Sir Benjamin Rudyerd

1572–1658

Introduction

Sir Benjamin Rudyard (1572-1658) was a politician, a notable contributor to the consequential parliamentary debates of the 1620s-40s, and also a poet. Given the posthumous amalgamation of poems by him with poems by Lord Pembroke in the 1660 edition of Poems, written by the Right Honorable William Earl of Pembroke…many of which are answered by way of Repartee, by Sr Benjamin Ruddier, Knight. With several distinct Poems, written by them occasionally, and apart, the canon of his verse is scarcely well established. It is accordingly incorporated for present purposes in the section on William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke: PeW 1-129.

One addition to the 1660 canon is a series of 31 epigrams which are ascribed to B: R:, among poems by fellow members of the Inns of Court such as Sir John Davies and John Hoskyns, in a miscellany in the Rosenbach Museum & Library (RuB 1). A case has been made by James Sanderson for probable attribution of these epigrams to Rudyard.

Speeches

Otherwise Rudyerd is extensively represented in CELM by some of his numerous speeches in the House of Commons. Although sometimes criticized for their wordiness and formally prepared character, lacking spontaneity, his speeches were widely circulated in manuscript copies. Some were in contemporary manuscript separates; others in manuscript parliamentary journals or compilations of parliamentary speeches and proceedings for particular years between 1621 and 1643. Copies of these speeches are not always dated consistently, nor is it always clear whether certain of them recorded in CELM are really separate rather than versions of speeches already recorded. No doubt many more manuscript copies of speeches by Rudyerd are to be found, as also copies or reports of his brief parliamentary interjections, which have not been given entries here.

Publications familiar to parliamentary historians which include speeches, or reports on speeches, by Rudyerd, as well as some accounts of the nature of their manuscript distribution, include Commons Debates, 1621, ed. Wallace Notestein, 7 vols (New Haven, 1935); Proceedings in Parliament 1628, Vols. 1-6, ed. Robert C. Johnson, Mary Frear Keeler, Maija Jansson Cole, and William B. Bidwell (New Haven, 1977-96); Commons Debates for 1629, ed. Wallace Notestein and Frances Helen Relf (Minneapolis, 1921); The Journal of Sir Simonds D'Ewes: from the beginning of the Long Parliament to the opening of the trial of the Earl of Strafford, ed. Wallace Notestein (New Haven, 1923); Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640, ed. Esther S. Cope with Willson H. Coates, Camden Society 4th Ser. 19 (London, 1977); Proceedings in the opening session of the Long Parliament: House of Commons, ed. Maija Jansson, with Jennifer Klein Morrison, Alisa Plant and Shawn Smith, 7 vols (Rochester, NY, 2000-7); John Rushworth, Historical Collections of Private Passages of State, 8 vols (London, 1721-22); Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England (London, 1806-20); and James Alexander Manning, Memoirs of Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Knt. (London, 1841).

Letters

In the course of his political life Rudyerd also wrote numerous letters, which can be found in the National Archives, Kew, and elsewhere. These have not been given separate entries here.

Verse

Epigrames p[er] B. R.

A series of 31 epigrams, possibly by Rudyerd, attributed to him in James L. Sanderson, Epigrames p[er] B[enjamin] R[udyerd] and Some More Stolen Feathers of Henry Parrot, RES, NS 17 (1966), 241-55. Three of the epigrams first published in Henry Parrot, Laquei ridiculosi, or Springes to Catch Woodcocks (London, 1613). Sixteen of the epigrams published in The Dr. Farmer Chetham MS, ed. Alexander B. Grosart, Chetham Society, vols 89 and 90 (Manchester, 1873). These and the rest published in Sanderson.

RuB 1

Copy of the 31 epigrams, headed Epigrames p B. R.

A quarto verse miscellany, 180 pages, in three secretary hands, in contemporary limp vellum.

Probably compiled by a member of an Inn of Court.

c.1630

Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Formerly Rosenbach 186.

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1000 through end (MS 1083/15 pp. 48-55)

RuB 2

Copy of epigrams 1-5, 7-10, 14-18, and 29.

Grosart, I, 100-5. Collated in Sanderson.

A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in at least seven secretary and italic hands, 118 leaves (plus some blanks), currently disbound.

Possibly compiled by one or more persons connected with the Inns of Court.

c.1600-1620s

Later in the library of the Rev. Richard Farmer, FSA (1735-97), Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, literary scholar. Lot 8055 in the sale of his library by Thomas King, 7 May to 16 June 1798. Probably owned afterwards by James Crossley (1800-83), author and book collector. Formerly Chetham's MS 8012.

The volume edited by Alexander B. Grosart as The Dr. Farmer Chetham MS. being a Commonplace Book in the Chetham Library, Manchester, temp. Elizabeth, James I, and Charles I, Chetham Society, vols 89 and 90 (Manchester, 1873).

Chetham's Library, Manchester (Mun. A.4.15 ff. 58r-61r (pp. 89-94))

Dramatic Works

Gesta Grayorum

See John Hoskyns, Fustian Speech, HoJ 342.5-344.

RuB 3 c.1650

Copy of an account of the revels, in a predominantly secretary hand, headed Noctes Templariæ Or a breife chronicle of the dark Raigne of the bright Prince of burning Loue, subscribed Benjamin Rudier.

