History of the British Parliament

By no means was the fifteenth century a period of power for the British parliament, for during the Medieval Period of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the representative parliaments met intermittently and by no stable rule binding upon the king. Royal government and administration was becoming more complex and demanded a "clearing-house" for difficult questions which parliament could best provide. This was especially true when the king and his council were at its center. Parliament was then attended by the prelates, lay magnates, and commons. the parliament itself was thus a necessary complement to the normal administrative machinery (Roskell, Parliament and Pol

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re the clerk of parliament when he drew up his record of parliamentary activities at the end of the session, and they were also before whoever redrafted them to make them into acts or statutes, a work finally embodied in the statue roll. the history of parliament during this era has usually been written from the record of parliament rolls and statute rolls. Both sets have the virtues and defects of enrolled records generally, and enrollment looked to their preservation in compact and final form (Gray 34-35). The procedure for petitions in parliament was that they were generally written (though they could be oral under certain circumstances). Petitioners could write out their petitions themselves asking for redress or change, but this method had many drawbacks. Petitions at the time of Edward I were very short, showed many mistakes, and stated the request in simple terms. petitions became more elaborate and precise from the time of Richard II on, contributing to the growth in fact of a petitionary diplomatic. This was a trend related to the fact that it was becoming more difficult to secure an answer, so unless a petitioner saw to it that his petition was sufficiently complimentary or precise, it might be delayed or ignored
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