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1. Stowe MS 329

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Stowe MS 329
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1. " MODUS tenendi Parliamentum"; with a note at the beginning in the hand of Sir Roger Twysden (ob. 1672), referring to other copies in the library of Sir Thomas Cotton. f. 1. 2. A short treatise on the " Court of Parliament," beg. " This is the King's Majesties principall Court of Record." T...
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Western Manuscripts
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English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 17th century
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1 item

2. Stowe MS 331

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Stowe MS 331
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1. " A TRUE PRESENTATION of forepast Parlyaments to the view of present tymes and posteritye." Attributed in T. Hearne's Curious Discourses, 1771, vol. ii. p. 433, to Sir John Dodderidge (ob. 1628), Justice of the King's Bench. The author, however, in his preface (f. 4) states that the work was ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
17th century
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1 item

3. Stowe MS 332

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Stowe MS 332
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TREATISE On Judicature in Parliament, evidently written in the reign of Charles I., beg. " The execucion of all our lawes." Precedents are freely quoted, the last being the accusations of the Earl of Bristol and the Duke of Buckingham in 1626; and the treatise must have been written between that...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
17th century
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1 item

4. Stowe MS 333

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Stowe MS 333
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" WHITELOCKES Historie of the Parlement of England. And of some resemblances to the Jewish and other Councells "; by Bulstrode Whitelocke, Commissioner of the Great Seal (1648-1655, 1659), etc. Holograph. Cf. Add. MS. 31,984. The work is incomplete, the volume ending with Bk. i., ch. 22, entitle...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
17th century
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1 item

5. Stowe MS 334-337

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Stowe MS 334-337
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" AN ESSAY upon the ancient and modern government, conventions and parliaments of England. With abstracts of the most observable laws and the frequency of later parliaments, in which is treated principally of the Saxon and Norman constitution of government and the legislative (sic) and laws during the time of the Saxon and first six Norman kings. After which succeed several necessary observations on succeeding parliaments, their frequency and prorogations to the reign of Elizabeth." Four vol...
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England; Parliament: Essay on the government of England, to the reign of Hen. III.: 18th cent. England General Chronicles and History: Essay on the government and parliaments of England to the reign of Hen. III.: 18th cent.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
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4 items

6. Stowe MS 338

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Stowe MS 338
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REFERENCES to, and short extracts from, the Records in the Tower and other documents, being apparently a collection towards a Parliamentary history of England. In the hand of Rev. Philip Morant (ob. 1778). Paper; ff. 48. Duodecimo. England; Parliament: Notes from the Tower Records relating to t...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
18th century
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1 item

7. Stowe MS 339

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Stowe MS 339
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" REPERTORIUM sive Elenchus Parliamentorum," tempp. Edw. III. -Edw. IV. : an alphabetical index of subjects. At the end (f. 41) is a copy of the recantation by Edward Spence, on 6 Nov. 1686, of a sermon preached by him before the University at St. Mary's Church, Cambridge, on the previous day ag...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
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1 item

8. Stowe MS 340

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Stowe MS 340
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" REMEMBRANCES for Order and Decency to be kept in the Upper House of Parliament by the Lords, when his Majesty is not there," the dates extending from 14 Dec. 1621 to 7 May, 1712. Paper; ff. 55. Early xviiith cont. Bound in red morocco, tooled. Duodecimo. England; Parliament: Remembrances for ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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14 Dec 1621-7 May 1712
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1 item

9. Stowe MS 341

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Stowe MS 341
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" REMEMBRANCES for the Order and Decency to be kept in the Upper House of Parliament by the Lords when his Majesty is not there," etc., extending to 1731 [2] ; with index. Paper; ff. 56. xviiith cent. Small quarto. England; Parliament: Remembrances for order and decency in the House of Lords: 1...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
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1 item

10. Stowe MS 342

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Stowe MS 342
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" REMEBRANCES for Order and Decency to be kept in the Upper House of Parliament by the Lords when his Majestie is not there"; with index. Paper; ff. 50. xviiith cent. Bound in red morocco, stamped with the royal arms. Duodecimo. Bindings ENGLISH: Red morocco, with the royal arms: 18th cent. En...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
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1 item