A folio composite volume of state and legal tracts, papers and speeches, in several hands, with (f. 4r) an Index of contents, 338 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1000 through 1999 (Harley MS 1576 ff. 247r-50v)

Le Prince d'Amour, or The Prince of Love

See John Hoskyns, Fustian Speech, HoJ 342.5-344.

Speeches

Speech in the House of Commons, March 1623/4

Speech beginning We are bound to bless God that we are mett againe in this place. And we ought to acknowledge his Ma^ts favour towards vs....

RuB 4

Copy, headed S^r Beniamin Rudiers speech taken as he spake it; being y^e first in y^e greate busines concerning y^e Treaties.

A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, chiefly in one mixed hand, 77 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

Compiled by Sir Thomas Dawes (knighted 1639).

c.1623-30

Purchased on 4 July 1873 from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 29492 ff. 13v-16r)

RuB 5 c.1620s-30s

Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, headed S^r Beniamin Rudiers Speech about the two Treaties taken verbatim as he spake it: Being the first Speech made touching that great busines of the Treaties 1^o Martij 1623.

A folio composite volume of parliamentary speeches and proceedings, 1620/1-28, in various professional hands, 395 leaves, in half morocco gilt.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6799 f. 182r-v)

RuB 5.5 c.1630s

Copy, headed S^r Beniamin Rudiers speache taken as he spake it, being y^e first in y^e great busieness concerninge y^e Treatie.

A small quarto volume of state tracts and papers, in one or more cursive secretary hands, 236 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

c.1620s

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 156 ff. 102v-4v)

RuB 6

A quarto volume of proceedings in the House of Commons in 1624, in at least two probably professional cursive hands, 249 pages (plus numerous blanks and eight pages of shorthand at the reverse end), in contemporary vellum.

c.1624

[?Sotheby's], 31 March 1936, lot 174.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 980 pp. 41-2)

RuB 7 c.1620s

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed S^r Beniamyn Rudyers Speech taken as he spake itt, beinge the first in the greate businesse concerninge the Treatise, undated, beginning on the verso of a speech by the Duke of Buckingham dated 24 February 1624, in a section on parliamentary proceedings.

A folio composite volume of state letters, tracts, parliamentary speeches, etc., in various professional hands, c.160 leaves, in contemporary calf.

A flyleaf inscribed This belongs to M^rs Carewe of Crowcombe, Co. Somerset / T Philli: i.e.formerly among the Carew MSS at Crowcombe Court, Somerset, and borrowed at some time by Sir Thomas Phillips, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 373.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 1266.2 ff. [125v-6r])

RuB 8

Copy, introduced S^r Beniamin Rudierd was the first that spake in the great busines and because it was all soe wayghtye as cannot be abbreviated w^thout losse and was indeed the mold of the Resolucon of the whole Parliament it shalbe Entred more at large.

A folio volume of parliamentary speeches and proceedings between 1623/4 and 1640, in two or more professional predominantly secretary hands, 120 leaves, the first series foliated 1-99, the second series paginated 1-4, 37-70, 81-3, in vellum boards.

c.1640

Northamptonshire Record Office (FH 50 ff. 10v-11v (first series))

RuB 9 c.1620s-30s

Copy, headed S^r Beniamyn Rudyerd concerning Assistance to be yealded for the support of the aduise to dissolue the Treaties; The first upon that day March 11^th. 1623.

A folio composite volume of parliamentary speeches and proceedings, 1620/1-28, in various professional hands, 395 leaves, in half morocco gilt.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6799 f. 201r-v)

RuB 10 c.1620s-30s

Copy, in a Professional cursive secretary hand, headed S^r Ben. Rudyerds speech taken as he spake it being the first concerning the Kes demand of pticular Ayde. 19 Martij: 1623.

A folio composite volume of parliamentary speeches and proceedings, 1620/1-28, in various professional hands, 395 leaves, in half morocco gilt.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6799 f. 221r-v)

RuB 11

Copy, headed S^r Beniamin Rudiere:.

c.1624

[?Sotheby's], 31 March 1936, lot 174.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 980 pp. 123-4)

Speech in the House of Commons, c.20-22 March 1627/8

Speech. Yale 1628, II, 58-60, two parallel versions: (1) beginning This is the crisis of parliaments...; (2) beginning It is the goodness of God and the favour of the King...; II, 68, third version, beginning If we be thankful, all is well. By this we shall know whether parliaments will live or die...; II, 73, fourth, brief reported version, beginning We are not now upon the bene esse of our kingdom but the esse....

RuB 12

Copy of Version 1, in a neat secretary hand, with a correction in the fourth Earl of Bedford's hand, headed The effect of S^r Beniamine Ruddiers three speeches in Parliament 4o Carol 1628 / 1. speech.

A folio commonplace book, in several hands, begun 18 May 1626, written from both ends, with two tables of contents, 415 pages of text, in contemporary leather with traces of metal clasps.

Compiled by, and partly in the rugged italic hand of, Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.

c.1626-30s

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.

The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS No. 22 pp. 11-12)

RuB 13

Copy, headed Beniamin Rudyeard.

A folio volume of speeches principally by Francis Bacon, in two or more neat secretary hands, 204 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary limp vellum.

Owned by, and occasionally annotated in the rugged italic hand of, Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.

c.1628-30s

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 2.

