Collections concerning parliamentary affairs
Collections concerning parliamentary affairs, copied for Wadham Wyndham by Thomas Muttlebury, 1633, from the original in Lincoln's Inn belonging to John Dodge. Many of the items are printed or abstracted in J. Rushworth, Historical collections, i (London, 1659), 211, 242-3, 247-50, 462-7, 484-5, 533-43, 574-85. The contents of fols. 103-57 are also in Lincoln's Inn MS. Maynard 72. The collections include:
- (fols. 1-102) reports of the habeas corpus cases of Sir Thomas Darnell, Sir John Corbet, Sir Walter Earle, Sir Edmund Hampden and Sir John Henningham in King's Bench, 1627, and the related parliamentary proceedings, 1628
- (fols. 125-53) reports of 21 cases concerning parliamentary elections brought before a committee of the House of Commons, 1623-4, published as Reports of certain cases ... collected by John Glanville (London, 1775). Published in microform, and described in Baker, p. 185.
Dates
- Creation: 1604-1628
Extent
166 Leaves
Language of Materials
- English
Preferred Citation
Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MS. Eng. hist. c. 397, fols. 1-2].
Shelfmark:
MS. Eng. hist. c. 397
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 9400
Abstract
Collections concerning parliamentary affairs, 1604-1628.
Biographical / Historical
Sir Thomas Darnell, d. 1638, 1st Baronet, was an English landowner, at the centre of a celebrated state legal case in the reign of Charles I of England, often known as the 'Five Knights' Case'. Sir John Corbet, bap. 1594-d. 1662, 1st Baronet, was an English politician. Sir Walter Earle, 1586-1665, was an English politician.
Other Finding Aids
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Bought, G. W. Walford, list A/106 (1962), 592.
Physical Facet
late 19th- or early 20th-cent. vellum binding
- Title
- Collections concerning parliamentary affairs
- Status
- Published
- Date
- EAD version 2019 by Alice Whichelow
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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