Harley MS 1222

Various tracts bound together:

ff. 1-23: Sir John Davies (1569-1626), ‘Charge to the jurors of the Grand Inquest at York, 1619, for the mainteyning and contynueing the publique Peace by the Execution of Justice’.

ff. 24-52: ‘A Catt may look at a King’. Tract on the tyranny of kings from King William I onwards, focusing especially on King James I.

ff. 53-60: Speech of the Duke of Buckingham in the House of Lords, 15 February 1676.

ff. 61r-66r: Speech of Sir George Treby, Attorney General and London Recorder, to the Lord Chief Baron Atkins, upon Sir Thomas Pilkington’s coming up to be sworn at the Exchequer as Lord Mayor of London, 2 June 1690.

ff. 66r-68: Speech of Sir Robert Atkins, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, to Sir Thomas Pilkington, Lord Mayor of London, 2 June 1690.

ff. 69-78: Judge Rookebye’s Argument about the East-India Company 1692.

ff. 79-83: Summary of the council of William Bridgeman, who brings an assize of freehold against Roland Holt and Edward Coleman for the Office of the King’s Chief Clerk of his Court of King’s Bench. This cause was appointed to be tried in Banco Regis, 22 June 1693.

ff. 84-87: ‘An Opinion of Dr Hooper Dean of Canterbury in the Case of the Parishes of St Martin & St James, 1693’. On a case involving granting of livings of the parishes of St James and St Martins in the Fields, Westminster.

ff. 88-96: Arguments and opinions in the case of Charles and Anne Fry against George Porter, 1670.

ff. 97-102: Summary of arguments of Edward Bagshaw, reader of the Middle Temple, at his readings in Lent, 1639. On two points: whether an act of parliament might pass by consent of the King and Parliament, without consent or presence of the spiritual Lords; and, whether a beneficed clerk might exercise civil jurisdiction and be a justice of the peace. MPES https://mpese.ac.uk/t/BagshawReadingLentTerm1640.html

ff. 103-109: Reading of Edward Bagshaw, Lent 1640, with questions and replies on it from the Bishop of Canterbury, the Lord Keeper, and Edward Bagshaw. The tract is a relation of the method Bagshaw intended to pursue, on the previous two topics and, thirdly, whether a bishop has power to convict a heretic without calling a synod. With a summary of his reasons for arguing against that, and his conference with Archbishop Laud over the King’s prohibition against him continuing the reading.

ff. 110-168: Papers relating to the trial between the East India Company and Thomas Sands.

• Argument of the Solicitor General at the Trial between the East India Company and Thomas Sands, an interloper, 19 April 1684.
• Extract of the declaration of the East India Company against Thomas Sands.
• Argument of Mr Pollexfen in the behalf of Thomas Sands, pleaded at the Kings Bench 19 April 1684, wherein he endeavoured to prove that the charter of the East India Company was against the Statute of Monopolies 21 Jac. I.
• Speech of the Lord Chief Justice and the opinions of the other judges of the bench to defer the hearing to the next Michaelmas Term on account of its importance.

ff. 169-194: Pleadings on both sides in the Court of the Kings Bench 4 November 1693 in the case of the presentations of the benefice of St Martins in the Fields (above), and deferment by the Lord Chief Justice to the next term.

ff. 195-223: Opinion of Mr Justice Walcott, Mr Justice Charles Holloway, Mr Justice Withins and Lord Chief Justice Sir John Holt on the action brought by the East India Company above.