The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS No. 192 pp. 195-8)

RuB 14

Copy, headed in the margin Sir Beniamine Rudyer.

A folio volume of parliamentary proceedings, 17 May 1627/8 to 26 June 1628, in several professional predominantly secretary hands, 660 leaves, in half brown morocco.

c.1630

Presented by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), American financier and collector.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 36825 ff. 30v-3r)

RuB 15

Copy, headed S^r Beniamine Riddiards speech at the same tyme.

A folio volume comprising chiefly a parliamentary journal, 1627-8, in a single professional secretary hand but for a tipped-in calendar (f. [305 bis]), 401 leaves, in mottled leather gilt.

c.1630

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 2000 through 2999 (Harley MS 2305 ff. 46v-8v)

RuB 16

Copy, headed in the margin S^r Ben. Ruddyer.

A folio volume comprising proceedings and speeches in Parliament, 17 March to 22 May 1628, in two or more professional mixed hands, 201 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Mid-17th century

Bookplate of John Holles (1662-1711), Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne, politician.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 4000 through 4999 (Harley MS 4771 ff. 17v-18v)

RuB 17 c.1620s-30s

Copy, headed A speech made by S^r Ben Ruddyard in the comons house of plm^t March 22. 1627.

A folio composite volume of parliamentary speeches and proceedings, 1620/1-28, in various professional hands, 395 leaves, in half morocco gilt.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6799 f. 333r-v)

RuB 18

Copy, headed at the side S^r. Beniamin Rudyard.

A folio volume of parliamentary speeches from 3 March 1627/8 to 16 May 1628, in a single professional mixed hand, i + 303 leaves (plus two blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.1628

Exeter College, Oxford (MS 100 ff. 27r-9r)

RuB 19

Copy, headed S^r: Beniamins Rudyards speech 22^o March, 1627^o.

A quarto volume of speeches in Parliament 1627-8, in a single professional secretary hand, 388 pages (plus numerous blanks), bound with a twenty-page printed pamphlet, in contemporary calf (repaired).

c.1630

Harvard Law School Library (HLS MS 4124 (Hollis No. 005349085) pp. 51-4)

RuB 20

Copy, headed S^r. Beniamin Ruddyard speech xxij^th of March 1627.

A folio volume of speeches and proceedings in Parliament 1627-29, in several professional hands, 380 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1630

Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, dated 1701.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 917 Item 2, ff. 28r-30v)

RuB 21

Copy, headed A Speeche made by Sir Beniamin Rudyard in the Comons house of Parliament March. 22. 1628.

A folio volume of speeches and proceedings in Parliament 1627-29, in several professional hands, 380 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1630

Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, dated 1701.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 917 Item 2, ff. 197r-200r)

RuB 22

Copy, headed A speech made by S^r Beniamyn Ridearde in the house of Comons of Parliament xx^o Martij 1627.

A folio volume of speeches in Parliament 1627/8-1638, in a single professional hand, 163 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum.

c.1630

Phillipps MS 20758. Donated by William Appleton Coolidge.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 1081 ff. 21v-3v)

RuB 23

Copy, headed in the margin S^r Beniamin Rudyer, here beginning This is the crisis of Pliam^tes we shall knoue by this If pliam^tes liue or die....

A folio volume of proceedings in Parliament in 1628, in a professional secretary hand, 283 leaves, in blind-stamped calf.

c.1630

A flyleaf inscribed Thomas Wallcut bought at the sale of the Library of the late D Byles Novem^r 1790 and also Thomas Wallcutt April 9. 1791: i.e. once owned by Mather Byles (1706-88), Boston loyalist clergyman, and bought in 1790 by Thomas Wallcut (1758-1840), Boston antiquary.

Recorded in Yale 1628, I, 5 (as MS. 3).

Massachusetts Historical Society (Ms. N-1325 ff. 13v-14r)

RuB 24

Copy, headed S^r Beniamin Ruddiard 22: Martij: 1627[/8].

A folio volume of speeches and proceedings in Parliament 1628, in a single professional secretary hand, viii + 459 pages, in contemporary calf.

c.1628-30s

Bookplate of E.S. and H. Lloyd. Purchased from Peter Eaton (Booksellers) Ltd, 24 October 1967. Formerly House of Lords Record Office, Historical Collection 50.

Parliamentary Archives (HL/PO/RO/1/37 pp. 63-6)

RuB 25 c.1628

Copy, untitled.

A folio composite volume of parliamentary speeches, in various professional hands, 389 pages, in contemporary calf.

The Queen's College, Oxford (MS 172 pp. 145-7)

Speech in the House of Commons, c.22 March 1627/8

Speech beginning Of the mischiefs that have lately fallen upon us by the late distractions here is every man sensible....

RuB 26

Copy, with sidenote 22 Mch S^r Beniamin Rudyerd.

A folio volume chiefly of speeches and proceedings in the House of Commons chiefly from March to June 1628, in a professional secretary hand, iv + 64 leaves (plus blanks), in later half calf.

c.1630

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. C. 687 f. 10v)

RuB 27

Copy, headed S^r Beniamin Rydgers speech 22 Mar: 1627.

A quarto volume of speeches and proceedings in the House of Commons from March to April 1628, in a professional hand, 353 pages, in contemporary calf.

c.1630

Once owned by John Somers (1651-1716), Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor, and by his brother-in-law Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662-1738), lawyer and politician (No. 387 in the sale catalogue of his library, 1759).

