Index 307
Petition of Right 229–31
Philip II 91, 92, 99, 105, 198
Philip IV 172
Plato 201
Plowden, Edmund
argument on impositions 104–5
Commentaries 108, 109, 110, 111, 212
error about Star Chamber 102
influence of 106, 183, 184–5, 193, 208, 215,
228, 229
succession tract 95–6, 109
Pocklington, John 248
Pocock, J. G. A. 198–9, 200
Pole, Reginald 71, 255
poor laws 70, 87
Popham, Sir John 106, 107
praemunire 43, 73, 131, 211
prayer books
of 1549 82, 116, 250
of 1552 85, 116
of 1559 116, 117, 137, 161, 165
of 1604 161
of 1636 (Scots) 250
precedents 11, 200, 201, 205, 227–8, 266
predestination
Caroline views 247, 252
Elizabethan views 131, 138, 166
Jacobean views 158, 159, 162–4, 166, 169–70,
175, 247
resistance to Arminianism 158, 159, 169–70,
175–6, 177–8, 241, 246, 259, 260
Prerogativa Regis, alleged statute of 45
prerogative
as ‘absolute’ 50, 91–2, 94, 104, 106, 108, 115,
133, 178, 202–3, 208, 227, 266
as ‘regal’ 55–8, 80
Bacon on 188–9
Coke on 207, 213–14, 229, 269
Doddridge on 189
equated with feudal rights 45, 183
Morrice on 111–12
part of law 267
Plowden on 110, 193
under Charles 223–32, 236–7, 239, 245, 267
under Edward 80, 82, 101
under Elizabeth 80, 93–4, 98–9, 105–8,
115–16, 117, 133–4, 191–4, 201
under Henry VIII 55–8, 80, 81–2
under James 166, 196, 201–4, 206, 213–14,
221, 245
under Mary 80, 91–3, 104, 105, 201, 234
presbyterianism 134, 136, 137, 142–3, 157
English 117, 119, 123, 125–8
Prideaux, John 246
Pride’s Purge 272
Privy Chamber 36
privy seal 40, 94
prohibitions 211
prophesyings 120, 135
protections 94, 194
Protestation 220–1
Prynne, William 254
Ptolemy of Lucca 25–6
Pufendorf, Samuel 275–6, 279
puritans
Caroline 246, 252, 255, 256–7, 271
Elizabethan 116–19, 122–4, 125–9, 130, 137–8,
140–1
English attitudes to 83, 91
Jacobean 157–8, 159, 161–2, 165–6, 170, 176–8,
181, 246
on monopolies 193
and parliamentarianism 1–3, 261–3
purveyance 196
Pym, John 232, 259
Rainolds, John 162, 163
Raleigh, Sir Walter 218–19
Rastell, John 39
readings 11
reason, legal concept of
Cicero on 184, 186
Coke on 187, 207–8, 210–11, 215
early Stuart views 187, 199, 200, 204–5, 210,
215, 228
Elizabethan views 108, 109, 111, 183–4, 185,
186–7, 188–9
in Year Books 12–13, 20, 22, 182
Pocock on 199
St German on 47–8, 55
Reformatio legum ecclesiasticarum 130
Reformed theology, influence of 119–20, 122–4,
129, 131, 135–6, 138, 142, 158, 243, 249
Rehoboam 27
Requests, court of 261
resistance theory 96–7, 139–40, 150–1, 152, 154,
278–9
revocation, act of 235, 250
Richard II 8–9, 18, 63
Richard III 31, 32
Ridley, Nicholas 122
Robinson, Raphe 88
Roger of Waltham 29
Rome 25, 26, 28, 98, 111, see also papacy, law
Root and Branch Petition 257
Roses, Wars of 4
royalists 1–2, 261–2, 263, 265–6, 267
constitutional 238, 239, 262, 265
Russell, Conrad 191, 219, 252, 262, 263
Ruthven raid 149