A collection of precedents for the summoning, dissolving, and other proceedings in the High Court of Parliament. Manuscript on paper in cursive and italic scripts of varying dates, produced in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Description:
Binding: Middle Hill boards with a vellum spine., Ex libris Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 6832). Purchased for the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection., and Several items are in the hand of Robert Bowyer, clerk of Parliament from 1610-1622. See also Osborn fa23.
Subject (Name):
England and Wales.--Parliament--Rules and practice--Early works to 1800 and Phillipps, Thomas,--Sir.--Ownership
Subject (Topic):
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library and Parliamentary practice--England--Early works to 1800