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. C. 807 pp. 87-8)

RuB 28

Copy.

A folio composite volume of state papers and parliamentary proceedings, in various hands, 181 leaves.

Once owned by one John Holland.

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 276 f. 75r)

RuB 29

Copy, headed S^r Beniamyn Rudyards speech 22 Mar: 1627.

A folio volume of speeches and proceedings in Parliament from 17 March 1627/8 to 26 June 1628, in several professional secretary hands, 387 leaves, with (ff. 2r-11r) a neat table of contents, in contemporary vellum boards.

c.1630

Christie's, 12 June 1881 (Fairfax sale).

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 5000 through 5999 (Add. MS 8827 ff. 54v-5r)

RuB 30 c.1630s

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed S^r Beniamyn Riddiards speech 22^o Marcij 1627.

A folio composite volume of state papers and parliamentary speeches, in various professional hands, 442 leaves, in mottled leather gilt.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1000 through 1999 (Harley MS 1219 ff. 263r-5v)

RuB 31

Copy, headed Sir Ben Rudiards speech.

A folio volume of proceedings in Parliament in 1628-29, in professional secretary hands, 339 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

c.1630s

1725, the date of accession into the Harley Library, inscribed by Wanley on f. 1r.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1000 through 1999 (Harley MS 1721 ff. 30r-1r)

RuB 32

Copy, headed s^r Beniamin Ruddiard.

A folio volume of parliamentary proceedings and speeches, 1623-8, in a single professional secretary hand, with a table of contents (ff. 2*^r-5*^r), 731 pages, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

c.1630

Inscribed (f. [i^r]) Humfry Burton.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6255 pp. 307-8)

RuB 33 c.1620s-30s

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed S^r Beniamin Ruddiers speech 22: March. 1627.

A folio composite volume of parliamentary speeches and proceedings, 1620/1-28, in various professional hands, 395 leaves, in half morocco gilt.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6799 f. 358r)

RuB 34 c.1630

Copy, headed S^r: Ben: Ruddiers first speech.

A quarto composite volume of state papers and speeches, in several hands, ff. 153r-97r in a single professional hand, 197 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards.

c.1630s

Once owned by John Hart and John Ashton.

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 826 f. 47r-v)

RuB 35 c.1630

Copy, headed S^r. Beniamin Ridger his speech. 22. Mar: 1627.

A folio composite volume of state tracts, in various professional hands, 124 leaves (including blanks), in half-calf on marbled boards.

Cambridge University Library, shelfmarks M through end (MS Mm. 4. 24 f. 70r-v)

RuB 36 c.1630

Copy, in a cursive predominantly secretary hand, headed S^r Beniamon Ridier.

A folio composite volume of state papers and proceedings in Parliament, in various hands, 448 leaves (plus blanks), in red morocco gilt.

Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 538, Vol. 18 ff. 26v)

RuB 37

Copy, headed S^r Beniamin Rudiards speech.

Copies of two parliamentary speeches and one letter, in a predominantly italic hand, on two conjugate folio leaves, unbound.

c.1628-30s

Northamptonshire Record Office (FH 3703 p. [3])

RuB 37.5

Copy.

Two folio composite volumes of state tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, in 19th-century half-vellum marbled boards gilt.

Mostyn MS 177: from the library of the Mostyn family, of Mostyn Hall, Flintshire, and Gloddaeth, Denbighshire, whose notable book and manuscript collectors included Sir Thomas Mostyn (1651-1700?) and his grandson Sir Thomas Mostyn, fourth Baronet (1704-58).

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 355.

University of Kansas (MS E205 Vol. II, ff. 8r-12r)

RuB 37.8

Copy, headed S^r Benjamin Rudiere: his Speech in Parliament March the 22^th 1628.

A folio composite volume of parliamentary speeches of 1628-9, in various professional secretary hands, 215 leaves, in modern reversed calf.

c.1630

Probably Sotheby's, 28 April 1969, lot 50.

University of Texas at Austin (HRC 76 f. 56r)

RuB 38

Copy, headed S^r Benjamin Ruddierds Speech 22. March. 1627.

A folio volume chiefly comprising a journal of parliamentary speeches and proceedings in 1627-8, 187 pages (plus blank pages 288-656), in contemporary vellum.

Mid-late 17th century

Dr Williams's Library (MS Morrice E p. 27)

Speech in the House of Commons, c.2-9 April 1628

Speech beginning The best thanks we can return his Ma^tie for his gracious and religious answer....

RuB 39

Copy, headed S^r Benjamin Ruddierds Speech upon the Receipt of his Ma^ties Answer to the Petition against Recusants. 9. April. 1628.

A folio volume chiefly comprising a journal of parliamentary speeches and proceedings in 1627-8, 187 pages (plus blank pages 288-656), in contemporary vellum.

Mid-late 17th century

Dr Williams's Library (MS Morrice E pp. 37-8)

RuB 40

Copy, headed in the margin S^r Ben: Rudyer.

A folio volume of parliamentary proceedings, 17 May 1627/8 to 26 June 1628, in several professional predominantly secretary hands, 660 leaves, in half brown morocco.

c.1630

Presented by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), American financier and collector.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 36825 f. 109r-v)

RuB 41

Copy, headed S^r Beniamin Ruddiers speech vpon the receipt of his Mat^es answeare to the peticon against Recusants circa. 9 Aprill: 1628.

c.1630

Christie's, 12 June 1881 (Fairfax sale).

