2 / Robin Eagles and Clyve Jones -- (More) division lists from the Ailesbury manuscripts : On the "church in danger" (1705), The septennial bill and Forfeited estates of Jacobites (1716) / Charles Littleton.