Richard A. Gaunt is associate professor in modern British history at the University of Nottingham and the current editor of Parliamentary History.D. W. Hayton is emeritus professor of history at Queen’s University, Belfast. He was joint-editor of Parliamentary History between 2015 and 2019.

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• List of Illustrations viNotes on Contributors viiD.W.Hayton,Clyve Jones and Parliamentary History 1Jason Peacey,The Duke’s Parrot:The Earl of Leicester,the King’s Children and the English Revolution 7Frances Harris, The ‘Little Palaces’ of St James’s: Ladies, Lords, and Political Association under the later Stuarts 25Graham Townend,Republicans,Unionists and Jacobites:The 1st Marquess of Tweeddale and the Restoration of the British Parliament 34Daniel Szechi,Playing with Fire:The 4th Duke of Hamilton’s Jacobite Politics and the Union 62Charles Littleton,‘’Tis Not in the Power of Words to Tell What My Heart Feels in Favour of You’;or,What the Ossulston Diary Does Not Reveal 85D.W.Hayton,Party and Management in the Irish House of Lords,1713–15 99Stuart Handley, The Members of the House of Lords and the Hanoverian Succession 126Robin Eagles, ‘A Reward for so Meritorious an Action’? Lord Hervey’s Summons to the House of Lords and Walpole’s Management of the Upper Chamber (1727–42) 143Richard Connors and Ben Gilding, ‘Hereditary Guardians of the Nation’: The House of Lords and the East India Company in the Age of the American Revolution 159Richard A. Gaunt, A Great Electioneer and His Motives Reconsidered: The 4th Duke of Newcastle 190John Beckett,Fixing the Membership of the Lords and Commons:The Case of Sir John Cam Hobhouse and the Nottingham By-Election,1834 205Bibliography of the Published Works of Clyve Jones 220Index 228