Civic Government in Chester, 1642–1660

Forster, G. C. F.

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“…In addition, the administrative autonomy of Farm Grant boroughs restricted royal interference and enabled them to organize military action against the king (c.f. Lindley, 1992;Forster, 2000;Hillmann, 2008).…”

Section: The Civil Warmentioning

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How Merchant Towns Shaped Parliaments: From the Norman Conquest of England to the Great Reform Act

Angelucci¹,

Meraglia

Voigtländer

2022

American Economic Review

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We study the emergence of urban self-governance in the late medieval period. We focus on England after the Norman Conquest of 1066, building a novel comprehensive dataset of 554 medieval towns. During the Commercial Revolution (twelfth to thirteenth centuries), many merchant towns obtained Farm Grants: the right of self-governed tax collection and law enforcement. Self-governance, in turn, was a stepping stone for parliamentary representation: Farm Grant towns were much more likely to be summoned directly to the medieval English Parliament than otherwise similar towns. We also show that self-governed towns strengthened the role of Parliament and shaped national institutions over the subsequent centuries. (JEL D02, D72, D73, K11, K34, N43, N93)

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Section: The Civil Warmentioning

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How Merchant Towns Shaped Parliaments: From the Norman Conquest of England to the Great Reform Act

Angelucci¹,

Meraglia

Voigtländer

2022

American Economic Review

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Public Ritual and the Proclamation of Richard Cromwell as Lord Protector in English Towns, September 1658

Calladine

2017

Hist. J.

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The requirement to proclaim Richard Cromwell lord protector in September 1658 forced town leaders to engage with an unstable political context through the production of a large-scale public event. This article examines the ceremonies used in a range of provincial towns to offer a new perspective on urban culture in 1650s England. By analysing both contemporary print and the records of civic government, it reveals how urban inhabitants could maintain a variety of performative responses to state directive whilst approaching the moment of succession actively and pragmatically to confront issues specific to their respective locales. Crucially, there was no standard ritual experience and civic authorities remained relatively free to modify existing codes and apply them in the way/s that made most sense to their particular situation. In addition to confirming the essentially ambiguous nature of ceremonial expectation in this context, the findings presented in this article complicate our understanding of urban government during the last months of the protectorate by emphasizing the capacity for towns of varied religious and/or political complexion to use public ritual to further corporate interests and negotiate a range of specific concerns in both a national and a local framework.

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How Merchant Towns Shaped Parliaments: From the Norman Conquest of England to the Great Reform Act

Angelucci¹,

Meraglia

Voigtländer

2017

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Civic Government in Chester, 1642–1660

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How Merchant Towns Shaped Parliaments: From the Norman Conquest of England to the Great Reform Act

How Merchant Towns Shaped Parliaments: From the Norman Conquest of England to the Great Reform Act

Public Ritual and the Proclamation of Richard Cromwell as Lord Protector in English Towns, September 1658

How Merchant Towns Shaped Parliaments: From the Norman Conquest of England to the Great Reform Act

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