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 5000 through 5999 (Add. MS 8827 ff. 181r-2v)

RuB 42

Copy, headed S^r Beniamyn Rudyard his Speech vpon the receipt of his Ma^tis: Answere to the Petition against Recusants 9^th: of Aprill: 1628.

A folio volume comprising chiefly a parliamentary journal, 1627-8, in a single professional secretary hand but for a tipped-in calendar (f. [305 bis]), 401 leaves, in mottled leather gilt.

c.1630

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 2000 through 2999 (Harley MS 2305 ff. 161v-3r)

RuB 43

Copy, headed S^r Beniamin Ruddiard his speech vpon receipt of his Ma^t^es answere to the last Peticon.

c.1630

Inscribed (f. [i^r]) Humfry Burton.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6255 pp. 442-7)

RuB 44 c.1628-30s

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed A speach made by S^r Ben: Rudiard in the house of Comons one the second Day of Apr 1628 and docketed in the margin Wednesday the 2 of Aprill 1628.

A folio composite volume of parliamentary speeches and related papers, in various professional hands, in modern red morocco gilt.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6800 f. 95r-v)

RuB 45 c.1628-30s

Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, headed A speech made by S^r Ben. Rudyard in the house of Coons Wednesday the 2. Daie of Aprill 1628, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate small folio leaves, with a scribal endorsement.

A folio composite volume of parliamentary speeches and related papers, in various professional hands, in modern red morocco gilt.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6800 f. 96r-v)

RuB 46 c.1630

Copy, headed S^r Ben: Ruddiers 2 speech.

A quarto composite volume of state papers and speeches, in several hands, ff. 153r-97r in a single professional hand, 197 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards.

c.1630s

Once owned by John Hart and John Ashton.

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 826 ff. 100r-1r)

RuB 47

Copy, headed at the side S^r. Ben: Rudyer.

A folio volume of parliamentary speeches from 3 March 1627/8 to 16 May 1628, in a single professional mixed hand, i + 303 leaves (plus two blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.1628

Exeter College, Oxford (MS 100 f. 94r-v)

RuB 48

Copy, headed S^r Beniamyn Riddiarde speech [space] of Aprille [space] 1628.

A folio volume of speeches in Parliament 1627/8-1638, in a single professional hand, 163 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum.

c.1630

Phillipps MS 20758. Donated by William Appleton Coolidge.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 1081 ff. 50v-1v)

RuB 49

Copy, headed in the margin S^r Beniamin Rudyer and here beginning The best thankes we canne Render to his Ma^tie is to mak towards such a way as may secure his Ma^tie and our selues....

A folio volume of proceedings in Parliament in 1628, in a professional secretary hand, 283 leaves, in blind-stamped calf.

c.1630

Recorded in Yale 1628, I, 5 (as MS. 3).

Massachusetts Historical Society (Ms. N-1325 f. 55r-v)

RuB 50

Copy, headed 9: Aprill: 1628: S^r Beniamin Ruddiards speech.

A folio volume of speeches and proceedings in Parliament 1628, in a single professional secretary hand, viii + 459 pages, in contemporary calf.

c.1628-30s

Bookplate of E.S. and H. Lloyd. Purchased from Peter Eaton (Booksellers) Ltd, 24 October 1967. Formerly House of Lords Record Office, Historical Collection 50.

Parliamentary Archives (HL/PO/RO/1/37 pp. 135-6)

RuB 51

Copy, headed S^r. Beniamine Ruddierds Speech the 9^th day of Aprill 1628

A folio volume of parliamentary speeches and proceedings in 1628-9, in a single small mixed hand, 44 leaves, in a paper wrapper.

c.1630

Among the papers of the Carew family, of Crowcombe Court, Somerset.

Somerset Heritage Centre (DD/TB/18/24 f. [13r-v])

Speech in the House of Commons, ?4 April 1628

Speech beginning We have received many gracious messages from His Majesty. It is now high time to give thanks.... Yale 1628, II, 297 and 317; variant versions II, 303, 309, 313-14.

RuB 52

Copy.

A folio composite volume of state papers and parliamentary proceedings, in various hands, 181 leaves.

Once owned by one John Holland.

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 276 f. 24r)

RuB 53

Copy, headed in the margin [S^r] Ben: Rudyard.

A folio volume of parliamentary proceedings, 17 May 1627/8 to 26 June 1628, in several professional predominantly secretary hands, 660 leaves, in half brown morocco.

c.1630

Presented by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), American financier and collector.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 36825 ff. 132v-3r)

RuB 54

Copy, headed in the margin S^r Ben Rudyard.

Mid-17th century

Bookplate of John Holles (1662-1711), Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne, politician.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 4000 through 4999 (Harley MS 4771 f. 60v)

RuB 55

Copy, headed in the margin (slightly cropped) S[^r] Beniamin Rudyer.

A folio volume of proceedings in Parliament in 1628, in a professional secretary hand, 283 leaves, in blind-stamped calf.

c.1630

Recorded in Yale 1628, I, 5 (as MS. 3).

