Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 November 2011
This article reassesses the political career of Sir Edward Dering (d. 1644), a prominent but extremely controversial MP during the Long Parliament, who has fascinated historians because of the way in which he appears to have ‘defected’ from the cause of political and religious reform, who was eventually expelled from the Commons for publishing his parliamentary speeches, and who briefly flirted with royalism before making a humiliating return to Westminster. It does so by focusing upon his relationship with the public, in terms of how he courted popular support in order to secure election, and how people followed his subsequent parliamentary career, not least through the circulation of scribal and printed texts. It highlights how constituents (and others) responded to such activity, not least by making clear what policies he was expected to promote, thereby revealing that Dering's career was driven not just by his own political and religious views, but also by ideas about his role as an MP, and about his relationship with his constituents. Dering thus provides a rare opportunity to scrutinize the dynamic relationships between MPs and the public, thereby revealing hitherto neglected evidence about transformations in political culture and ideas regarding representation.
I am grateful to Dr Bill Bulman, to members of seminars in Cambridge, Liverpool and London, and to delegates at the North American Conference of British Studies in San Francisco, for generous and helpful comments upon earlier versions of this article.
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37 Peacey, ‘Dering’.
38 BL, Stowe 184, fos. 39–40; CKS, U1107/O13.
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40 BL, Add. 26785, fos. 40, 89; Larking, ed., Proceedings, pp. 48–9, 121–2, 130–1, 152–4.
41 East Kent Record Office (RO), Dover, Sa/C1, pp. 68–9; BL, Stowe 744, fo. 2r–v; BL, Add. 26785, fo. 107; Larking, ed., Proceedings, pp. 110–11, 162–3.
42 Dering, Collection, pp. 12–13, 15–16, 42; Calendar of state papers domestic (CSPD), 1640–1641, p. 269; Rushworth, ed., Historical collections, iii, pp. 1345–6, iv, pp. 55–6; BL, Add. 26786, fos. 1v, 2.
43 Larking, ed., Proceedings, pp. 104–6, 106–7, 142–3, 143–4, 144–5.
44 BL, Add. 26785, fos. 78, 87, 218; Larking, ed., Proceedings, pp. 113–19, 124–35, 141–2, 145–52, 155–62, 173–8, 180–9, 192–3, 195–8, 201–26, 233–4, 236–40.
45 BL, Add. 26785, fo. 84; Larking, ed., Proceedings, pp. 143–4, 198–200, 200–1; CKS, U350/C2/89.
46 BL, Add. 26785, fo. 84.
47 BL, Stowe 184, fo. 33.
48 CKS, U350/C2/89.
49 Larking, ed., Proceedings, pp. 174–5, 193–4.
50 CJ, ii, pp. 136, 139, 148, 148, 190, 190, 198, 206, 212, 221; BL, Harl. 163, fos. 149, 177, 190, 199, 240, Harl. 477, fos. 44, 69, 73, Harl. 479, fos. 53, 66, 86, Add. 26785, fo. 43; Bodl. MS Rawl. D.1099, fos. 98, 155; Stationers’ Company, Liber A, fo. 137; M. Jansson, ed., Proceedings in the opening session of the Long Parliament (7 vols., Rochester, NY, 2000–7), vi, p. 63. For Dering's licensing, see: A transcript of the registers of the worshipful company of stationers (3 vols., London, 1913–14), i, pp. 16, 20, 21, 24–30, 33–4, 36; BL, Stowe 107, fo. 3; Bodl. MS Wood.f.35, fo. 380; Cambridge University Library (CUL), Add. 2609, section 2, p. 568.
51 BL, Sloane 1467, fo. 38, Stowe 743, fos. 163–4, Stowe 184, fos. 37, 41–2, Add. 26785, fo. 42; Larking, ed., Proceedings, pp. 49–51; CKS, U350/Q5; CSPD, 1640–1641, pp. 530–1. For his licensing of books by Carpenter and Ward, see: Transcript of the registers, i, pp. 20, 36.
52 BL, Stowe 184, fo. 35.
53 Salt, ‘Origins’, p. 49; Hirst, ‘Defection’, p. 201.
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56 ‘It is the common opinion, that ere long, his grace will be past grace’: Larking, ed., Proceedings, pp. 193–4. For Dering's use of a similar phrase, see: Dering, Collection, p. 10.
