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John Pym, the only son of Alexander Pym and his wife, Philippa Colles Pym, was born in Cannington, Somerset, on 20th May 1584. The Pym family had been established in this area since the thirteenth century and his family owned "property in nearly every parish between Glastonbury and Exmoor". (1) Alexander Pym died, seven months after John's birth.
His financial programme is covered in Russell’s essay ‘Parliament and the King’s Finances’, in Origins of the English Civil War. Pym’s role as a parliamentary manager and committee man are dealt with in three articles by L. Glow: ‘Pym and Parliament’, Journal of Modern History, 1964; ‘The Committee Men in the Long Parliament ...
24 de jun. de 2020 · In the first in a series of conversations about parliamentary leadership, History of Parliament Trust Director and expert in mid-seventeenth century politics...
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Pym's Rhetorical Legacy This essay provides an ideographic reading of John Pym's orations to the Short and Long Parliaments between 1640 and 1643. We argue that Pym defined <law> with <religion>, <justice>, and Parliamentary privilege> to combat innovations by Charles I and his advisers against democratic processes and to extend existing rights.
14 de feb. de 2022 · The Short Parliament met in April 1640 for only three weeks and achieved nothing except upsetting the king when John Pym made a speech on 17 April calling for more powers for Parliament and the protection of MPs' privilege of independence, a defence of the Anglican Church, and an end to illegal taxation (taxes raised without the authority of Parliament).
Abstract. This article explores the royalist libels that afflicted the parliamentarian leader John Pym during the early 1640s to argue that the period marked an important turning point in English libellous politics. First, like many of the political libels circulating in early Civil War England, royalist attacks against Pym transitioned ...
14 de feb. de 2024 · John Pym (20 May 1584 - 8 December 1643) was a politician and administrator from London, generally seen as one of the founders of Parliamentary democracy in England. One of the Five Members whose attempted arrest in January 1642 sparked the First English Civil War , his use of procedure to outmanoeuvre opponents was unusual for the period and he was respected by contemporaries rather than admired.
