The book has been well planned, with thirteen substantive chapters and a very long and valuable introduction. There is extensive cross-referencing, and evidence of discussion among contributors at the workshops that preceded the book. This book thus gives political historians much to ponder. It is particularly thought-provoking to see counsel placed, as it often is here, in a broader context.

• 1: JACQUELINE ROSE: The Problem of Political Counsel in Medieval and Early Modern England and Scotland2: MICHAEL BROWN: 'Lele consail for the comoun profite': Kings, Guardians and Councils in the Scottish Kingdom, c.1250-14503: JOHN WATTS: Counsel and the King's Council in England, c.1340-c.15404: JEREMY CATTO: Counsel and Conscience in Lancastrian England5: ELIZA HARTRICH: Locality, Polity and the Politics of Counsel: Royal and Urban Councils in England, 1420-14296: CLAIRE HAWES: 'Perverst counsale'? Rebellion, Satire and the Politics of Advice in Fifteenth-Century Scotland7: RICHARD REX: Councils, Counsel and Consensus in Henry VIII's Reformation8: SUSAN DORAN: Elizabeth I and Counsel9: PAULINA KEWES: 'Jerusalem thou dydst promise to buylde up': Kingship, Counsel and Early Elizabethan Drama10: ALAN R. MACDONALD: Consultation, Counsel and the 'Early Stuart Period' in Scotland11: ALEXANDER HASKELL: Councils, Providence and Political Legitimacy in Early Virginia12: ROGER A. MASON: Counsel and Covenant: Aristocratic Conciliarism and the Scottish Revolution13: JACQUELINE ROSE: Sir Edward Hyde and the Problem of Counsel in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Royalist Thought14: JACQUELINE ROSE: Councils, Counsel and the Seventeenth-Century Composite State

The book has been well planned, with thirteen substantive chapters and a very long and valuable introduction. There is extensive cross-referencing, and evidence of discussion among contributors at the workshops that preceded the book. This book thus gives political historians much to ponder. It is particularly thought-provoking to see counsel placed, as it often is here, in a broader context.

• 1: JACQUELINE ROSE: The Problem of Political Counsel in Medieval and Early Modern England and Scotland2: MICHAEL BROWN: 'Lele consail for the comoun profite': Kings, Guardians and Councils in the Scottish Kingdom, c.1250-14503: JOHN WATTS: Counsel and the King's Council in England, c.1340-c.15404: JEREMY CATTO: Counsel and Conscience in Lancastrian England5: ELIZA HARTRICH: Locality, Polity and the Politics of Counsel: Royal and Urban Councils in England, 1420-14296: CLAIRE HAWES: 'Perverst counsale'? Rebellion, Satire and the Politics of Advice in Fifteenth-Century Scotland7: RICHARD REX: Councils, Counsel and Consensus in Henry VIII's Reformation8: SUSAN DORAN: Elizabeth I and Counsel9: PAULINA KEWES: 'Jerusalem thou dydst promise to buylde up': Kingship, Counsel and Early Elizabethan Drama10: ALAN R. MACDONALD: Consultation, Counsel and the 'Early Stuart Period' in Scotland11: ALEXANDER HASKELL: Councils, Providence and Political Legitimacy in Early Virginia12: ROGER A. MASON: Counsel and Covenant: Aristocratic Conciliarism and the Scottish Revolution13: JACQUELINE ROSE: Sir Edward Hyde and the Problem of Counsel in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Royalist Thought14: JACQUELINE ROSE: Councils, Counsel and the Seventeenth-Century Composite State

The book has been well planned, with thirteen substantive chapters and a very long and valuable introduction. There is extensive cross-referencing, and evidence of discussion among contributors at the workshops that preceded the book. This book thus gives political historians much to ponder. It is particularly thought-provoking to see counsel placed, as it often is here, in a broader context.

• 1: JACQUELINE ROSE: The Problem of Political Counsel in Medieval and Early Modern England and Scotland2: MICHAEL BROWN: 'Lele consail for the comoun profite': Kings, Guardians and Councils in the Scottish Kingdom, c.1250-14503: JOHN WATTS: Counsel and the King's Council in England, c.1340-c.15404: JEREMY CATTO: Counsel and Conscience in Lancastrian England5: ELIZA HARTRICH: Locality, Polity and the Politics of Counsel: Royal and Urban Councils in England, 1420-14296: CLAIRE HAWES: 'Perverst counsale'? Rebellion, Satire and the Politics of Advice in Fifteenth-Century Scotland7: RICHARD REX: Councils, Counsel and Consensus in Henry VIII's Reformation8: SUSAN DORAN: Elizabeth I and Counsel9: PAULINA KEWES: 'Jerusalem thou dydst promise to buylde up': Kingship, Counsel and Early Elizabethan Drama10: ALAN R. MACDONALD: Consultation, Counsel and the 'Early Stuart Period' in Scotland11: ALEXANDER HASKELL: Councils, Providence and Political Legitimacy in Early Virginia12: ROGER A. MASON: Counsel and Covenant: Aristocratic Conciliarism and the Scottish Revolution13: JACQUELINE ROSE: Sir Edward Hyde and the Problem of Counsel in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Royalist Thought14: JACQUELINE ROSE: Councils, Counsel and the Seventeenth-Century Composite State