Table of Contents:

Introduction: The Growth of Many Centuries

Paul Evans

Part I: The Man and his Milieu

1. A Sycophant of Real Ability: The Career of Thomas Erskine May  William McKay

2. Slumber and Success: The House of Commons Library after May  Oonagh Gay

3. Magi or Mandarins?: Contemporary Clerkly Culture   Emma Crewe

Part II: The Book

4. Persuading the House: The Use of the Commons Journals as a Source of Precedent   Martyn Atkins

5. Manuals before May: From the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Century  David Natzler

6. Parliamentary Law in the Eighteenth Century: From Commonplace to Treatise  Paul Seaward

7. From Manual to Authority: The Life and Times of the Treatise  Paul Evans and Andrej Ninkovic

8. Controversy at the Antipodes (and Elsewhere): The International Cousins of the Treatise

David Natzler, David Bagnall, Jean-Phillipe Brochu and Peter Fowler

Part III: Procedural Development

9. The Principle of Progress: May and Procedural Reform  William McKay

10. May on Money: Supply Proceedings and the Functions of a Legislature  Colin Lee

11. A History of the Standing Orders   Simon Patrick

12. Pursuing the Efficient Despatch of Business: The Role of Committees in Procedural Reform since 1900   Mark Egan

13. Finding Time: Legislative Procedure since May   Jacqy Sharpe and Paul Evans

Part IV: Select Committees

14. Where Did It All Go Right: Developments in Select Committees, 1913–1960   Mark Hutton

15. A Road not Taken: Select Committees and the Estimates, 1880–1904  Colin Lee

Part V: The Lex Parliamentaria Revisited

16. Privilege: The Unfolding Debate with the Courts   Eve Samson

17. Is the Lex Parliamentaria Really Law?: The House of Commons as a Legal System   David Howarth

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