Data: Petitioning and Petitioners to the Westminster Parliament, 1660-1788

Raw data for Graph 1: Large Responsive and Initiatory Petitions to the Westminster Parliament, 1660-1788.

This Excel file provides the number of large responsive and initiatory petitions presented to each Westminster parliamentary session from 1660 to 1788. These data have been produced from the Journals for the House of Lords and House of Commons, and supplemented by research in the Parliamentary Archives.

'Large responsive' petitions are defined as those petitions submitted on, or after, the second reading of a piece of legislation already introduced to parliament, and which were signed by at least twenty people (in the case of the Lords, for which the petitions survive), or by a collective group for those presented to the House of Commons. 'Initiatory’ petitions are those petitions which were critical and disruptive towards the settlement of 1688 (such as on Economical or Parliamentary Reform).

The Excel file lists the session dates, and the number of such petitions presented.

图1原始数据：1660-1788年威斯敏斯特议会的重大响应性和倡议性请愿书。本Excel文件提供了从1660年至1788年每个威斯敏斯特议会会期提交的重大响应性和倡议性请愿书的数量。这些数据源于上议院和下议院会议记录，并辅以议会档案馆的研究成果。

所谓‘重大响应性’请愿书，是指那些在法案提交议会二读之后，或提交当日，由至少二十人（在上议院，此类请愿书存档）或集体团体签署的请愿书，以及提交给下议院的请愿书。‘倡议性’请愿书则是指那些对1688年（如经济或议会改革）的和解持批评和破坏态度的请愿书。

Excel文件列出了会期日期以及此类请愿书的提交数量。