Parliament, Print and Corruption in Later Stuart Britain

Knights, Mark

doi:10.1111/j.1750-0206.2007.tb00628.x

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“…Knights (2021) highlights that history offers important insights to the study of corruption (Kroeze et al ., 2018), quality of government (Knights, 2015) and fraud due to incompetence (Antonelli et al ., 2021). Knights (2014) develops ideas from Handley and Hayton (2002) to examine parliamentary corruption, noting the political motivations behind criticisms of Pepys and campaigns against corruption.…”

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“…Travits (2010) argues that whilst economists and political scientists have researched and interpreted cross-national differences of the levels of perceived corruption, research has mainly focused on aspects of structure. Knights (2021) highlights that history offers important insights to the study of corruption (Kroeze et al, 2018), quality of government (Knights, 2015) and fraud due to incompetence (Antonelli et al, 2021). Knights (2014) develops ideas from Handley and Hayton (2002) to examine parliamentary corruption, noting the political motivations behind criticisms of Pepys and campaigns against corruption.…”

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“…4.1 Pepys's initial opinions on bribery and corruption Knights (2015) observes that Pepys knew corruption when he observed it in others and yet his own wealth was substantially higher than his salary and he claimed bribes were lawful presents from friends (Knights, 2014). Pepys takes great pains within his diary to justify why gifts of food, money and other things were gifts from friends rather than bribes for work being directed towards these friends.…”

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It's a gift – Samuel Pepys and Sir William Warren, an account of gifts, bribes and kickbacks

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2022

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Purpose This study aims to investigate an individual’s boundary crossing with regard to bribery, gifts and favouritism in rewarding contracts. Samuel Pepys’s diary was written in the 17th century and through detailed accounts gives insight into his inherent professionalism and his negative opinions around bribery but also his acceptance of “gifts” and awarding of contracts to “friends”.Design/methodology/approach The research uses a narrative approach to study a detailed and reflective personal diary identifying the diarist’s self-exploration and attitudes around the receipt of gifts and the awarding of contracts. This microhistory is presented with a narrative account of a case study of the relationship between the diarist, Pepys and a supplier, Sir W. Warren.Findings The diary illustrates how Pepys crosses these boundaries and how the lack of accountability within his role enables him to do this. This detailed study enables answers to questions that with time, legislation and lack of acceptability, have become more difficult to ask and to answer, about the crossing of boundaries and ethical decisions around the acceptance of bribes and kickbacks.Originality/value A contribution of this paper is the use of a diary, at least a diary as self-reflective as Pepys’s written up as a narrative account. The use of a detailed diary in an accounting microhistory of this nature gives insight and assists in answering difficult to ask questions around personal motivations for bribery and corruption and contributes in this area. The research contributes in developing research around boundaries and the corruption equation using the insight gleaned from this narrative account.

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From Marginalia to Juvenilia: Jane Austen's Vindication of the Stuarts

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While Jane Austen's 1791 History of England is generally considered a parody of Oliver Goldsmith's History of England: From the Earliest Times to the Death of George II and history writing, this essay asks readers to consider Austen's work as something beyond burlesque. In studying Austen's text as a vindication, and in terms of martyrology, it becomes clear that Austen takes seriously her task in defending Mary Queen of Scots and Charles I. In putting Austen's juvenilia into conversation with her marginalia written beforehand in the family's volume of Goldsmith's History of England and Vicesimus Knox's Elegant Extracts, this essay shows that Austen's vindication of the Stuarts extends beyond the History and Mary and Charles I as she defends the Stuart heirs, including the Jacobite pretenders. In addition to addressing Austen's Stuart sympathy, this combined analysis of the juvenilia and marginalia contextualizes Austen's adolescent writing in terms of generic multiplicity, as well as the distinction between private and public writing spheres.

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Parliament, Print and Corruption in Later Stuart Britain

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It's a gift – Samuel Pepys and Sir William Warren, an account of gifts, bribes and kickbacks

It's a gift – Samuel Pepys and Sir William Warren, an account of gifts, bribes and kickbacks

From Marginalia to Juvenilia: Jane Austen's Vindication of the Stuarts

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