Drafting the Nineteen Propositions, January to July 1642

Tyler, Colin

Abstract

This article analyses the drafting of the document eventually printed as the Nineteen Propositions. Section two addresses certain issues regarding the methods and concepts employed in the subsequent analysis, focusing on consensus-building, constitutional leanings and the drafting of parliamentary declarations in early 1642. Section three examines the origins of the Nineteen Propositions in the draft Declaration of Ways and Means (January 1642) (hereafter cited as the Ways). Section four traces the emergence of the Declaration Concerning Grievances and Remedies (hereafter cited as the Grievances) from the Ways (January–February). Section five examines the junta's efforts to overcome the Lords' prevarication over passing the Grievances (February–May). Section six examines the emergence of the initial draft of the Nineteen Propositions from the Grievances (24–7 May). Section seven analyses the 28 May draft, while section eight explores the amendment of that draft (31 May and 1 June). Section nine examines parliament's abortive attempts to revise the Nineteen Propositions in light of His Majesty's Answer to the XIX Propositions (21 June–2 July). It is concluded that, contrary to the received view, the text of the Nineteen Propositions began to emerge in January rather than May 1642, and that the junta in the Commons rather than the Lords drove this process. The three appendices identify, respectively, the constitutional leanings of the relevant parliamentarians, the parts of the text of the Ways that were repeated in the Grievances, and dates on which the various parts of the final text of the Nineteen Propositions were written.

Citation

Tyler, C. (2012). Drafting the Nineteen Propositions, January to July 1642. Parliamentary History, 31(3), 263-312. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1750-0206.2012.00345.x

• Online Publication Date: Oct 15, 2012
• Publication Date: Oct 1, 2012
• Deposit Date: Nov 13, 2014
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 13, 2014
• Journal: Parliamentary history
• Print ISSN: 0264-2824
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 31
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 263-312
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1750-0206.2012.00345.x
• Keywords: Charles I; Consensus-building; Declaration Concerning Grievances and Rem-edies; Declaration of Ways and Means; His Majesty’s Answer to the XIX Propositions; House of Commons; House of Lords; The junta; Parliamentary allegiances and leanings; Parliamenta
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• Additional Information: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: TYLER, C. (2012), Drafting the Nineteen Propositions, January–July 1642. Parliamentary History, 31: 263–312, which has been published in final form at doi:10.1111/j.1750-0206.2012.00345.x . This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.
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