57 For the speech, see: Dering, Collection, 12–13, 15–16, 42; Rushworth, ed., Historical collections, iii, pp. 1345–6, iv, pp. 55–6; Speeches and passages, pp. 91–4. For its circulation, see: CSPD, 1640–1641, p. 269; BL, Sloane 3317, fos. 3–4, Harl. 6801, fos. 174–5, Harl. 4931, fo. 95, Harl. 1327, fos. 39–40, Harl. 7162, fos. 175–82, Add. 26640, fo. 104r–v, Add. 57929, fos. 52–3, Add. 24863, fo. 29r–v; Add. 34485, fo. 77, Add. 64921, fo. 126, Add. 78655, unfol., Lans. 493, fos. 124–7v, Lans. 1232, fos. 91–2, Stowe 361, fo. 83v; HMC, Tenth report, Appendix iv, p. 202; HMC, Fourth report, p. 370; NLS, Wodrow quarto xxv, fos. 100v–3v; Beinecke Library, Osborn shelves, b.297, item 20, Osborn shelves b.229, unfol.; CUL, Mm.4.10, fos. 31–3; PA, HL/PO/RO/1/72, pp. 88–93; SHL, MS 308, fos. 171v–5v; Derbyshire RO, D258/10/32/3; Devon RO, 2547M/FH5; Worcestershire RO, 899:192/BA1714, p. 20; Corpus Christi College, Oxford, MS 317, fo. 253; All Souls’ College, Oxford, MS 181, fo. 325; University College, Oxford, MS 83, fo. 15; National Archives, Kew (TNA), PRO 30/24/33/9, fo. 35; TCD, MS 867, fo. 255v.
58 BL, Stowe 744, fo. 1.
59 For the speech: Notestein, ed., D'Ewes, p. 182; Dering, Collection, pp. 43–8; BL, Add. 26786, fo. 6v. For its circulation: BL, Sloane 1430, fos. 65–8, Harl. 6801, fos. 133–5v, Harl. 4931, fo. 96, Harl. 1327, fo. 48r–v, Harl. 7162, fos. 183–9v, Add. 57929, fo. 58r–v, Add. 78655, unfol., Lans. 493, fos. 128–30v, Lans. 1232, fos. 106–7, Stowe 354, fos. 94v–5, Stowe 361, fo. 85, RP 3423, unbound; HMC, Tenth report, Appendix iv, p. 202; CSPD, 1640–1641, pp. 294–5; Beinecke, Osborn shelves b.297, item 21; Osborn shelves b.229, unfol.; FSL, Add. 887, unfol.; CUL, Mm.4.10, fos. 58v–9; PA, HL/PO/RO/1/72, pp. 94–8; SHL, MS 308, fos. 176–80; University College, Oxford, MS 83, fo. 16; TCD, MS 867, fo. 266v.
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61 For the speech: Speeches and passages, pp. 97–9; Notestein, ed., D'Ewes, p. 249; Dering, Collection, pp. 17–18, 20–4. For its circulation: BL, Harl. 7162, fos. 190–4v, Lans. 1232, fos. 125v–6; TCD, MS 867, fo. 328; Canterbury Cathedral Library (CCL), DCc/Cant.Let/84; HMC, Ninth report (London, 1883), Appendix i, p. 122; Smith, W. J., ed., Calendar of the Salusbury correspondence, 1553–c. 1700 (Cardiff, 1954), p. 117Google Scholar.
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67 Transcript of the registers, i, p. 24. Two versions of this work survive. One was printed for Eglesfield, entitled A consideration and resolution, and another by Thomas Paine for John Stafford, entitled A consideration upon the late canons: Dering, E., A consideration and resolution (1641, D1106)Google Scholar; E. D[ering], A consideration upon the late canons (1641, D1107). A third version, printed by Paine for Stafford and Eglesfield, purported to contain both of these speeches as well as the speeches of 10 November, 23 November, and at the delivery of the Kent petition, although the only known copy contains merely the speech against the canons: Deering, E., A consideration and a resolution (1641, D1107a)Google Scholar. The title page claimed that earlier versions of these three speeches had been ‘printed by an imperfect copy’.
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69 Speeches and passages, sigs. M4v–O2.
70 Persecutio undecima, pp. 17–18.
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72 CKS, U350/C2/86.
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74 BL, Stowe 184, fo. 23.
75 BL, Add. 26785, fos. 23, 27, Stowe 184, fo. 23; Notestein, ed., D'Ewes, p. 249; Dering, Collection, pp. 17–18, 20–4; Hirst, ‘Defection’, p. 200.
76 CKS, U350/C2/88.
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78 BL, Stowe 184, fo. 27. For copies of Dering's speeches within the library of Henry Oxinden, see: CCL, Elham 417*(45–7). I am grateful to Sheila Hingley for these references.
79 BL, Add. 26785, fo. 38.
80 Hirst, ‘Defection’, p. 201.
81 BL, Add. 26785, fo. 36.
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83 Dering, Collection, pp. 66–7, 68, 74, 76; Rushworth, ed., Historical collections, iv, pp. 293–6; Bodl. MS Rawl.D.1099, fo. 79b. See: Maltby, ‘Approaches’, p. 158.
