Parliament, Politics and Policy in Britain and Ireland, c.1680 - 1832

Clyve Jones is Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research and has been Editor of Parliamentary History since 1986. Previously he was Reader in Modern History at the University of London and Collection Development Librarian in the Institute of Historical Research. He has published extensively on the history of the House of Lords and of the peerage in the early eighteenth century. His most recent publications include A Short History of Parliament: England, Britain, the United Kingdom, Scotland and Ireland (2009) and British Politics in the Age of Holmes: Geoffrey Holmes's "British Politics in the Age of Anne" 40 Years On (Wiley, 2009).James Kelly is Cregan Professor of History at St. Patrick’s College, Dublin City University, Ireland. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and of the Irish Manuscripts Commission and currently serves as Editor of Analecta Hibernica and Joint Editor of Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. He is past-President of the Irish Historical Society and The Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society. He is the author or editor of several books on Irish history, including most recently, Clubs and Societies in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (2010) and Sir Richard Musgrave, 1746-1818: Ultra-Protestant Ideologue (2009).

• List of Contributors viAbbreviations ixForeword Clyve Jones James Kelly 1W.A. Speck David W. Hayton 3Bibliography of the Published Works of D.W. Hayton Clyve Jones Richard A. Gaunt 8Samuel Pcpys and Corruption Mark Knights 19The Glorious Revolution, Parliament, and the Making of the First Industrial Nation John Beckett 36The Irish Parliament and the Regulatory Impulse, 1692-1800: The Case of the Coal Trade Eoin Magennis 54The Private Bill Legislation of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800 James Kelly 73The Irish Parliament and Print, 1660-1782 Toby Barnard 97Censorship, Salvation and the Preaching of Francis Higgins: A Reconsideration of High Church Politics and Theology in the Early 18th Century Alex W. Barber 114Securing the Hanoverian Succession in Ireland: Jacobites, Money and Men, 1714-16 Charles Ivar McGrath 140The House of Lords and the Excise Crisis: The Storm and the Aftermath, 1733-5 Clyve Jones 160The Attack of the Creolian Powers: West Indians at the Parliamentary Elections of Mid-Georgian Britain, 1754-74 Perry Gauci 201Loyal Opposition? Prince Frederick and Parliament (1729-51) Robin Eagles 223Peel's Other Repeal: The Test and Corporation Acts, 1828 Richard A. Gaunt 243Index 263