Parliament, Politics and Policy in Britain and Ireland, c.1680 - 1832 Essays in Honour of D.W. Hayton Parliamentary History Book Series

This book employs a variety of methodologies, including thematic survey, biographical enquiry, and specific study, to examine British and Irish parliamentary history between the exclusion crisis and the Great Reform Act.

• Casts new light on familiar themes and also introduces previously unexplored issues
• Discusses important topics and figures of the period, such as Robert Peel; Frederick, Prince of Wales; Irish regulation of trade; the Excise Crisis; the impact of the West Indies on the mid-Georgian elections; and the Glorious Revolution of 1688
• Utilizes the Irish Legislation Database to re-examine the history of the pre-Union Irish parliament
• Unites the scholarship of prominent figures in the field with the voices of younger historians

List of Contributors vi

Abbreviations ix

Foreword Clyve Jones James Kelly 1

W.A. Speck David W. Hayton 3

Bibliography of the Published Works of D.W. Hayton Clyve Jones Richard A. Gaunt 8

Samuel Pcpys and Corruption Mark Knights 19

The Glorious Revolution, Parliament, and the Making of the First Industrial Nation John Beckett 36

The Irish Parliament and the Regulatory Impulse, 1692-1800: The Case of the Coal Trade Eoin Magennis 54

The Private Bill Legislation of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800 James Kelly 73

The Irish Parliament and Print, 1660-1782 Toby Barnard 97

Censorship, Salvation and the Preaching of Francis Higgins: A Reconsideration of High Church Politics and Theology in the Early 18th Century Alex W. Barber 114

Securing the Hanoverian Succession in Ireland: Jacobites, Money and Men, 1714-16 Charles Ivar McGrath 140

The House of Lords and the Excise Crisis: The Storm and the Aftermath, 1733-5 Clyve Jones 160

The Attack of the Creolian Powers: West Indians at the Parliamentary Elections of Mid-Georgian Britain, 1754-74 Perry Gauci 201

Loyal Opposition? Prince Frederick and Parliament (1729-51) Robin Eagles 223

Peel's Other Repeal: The Test and Corporation Acts, 1828 Richard A. Gaunt 243

Index 263

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).