84 BL, Harl. 479, fo. 72; Dering, Collection, pp. 98, 99, 106, 120–53, 141–2.
85 BL, Harl. 479, fo. 117; Dering, Collection, p. 78; CKS, U350/C2/94–5.
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87 Dering, Collection, pp. 89, 90, 93, 94; Coates, ed., D'Ewes, p. 30; Rushworth, ed., Historical collections, iv, p. 394. See: Maltby, ‘Approaches’, p. 159n. Dering may also have backed, or been involved in organizing, a Kent petition calling for such a synod: BL, Add. 26785, fo. 49, Stowe 744, fo. 13; Maltby, ‘Approaches’, pp. 159–60.
88 Coates, ed., D'Ewes, pp. 117, 219–20; CJ, ii, pp. 322, 327, 328; Dering, Collection, p. 107; BL, Add. 64922, fo. 65.
89 Dering, Collection, pp. 95, 97, 105, 110, 111–12; Coates, ed., D'Ewes, pp. 151–2, 181n, 183n; CJ, ii, pp. 317; Bruce, J., ed., Verney papers (Camden Society, vol. 31, London, 1845), p. 122Google Scholar; Rushworth, ed., Historical collections, iv, pp. 425–8; Nalson, ed., Impartial collection, ii, pp. 668–74.
90 Dering, Collection, pp. 79, 108–9.
91 Hirst, ‘Defection’, p. 201; Hirst, Representative, p. 185.
92 BL, Stowe 184, fos. 27–8, 43, 47r–v; Hirst, ‘Defection’, p. 202.
93 BL, Add. 26785, fo. 52; Dering, Collection, p. 93.
94 BL, Add. 26785, fos. 53, 55, 56.
95 BL, Stowe 744, fos. 13r–v.
96 CSPD, 1641–1643, p. 188; CJ, ii, p. 349; BL, Add. 26785, fos. 59–60.
97 Dering, Collection, p. 153. See: Cromartie, ‘Printing’, p. 37.
98 Three editions of this survive: Dering, E., A most worthy speech (1641?, D1112–14)Google Scholar. See: CCL, Elham 417*(46), Elham 420*(30).
99 CKS, U350/C2/96; Coates, W. H., Young, A. S., and Snow, V., eds., Private journals of the Long Parliament (3 vols., New Haven, CT, 1982–92), i, pp. 120Google Scholar, 125; CJ, ii, p. 387; Diurnall Occurrences, 6 (7–14 Feb. 1642), sig. A3.
100 CKS, U350/C2/96–7. See: Gardiner, D., ed., The Oxinden letters, 1607–1642 (London, 1933), p. 270Google Scholar.
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102 Dering, Collection, sig. A3. He told his wife that he was ‘almost tired out with swimming against the stream’: CKS, U350/C2/96.
103 Dering, Collection, pp. 2, 11, 16, 17, 24, 48–9, 61–2, 162.
104 Ibid., pp. 62–3. See: E. Hyde, earl of Clarendon, The history of the rebellion, ed. W. D. Macray (6 vols., Oxford, 1888), i, p. 314.
105 Dering, Collection, pp. 3–4, 5, 65, 81, 88, 107, 119, 120.
106 It is interesting that Dering neglected to publish two of his speeches. One, a report regarding Henry Burton's Protestation protested, survives in Dering's own hand: BL, Stowe 354, fos. 111–12. A second was prepared during the recess, but was unable to be delivered before his removal from the Commons: Lambeth Palace Library, MS 943, pp. 735–7. Pym claimed that Dering neglected to deliver the report into Burton's pamphlet: Beinecke Library, Osborn files 12398.
107 Dering, Collection, pp. 155–61. The order and forme for church government (1641), pp. 1–4; Master Grimstons argument concerning bishops (1641), pp. 2–5; Sixteene propositions in parliament (1642), pp. 1–4. The first of these had been referred to Dering's committee on 23 July, although it is not known whether Dering sponsored its appearance: Jansson, ed., Proceedings, vi, p. 63.
108 Dering, Collection, pp. 48–9, 96.
109 Ibid., Collection, pp. 62, 65, 96, 161–2; Coates, Young, and Snow, eds., Private journals, i, p. 253; BL, Add. 26785, fo. 49.
110 BL, Add. 26785, fo. 63; Larking, ed., Proceedings, pp. 70–3. See: Hirst, ‘Defection’, pp. 206–7. This letter was published as: A message of peace (1642). See: Dering, Collection, p. 102.
111 Dering, Collection, p. 161.
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