Massachusetts Historical Society (Ms. N-1325 ff. 68v-9r)

Speech in the House of Commons, 28 April 1628

Speech beginning We are here upon a great business.... Yale 1628, III, 127-9 and 133-4. Variants: III, 138-9, 141, 143, and 161. Variant version in Manning, pp. 126-8.

RuB 56

Copy, untitled.

A folio volume of speeches principally by Francis Bacon, in two or more neat secretary hands, 204 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary limp vellum.

Owned by, and occasionally annotated in the rugged italic hand of, Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.

c.1628-30s

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 2.

The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS No. 192 pp. 201-4)

RuB 57

Copy, headed S^r Beniamin Ruddiers speech 28 Aprill: 1628.

A quarto volume of speeches and proceedings in the House of Commons from March to April 1628, in a professional hand, 353 pages, in contemporary calf.

c.1630

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. C. 807 pp. 272-7)

RuB 58

Copy.

A folio composite volume of state papers and parliamentary proceedings, in various hands, 181 leaves.

Once owned by one John Holland.

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 276 f. 111r)

RuB 59

Copy, headed S^r Beniamin Ruddiers speech, 28 Aprill 1628.

c.1630

Christie's, 12 June 1881 (Fairfax sale).

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 5000 through 5999 (Add. MS 8827 ff. 220v-3v)

RuB 60 c.1628

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed S^r Beniamine Rudyardes speech in the howse of Comons on the 28^th of Aprill. 1628, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

An unbound collection of papers largely relating to parliamentary proceedings, in various hands, 108 generally folio leaves.

Volume CCCCLXXXV of the Evelyn Papers.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78652 [unnunbered pages])

RuB 61

Copy, headed S^r Beniamyn Rudiards Speach. 28 April.

A folio volume of proceedings in Parliament in 1628-29, in professional secretary hands, 339 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

c.1630s

1725, the date of accession into the Harley Library, inscribed by Wanley on f. 1r.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1000 through 1999 (Harley MS 1721 ff. 196v-200r)

RuB 62

Copy, headed in the margin S^r Ben Rudyard.

Mid-17th century

Bookplate of John Holles (1662-1711), Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne, politician.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 4000 through 4999 (Harley MS 4771 ff. 118v-20r)

RuB 63

Copy, headed S^r Beniamin Ruddiard speech in the house of Commons Aprill 28^o 1628.

c.1630

Inscribed (f. [i^r]) Humfry Burton.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6255 pp. 482-90)

RuB 64 c.1620s-30s

Copy, in a prodessional secretary hand, headed Beniamin Ruddiers speech Aprilis 28. 1628.

A folio composite volume of parliamentary speeches and proceedings, 1620/1-28, in various professional hands, 395 leaves, in half morocco gilt.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6799 ff. 384v-5v)

RuB 65 c.1628-30s

Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, headed A speech made by S^r Ben. Rudyard in the house of Coons on the 28. of Aprill 1628, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

A folio composite volume of parliamentary speeches and related papers, in various professional hands, in modern red morocco gilt.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6800 ff. 231r-2r)

RuB 66 c.1628-30s

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed A Speech made by S^r Ben. Rudyard in the house of Coons on the 28 Aprill 1628, docketed in the margin Monday 28 Aprill 1628.

A folio composite volume of parliamentary speeches and related papers, in various professional hands, in modern red morocco gilt.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6800 ff. 233r-4r)

RuB 67

Copy, headed at the side S^r. Beniamin Rudyer.

A folio volume of parliamentary speeches from 3 March 1627/8 to 16 May 1628, in a single professional mixed hand, i + 303 leaves (plus two blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.1628

Exeter College, Oxford (MS 100 ff. 228r-30v)

RuB 68

Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, docketed in another hand of Sir Benjamin Rudyard.

A large folio composite volume of state papers, letters and speeches, in English and Latin prose and verse, in various hands, 58 items, i + 449 leaves.

Given by William Moore.

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (MS 73/40 ff. 169r-70r)

RuB 69 c.1630

Copy, headed S^r. Beniamin Rudyard his speech the xxviij^th of Aprill 1628 in the howse of Comons.

A folio composite volume of speeches in Parliament 1627-8, in two or three professional secretary hands, 101 pages, in 19th-century diced russia.

From the Fairfax papers. Phillipps MS 10305. Given to the library by William Appleton Coolidge.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 1080 pp. 75-7)

RuB 70

Copy, headed S^r: Beniamin Rudiard: the 28th Aprill: 1628.

A folio volume of speeches in Parliament 1628-29, in one or more secretary hands, 79 leaves (plus blanks), in morocco gilt.

c.1630s

Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 538, Vol. 9 ff. 19r-20r)

RuB 71 c.1630s

Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, headed S^r Beniamin Rudyards Speech in the house of Commons on the 28_th of Aprill. 1628.

A folio composite volume of state papers and proceedings in Parliament, in various hands, 448 leaves (plus blanks), in red morocco gilt.

Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 538, Vol. 18 ff. 436r-7r)

RuB 72

Copy, headed S^r Beniamine Ruddiers speech 28 Aprill 1628.

A folio volume of parliamentary debates in 1627/8-9, in several professional secretary hands, 351 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt, with traces of ties.

Bookplate of the Earl of Aylesford, Packington, Warwickshire. Bernard Halliday, Leicester, sale catalogue 1930, item 568.

