Stowe MS 359

PROCEEDINGS in Parliament, 1-43 Eliz. [ 1558-1601 ], taken from the official and other Journals, by Sir Roger Twysden. At the beginning (f. 13) is the following note, among others, " This booke I collected and writ out of S^r Simonds D'Euse [D'Ewes] his Memorialls, whilst I remayned a prisoner in Lambeth howse, 1645. Roger Twysden. Desinit timere, qui sperare desierit "; and at the end (f 301), " And heere ended the last Parlyament held in the tyme of that most glorious Queene, the passages of which haue sweld the more in respect I was helped with two very elaborate Dyaries or Joumalls of it, beesides that publique one remayning with the Clark of the howse of Commons, the one taken by my father in hys owne hand, who at this tyme scrued in Parlyament a Burgess for Helston in Cornwall, the other by Mr. Heyward Towneshend, of Lincolns Inne, Esqr., who at this tyme was Burgesse for Byshops Castle in the County of Salop, both which truly were very exactly taken, concurring many tymes in the very same words, onely where my father Sr William Twysden had some tyme omitted the names of some that spake, I found means happyly to supply those defects out of Mr. Towneshends. Though I must confesse I haue not in these collections of mine so much laboured to remember the speeches as the orders of the howse, the priuiledges of it, and the manner of proceeding in it,; and therefore haue especyally tyed myself to follow the Original or Clarks Journall," etc. At the beginning (ff. 1, 3) are extracts from the Rolls of Parliament for 46 Edw. III., and 1 Rich. III. Paper; ff. 303. A.D. 1645. Folio.

Sir Roger Twysden, Antiquary (ob. 1672): Proceedings in Parliament, 1558-1601, extracted by: 1645.

England; Parliament: Proceedings in: 1558-1601.

Sir Simonds D'Ewes, Baronet: Extracts from the collections of: 1645.

includes:

• f. 301 Sir William Twysden, Baronet: Parliamentary journal of, referred to: 1645.
• f. 301 Heyward Townshend, MP for Bishop's Castle: Parliamentary journal of, referred to: 1645.