COLLECTION of transcripts of political tracts and poems, satires, lampoons, epigrams, ballads, etc., illustrating the history of the reigns of Charles II.-Anne, and more particularly the period of the Revolution, with a few pieces dating earlier in the 17th cent. Among the tracts are:- I. 1. P...
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...
TREATISE on the origin and powers of Parliaments, in Latin; bog. " Longa temporis duratione sensim attrita et vulnerata gloria Romani Imperii," etc. Preceded by an " Elenchus sectionum Introductionis," the first section concluding, " Quarum legum et consuetudinum [Saxonum] hæc erat lex fundament...
" A JOURNALL of the Parliament holden " 24 Oct. 1597-9 Feb. 1598, "concerning the passages in the house of Commons. Which is the first parliament I [Heyward Townesend, or Townshend, of Lincoln's Inn, see ff. 56, 89] was of, being nowe Burges for Bushops Castle in Shropshire." Followed by (a) " a...
STATUTES of the Realm, Law tracts, etc., as follows:- 1. "Carta de Libertatibus Anglie": Magna Carta, as re-issued by Henry III., 11 Feb. 1225. Lat. f. 2. 2. " Carta de Foresta " ; as re-issued in Feb. 1225. Lat. f. 4. 3. Statute of Merton, 1235. Fr. f. 5. 4. " Provisa Oxonie, edita anno...
LEGAL COLLECTIONS, with additions, viz.:- 1. Proceedings in connection with the suit of John [Bancroft], Bishop of Oxford, to recover a debt from Sir Edward Heron; 1633. f. 3. 2. " The argument of Sir Francis Bacon, knight, the kings Attorney- General, in the kings case de Rege inconsulto, b...
MISCELLANIES, legal and political:- 1. Reading of Edward Bagshaw on 25 Edw. III., c. 7, in the Middle Temple, 24 Feb. 1639 [40]; with index. From a MS. belonging to Sir Henry Yelverton. f. 3. 2. Reading of Henry Slierfield on 32 Hen. VIII. c. 1, of Wills, ill Lincoln's Inn, Easter term, 1624...