TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Part I. Parliament in the Later Middle Ages -- I. ENGLAND IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES -- II. THE FORM AND COMPOSITION OF PARLIAMENT -- llI. ELECTED, ELECTORS, AND ELECTIONS -- IV. POWERS, PROCEDURE, AND PRIVILEGES -- V. PARLIAMENT AT WORK: ACTUAL SESSIONS -- VI. THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE "MEN OF LAW" -- Part II. Parliament in the Tudor Period -- VII. ENGLAND IN THE AGE OF THE TUDORS -- VIII. CONTINUITY PLUS PROGRESS -- IX. PARLIAMENT IN THE REIGN OF ELIZABETH I -- X. PARLIAMENT AT WORK: ACTUAL SESSIONS -- Part III. Parliament in the Early Stuart Period -- XI. THE ENGLAND OF THE EARLY STUARTS -- XII. THE WINNING OF THE INITIATIVE -- XIII. THE OPPOSITION IN ACTION, 1621 -- XIV. CHARLES I AND HIS PARLIAMENTS, 1625-1629 -- XV. THE LONG PARLIAMENT COMES TO THE RESCUE -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.