Facing up to the consequences of Christmas spending is a common problem in January, but for some in serious financial straights the past, parliament provided a solution. Dr Andrew Thrush, editor of the House of Lords 1603-60 section, tells us more about early 17th Century debtors in the Commons… Not all of those who entered the Commons in the early seventeenth century did so from … Continue reading The election of debtors to the early Stuart House of Commons