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Volume of contemporary copies of judicial and parliamentary proceedings arising from the forced loan of 1627, c. 1627-1628

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MS. Eng. hist. d. 231
Held at the Weston Library

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Volume containing:

  1. (fols. 1-5) Sir John Eliot's petition from the Gatehouse concerning the forced loan, printed in J. Rushworth, Historical collections, i (London, 1659), 429-35
  2. (fols. 5-114) proceedings on a writ of habeas corpus sued by Sir Thomas Denman and others in the King's Bench, 1627, printed in W. Cobbett, State trials, iii (London, 1809), 1-59 (another copy is in Bodl., MS. Tanner 191)
  3. (fols. 114v-18) precedent from Sir Edmund Anderson's reports, printed in Rushworth, op. cit., i, 511-12. A note by Fabian Philipps on fol. i states that the manuscript 'is the originall from whence Rushworth took his collections'.

Dates

  • Creation: c. 1627-1628

Extent

120 Leaves

Language of Materials

  • English

Shelfmark

MS. Eng. hist. d. 231