Reconstructing the opening session of the long parliament

Abstract

These seven volumes represent another landmark in the remarkable sequence of editions produced by the Yale Center for Parliamentary History. In the early 1920s, Wallace Notestein founded the project at Yale of editing all the surviving accounts of English parliamentary proceedings between the accession of James I and the outbreak of the Civil War. A series of highly distinguished scholarly editions has appeared, and these important volumes mark a further major step towards completion. Only the proceedings of the 1624 parliament still remain as yet unpublished. Under the expert direction of Maija Jansson, the Center has continued to perform a signal service to scholars of early seventeenthcentury England, and the present volumes more than live up to the very high standards set by their predecessor