Parliamentarians at Law

Hannes Kleineke is a Senior Research Fellow at the History of Parliament, with a particular interest in the late medieval south-west of England. He has published a number of articles on the history of the medieval English Parliament, as well as on fifteenth-century England more generally, and was the joint winner of the 2006 Parliamentary History Prize.

"This is a valuable collection of documents, the standard of editing remorselessly high, and the editor, particularly in respect of wages cases, has left little for others to find." (The Ricardian XX, 2010)

• Part I: Introduction:Covering subjects including the parliamentary privilege of freedom from arrest; parliamentary elections; payments of MPs’ wages; the process of statutory regulation of parliamentary affairs; the royal law courts and their procedures Part II: The Texts:Parallel Latin/Middle English/French – Modern English edition ofa) Suits relating to parliamentary privilegeb) Suits relating to parliamentary electionsc) Select suits relating to the payment of Members of Parliamentd) Miscellaneous suitsPart III: Appendices:Calendar of suits relating to the payment of Members of Parliamenta) List of Peers and Members of the House of Commons mentioned in the textsb) List of Parliaments 1376-151