The University of Manchester Library (English MS 522 ff. 81r-3v)

RuB 73

Copy, headed in the margin S^r Ben: Rudye[cropped].

A folio volume of proceedings in Parliament in 1628, in a professional secretary hand, 283 leaves, in blind-stamped calf.

c.1630

Recorded in Yale 1628, I, 5 (as MS. 3).

Massachusetts Historical Society (Ms. N-1325 ff. 133r-4r)

RuB 74 c.1628-30s

Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, headed S^r: Beniamin Rudiers speech 20^th of April 1628, on two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet, endorsed A copie of S^r Beniamin Rudyers speech 1618.

A folio composite volume of parliamentary speeches, letters and documents, in various hands and paper sizes, 81 items, all mounted on guards, in 19th-century brown morocco.

Among papers of the Montagu family, Barons and Dukes of Montagu, of Boughton House.

Northamptonshire Record Office (Montagu (Boughton) Letterbook 29 item 36)

RuB 75

Copy, headed S^r Beniamine Ruddiers speech 28 April 1628.

A folio journal of the House of Commons from 17 March 1627/8 to 26 June 1628, in a single professional secretary hand, including (ff. 420r-9r) a Table of contents, 429 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt with traces of ties.

c.1630

Among the Braye Manuscripts, descending from John Browne (1608-91), Clerk of the Parliaments, whose daughter, Martha, married Sir Roger Cave, Bt, of Stanford Hall, Rugby, seat of successive Lords Braye.

Parliamentary Archives (BRY/89 ff. 87r-9v)

RuB 76

Copy, headed S^r Beniamin Ruddiard: 28^th of Aprill: 1628: in the House of Comons.

A folio volume of speeches and proceedings in Parliament 1628, in a single professional secretary hand, viii + 459 pages, in contemporary calf.

c.1628-30s

Bookplate of E.S. and H. Lloyd. Purchased from Peter Eaton (Booksellers) Ltd, 24 October 1967. Formerly House of Lords Record Office, Historical Collection 50.

Parliamentary Archives (HL/PO/RO/1/37 pp. 191-4)

RuB 77 c.1628

Copy, headed at the side S^r. Beniamin Rudyere 28^o April 1628.

A folio composite volume of parliamentary speeches, in various professional hands, 389 pages, in contemporary calf.

The Queen's College, Oxford (MS 172 pp. 137-9)

RuB 78

Copy, headed S^r Beniamin Ruddyers speach the same day, in the howse of Comons.

A quarto volume of speeches in Parliament 1626-9, in one or possibly two secretary hands, iv + 87 leaves, in half-calf on marbled boards.

c.1630s

Signature (on a slip affixed to f. [ii^r]) of Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector.

Society of Antiquaries (MS 26 ff. 39r-40v)

RuB 79

Copy, headed S^r Beniamin Ruddierds Speech the Eight and twentieth day of Aprill 1628.

A folio volume of parliamentary speeches and proceedings in 1628-9, in a single small mixed hand, 44 leaves, in a paper wrapper.

c.1630

Among the papers of the Carew family, of Crowcombe Court, Somerset.

Somerset Heritage Centre (DD/TB/18/24 ff. [14r-15r])

RuB 80

Copy, headed S^r Beniamin Rudiards his speech the 28. of April 1628 in the House of Commons.

A quarto volume of state tracts and speeches, in possibly a single professional secretary hand, with a table of contents, 129 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

c.1630s

Inscribed on the last page Elizabeth Tyrrell. Old pressmark K. 4. 15.

Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 200 through 799 (MS 727 ff. 63r-5v)

RuB 81 c.1628-30s

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed M^r Beniamin Ruddyers speech 28^th Ap 1628.

A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, with a table of contents, 599 leaves.

Inscribed (f. 141r) John: Saunders is the trew owner of this booke, Captaine Christo: Blounte, and Valentine LLawless.

Owned by John Madden, MD (1649-1703/4), physician and manuscript collector. Old pressmark F. 1. 20.

Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 800 through end (MS 806 ff. 486r-v)

RuB 82 c.1630

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed S^r Beniamen Rudyards his Speech the 28 of Aprill 1628 in the house of Commons.

A folio composite volume of parliamentary speeches from 1609 to 1628, in several professional secretary hands, c.414 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf.

Three interim title-pages for separate groups in the hand of the Feathery Scribe, namely Divers Speeches and passages in Parliament viz:, Divers Passages and Speeches Off Parliam^te viz:, and A: Collection Off such Thinges, As Robte Earle of Salisburye thought fitt to offer vnto his Ma^tie: vppon the occasion of callinge a Parliam^te: viz.

One later section (A Booke of the last Parliament, 44 leaves) inscribed Tho: Becke. Old pressmark G. 3. 4.

Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 800 through end (MS 858 Unnumbered section, ff. 14r-16r)

Speech in the House of Commons, c.30 April 1628

Speech beginning We have been long about framing of words for a strong law.... Yale 1628, III, 172. Variant versions: III, 175, 179, 180, 181-2.

RuB 83

Copy, headed Sir Beniamyne Rudyer at a Committee of the whole house.

A folio volume of parliamentary proceedings, 17 May 1627/8 to 26 June 1628, in several professional predominantly secretary hands, 660 leaves, in half brown morocco.

c.1630

Presented by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), American financier and collector.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 36825 ff. 260v-1r)

RuB 84

Copy, headed in the margin S^r Ben: Rudyer at a Comittee of the whole howse.

