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To study the social and economic composition of Parliament (1691 - 1693) and the political behaviour of the men who sat in it.

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Variables Details of attendance at sessions and parliaments, constituency type and size, and political party of respondent. Number of: second reading committee nominations, committees of investigation nominations, tellerships, speeches, areas of service (data were collected for 1st and 2nd sessions). Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.

159 MP's were selected as `workers'. A working member was defined as one who reached a high level of activity in at least one of the four areas of service selected for analysis (see publication)

Compilation or synthesis of existing material

Compilation of published data plus materials from private papers, etc.