Evil Counsel: The<i>Propositions to Bridle the Impertinency of Parliament</i>and the Critique of Caroline Government in the Late 1620s

Millstone, Noah

doi:10.1086/661000

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“…112 Noah Millstone and David Coast have demonstrated that the trope of evil counsel continued to prove useful to critics of the crown in the reign of Charles I. 113 Even as late as the 1930s, Herbert Morrison used the notion to explain away Edward, duke of Windsor's apparent sympathy for Nazism. 114 Those genuinely worried about evil counsel might take comfort from the proverb malum consilium consultori pessimum (evil counsel is most ruinous to the counsellor), based on the belief that chickens always come home to roost.…”

Section: IVmentioning

confidence: 99%

Royal Counsel in Tudor England, 1485–1603

McGovern

2021

Hist. J.

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Royal counsel in Tudor England has been a central historiographical theme for over twenty years. This review offers a critical assessment of the state of the field. It appraises historical and literary scholarship on both the theory and practice of royal counsel. Among other themes, it discusses the concepts of evil counsel and arcana imperii. The review concludes by suggesting priorities for future enquiry, including the need to think more carefully about which areas of English government still required royal decision-making, and therefore counsel, in this period. The article also charts the rise of conciliar ‘government under the king but not by the king’ and shows that Tudor counsel often happened the wrong way around: the monarch advised the privy council on the direction of state policy. It calls for a new administrative history in early modern studies, with a renewed focus on institutions and their procedures, to complement existing strengths in the fields of political culture and political thought.

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Section: IVmentioning

confidence: 99%

Royal Counsel in Tudor England, 1485–1603

McGovern

2021

Hist. J.

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“…Two veterans of the History of Parliament Trust, Kyle (2012) and Peacey (2013), have each argued that the place of Other recent work on political culture and practice in early modern England describes changes for which the capital was crucial. The circulation of political information, whether through rumor, manuscript, or print, and the kinds of political behaviors that this facilitated, shows how London's position as both the hub of England's communication network and the site of government, court, archives, and much of the political elite, all conditioned how news was made, circulated, and discussed (Coast, 2014;Hunt, 2014;McGee, 2015;Millstone, 2011Millstone, , 2016. Recent work also shows that during the late-Stuart period London remained crucial to key political and religious changes.…”

Section: Urban Spacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

London and England's early modernity: A review of recent scholarship

Cavert

2018

History Compass

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A review of the historical literature on London during the early modern period (ca. 1500–1800) published between 2010 and 2017, focusing on themes of modernization and London's role in associated changes. London's central contribution to processes of modernization was once a historiographical commonplace, but recent work has avoided such narratives in its discussions of social relations, crime and policing, gender roles, cosmopolitanism and global trade, and urban and suburban spaces and environments. By contrast, studies that have stressed such processes, in particular work describing political culture and practice as well as sexual behaviors, have chosen not to stress London's importance, despite its prominent place in their stories.

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“…Lotteries were supposed to avoid some of the problems of alternative methods of revenue‐raising such as taxes and the sale of honours and offices. Millstone provides an insight into a royal scandal from 1629, when a document was discovered which purported to show that the king was intent on becoming financially independent of Parliament.…”

Section: –1700mentioning

confidence: 99%