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R.B. Dobson, 24 February 1994
The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1386-1421
edited by J.S. Roskell, Linda Clark and Carole Rawcliffe.
Alan Sutton, 3500 pp., £275, February 1993,9780862999438 Show More
edited by J.S. Roskell, Linda Clark and Carole Rawcliffe.
Alan Sutton, 3500 pp., £275, February 1993,
“... historians will ever manage to improve more than very marginally on the labours of Linda Clark, Carole Rawcliffe and their colleagues. In his introductory survey, Roskell reminds us that by 1386 it was already ‘unthinkable’ that an English Parliament should assemble without the presence of many representatives from shires and boroughs. It must be ... ”