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dc.contributor.authorPenman, Michael Aen_UK
dc.contributor.editorBrown, Keith Men_UK
dc.contributor.editorMann, A Jen_UK
dc.contributor.editorMacDonald, Alan Ren_UK
dc.contributor.editorTanner, Roland Jen_UK
dc.date.accessioned2012-09-03T15:59:47Z-
dc.date.available2012-09-03T15:59:47Z-
dc.date.issued2004en_UK
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/3436-
dc.description.abstractFirst paragraph: Perhaps like no other king of Scots’ reign, the long rule of the second and last Bruce monarch, David II (1329-71), has left striking proof that parliament or general council could be an extremely difficult and disputatious arena for the crown. These were assemblies which could be fueled at once by the factional agendas and animosities of king and key magnates as well as by the developing political outlook of the three estates. Admittedly, much of the evolving nature of this point of governmental contact sprang from David’s unpredictable and dramatic personal circumstances.1 Not only did David accede to the throne as a child faced with a lengthy minority but on at least two occasions following the king’s capture in battle against England in 1346 a Scottish parliament would record a point-blank refusal to countenance his plans for the admission of an English Prince to the Scottish succession. Faced instead with the treaty obligation of paying off an onerous ransom of 100,000 merks to Edward III in just ten years, David - after his release in 1357 - could be said to have found himself repeatedly in front of his subjects with crown-in-hand in search of revenues and approval of his diplomacy.2 In return for his subjects’ ‘consent and assent’ over these matters parliament or council seemed able, throughout the 1360s especially, to extract numerous statutory concessions with regard to their expectations and concerns for royal justice, the behaviour of crown officers, taxation assessment and expenditure, the royal demesne, prise, hospitality and foreign relations. Robert Rait, reading all of this in the fragmentary extant record of acts, was thus convinced that David was a ‘worthless man’ whose reign was an opportunity for ‘the development of a Parliamentary influence comparable to that exercised by the English Parliament in the later fourteenth century’: in Rait’s view, through the exchange of redress of subjects’ grievances for regular subsidy, by 1371 ‘Parliament or General Council succeeded in placing important restrictions upon the power of the sovereign….[and] the constitutional progress of the reign of David II was therefore the development of baronial rule over a weak monarch…the only possible leaders made an honest effort to prevent the king from wasting the revenues required for administrative purposes and for the payment of the ransom’.3en_UK
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherEdinburgh University Pressen_UK
dc.relationPenman MA (2004) Parliament Lost - Parliament Regained? The Three Estates in the Reign of David II, 1329-1371. In: Brown KM, Mann AJ, MacDonald AR & Tanner RJ (eds.) The History of the Scottish Parliament: Parliament and Politics in Scotland, 1235-1560. The Edinburgh History of the Scottish Parliament, Volume 1, 1. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 74-101. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-history-of-the-scottish-parliament-hb-766.htmlen_UK
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThe Edinburgh History of the Scottish Parliament, Volume 1, 1en_UK
dc.rightsThe publisher has granted permission for use of this book chapter in this Repository. The chapter, 'Parliament Lost - Parliament Regained? The Three Estates in the Reign of David II, 1329-1371' by Michael A. Penman, was first published in The History of the Scottish Parliament: Parliament and Politics in Scotland, 1235-1560, ed by Keith M Brown, A. J. Mann, Alan R. MacDonald and Ronald J Tanner and published by Edinburgh University Press. http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748614851en_UK
dc.subjectDavid II, King of Scotland, 1323 or 4-1370 or 1en_UK
dc.subjectScotland Kings and rulersen_UK
dc.subjectScotland Politics and government 14th centuryen_UK
dc.subjectParliamentary practice Scotland History To 1500en_UK
dc.titleParliament Lost - Parliament Regained? The Three Estates in the Reign of David II, 1329-1371en_UK
dc.typePart of book or chapter of booken_UK
dc.rights.embargodate2011-10-20en_UK
dc.citation.spage74en_UK
dc.citation.epage101en_UK
dc.citation.publicationstatusPublisheden_UK
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dc.identifier.urlhttps://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-history-of-the-scottish-parliament-hb-766.htmlen_UK
dc.author.emailm.a.penman@stir.ac.uken_UK
dc.citation.btitleThe History of the Scottish Parliament: Parliament and Politics in Scotland, 1235-1560en_UK
dc.citation.isbn978-0-7486-1485-1en_UK
dc.publisher.addressEdinburghen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationHistoryen_UK
dc.identifier.wtid824108en_UK
dc.contributor.orcid0000-0002-8697-9226en_UK
dcterms.dateAccepted2004-12-31en_UK
dc.date.filedepositdate2011-10-20en_UK
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local.rioxx.projectInternal Project|University of Stirling|https://isni.org/isni/0000000122484331en_UK
local.rioxx.contributorBrown, Keith M|en_UK
local.rioxx.contributorMann, A J|en_UK
local.rioxx.contributorMacDonald, Alan R|en_UK
local.rioxx.contributorTanner, Roland J|en_UK
local.rioxx.freetoreaddate2011-10-20en_UK
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