Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: The Peerage and the House of Lords in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- 2 Parliamentary Management, Men-of-Business and the House of Lords, 1640-49 -- 3 The Role of Privy Councillors in the House of Lords, 1660-1681 -- 4 'Venice Preserved -- or A Plot Discovered9: The Political and Social Context of the Peerage Bill of 1719 -- 5 The House of Lords and British Foreign Policy, 1720-48 -- 6 The Bishops at Westminster in the Mid-Eighteenth Century -- 7 The House of Lords in the 1760s -- 8 The House of Lords in the Age of the American Revolution -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.