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- Title
Peers and Placemen: Lord Keeper Cowper's Notes on the Debate on the Place Clause in the Regency...
- Authors
Hayton, David; Jones, Clyve
- Abstract
Focuses on the Regency Bill of 1705 aimed at allaying public fear over the practical arrangements for facilitating the Hanoverian succession. Role of Lord Keeper William Cowper in the debates regarding the bill's passage; Career history; Opposition of the Whig Party to the influence of placemen, pensioners and other court dependants; Cowper's notes on the debates.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; HANOVER, House of; HISTORY of legislation; WHIG Party (Great Britain); COWPER, William, 1731-1800; HISTORY of political parties
- Publication
Parliamentary History, 1999, Vol 18, Issue 1, p65
- ISSN
0264-2824
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1750-0206.1999.tb00358.x