Mid-17th century

Bookplate of John Holles (1662-1711), Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne, politician.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 4000 through 4999 (Harley MS 4771 ff. 124v-5r)

RuB 85

Copy, headed S^r Beniamyn Rudyer atc.

A folio volume of parliamentary speeches from 3 March 1627/8 to 16 May 1628, in a single professional mixed hand, i + 303 leaves (plus two blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.1628

Exeter College, Oxford (MS 100 f. 239r)

Speech in the House of Commons, early May 1628

A brief speech beginning I am sorry that that which I have said....

RuB 86

Copy, headed in the margin Sir Beniamyne Rudyer.

A folio volume of parliamentary proceedings, 17 May 1627/8 to 26 June 1628, in several professional predominantly secretary hands, 660 leaves, in half brown morocco.

c.1630

Presented by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), American financier and collector.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 36825 f. 262v)

RuB 87

Copy, headed S^r. Beniamyn Rudyer.

A folio volume of parliamentary speeches from 3 March 1627/8 to 16 May 1628, in a single professional mixed hand, i + 303 leaves (plus two blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.1628

Exeter College, Oxford (MS 100 f. 240r)

Speech in the House of Commons, May 1628

Speech beginning Justice ought to be a great favourer of the Innocent....

RuB 88

Copy, headed in the margin Sir Benia: Rudyer.

A folio volume of parliamentary proceedings, 17 May 1627/8 to 26 June 1628, in several professional predominantly secretary hands, 660 leaves, in half brown morocco.

c.1630

Presented by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), American financier and collector.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 36825 f. 323r-v)

RuB 89

Copy, headed S^r Beniamyn Rudyer.

A folio volume of parliamentary speeches from 3 March 1627/8 to 16 May 1628, in a single professional mixed hand, i + 303 leaves (plus two blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.1628

Exeter College, Oxford (MS 100 f. 298r-v)

Speech in the House of Commons, c.16 May 1628

Speech beginning I would we were as ready to reward as punish....

RuB 90

Copy, headed in the margin S^r Beniamine Rudyer.

A folio volume of parliamentary proceedings, 17 May 1627/8 to 26 June 1628, in several professional predominantly secretary hands, 660 leaves, in half brown morocco.

c.1630

Presented by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), American financier and collector.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 36825 f. 326v)

RuB 91

Copy, headed S^r. Beniamyn Rudyer.

A folio volume of parliamentary speeches from 3 March 1627/8 to 16 May 1628, in a single professional mixed hand, i + 303 leaves (plus two blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.1628

Exeter College, Oxford (MS 100 f. 301r-v)

RuB 92

Copy, headed S^r Beniamin Ruddier.

c.1630

Parliamentary Archives (BRY/89 f. 329r)

Speech in the House of Commons, ?22 May 1628

Speech beginning I did not think to have spoken.... First published, as Sir Benjamin Rudierd His speech in Behalfe of the Clergie and of Parishes destitute of Instruction through want of Maintenance, Oxford, 1628. Manning, pp. 135-8. Yale 1628, III, 17-19, where it is dated probably 21 April 1628.

RuB 93

Copy.

A folio composite volume of state papers and parliamentary proceedings, in various hands, 181 leaves.

Once owned by one John Holland.

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 276 f. 100r)

RuB 94

Copy, headed S^r Beniamin Ruddiers speech: 22 May 1628. Concerning Ministers.

c.1630

Christie's, 12 June 1881 (Fairfax sale).

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 5000 through 5999 (Add. MS 8827 ff. 266r-9r)

RuB 95

Copy, headed S^ir Beniamyn Rudyards Speach concerning the Mainteynance of Mynisters and dated 22^o May 1628.

A folio volume of proceedings in Parliament in 1628-29, in professional secretary hands, 339 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

c.1630s

1725, the date of accession into the Harley Library, inscribed by Wanley on f. 1r.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1000 through 1999 (Harley MS 1721 ff. 240v-3v)

RuB 96 c.1630

Copy, in a professional predominantly italic hand, headed S^r Benjamin Rudyerd his speeche, on two conjugate folio leaves.

A folio composite volume of parliamentary papers and speeches, 1627-28, in various professional hands, 113 leaves, in modern panelled calf.

The date of acquisition for the Harley Library inscribed by Wanley (f. 1*r) 13 August, 1724.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 2000 through 2999 (Harley MS 2217 ff. 29r-30v)

RuB 97

Copy, headed S^r Beniamine Ruddyers speech concerning Ministers the 22^th of May: 1628.

A folio volume comprising chiefly a parliamentary journal, 1627-8, in a single professional secretary hand but for a tipped-in calendar (f. [305 bis]), 401 leaves, in mottled leather gilt.

c.1630

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 2000 through 2999 (Harley MS 2305 ff. 236r-8v)

RuB 98 c.1628-30s

Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, headed A Speech made by S^r Ben Rudyard at a Comittee himselfe sitting in the Chaire, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

A folio composite volume of parliamentary speeches and related papers, in various professional hands, in modern red morocco gilt.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6800 ff. 333r-4r)

RuB 99 c.1628-30s

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed A Speach made by S^r Ben Rudiard at a Comittee, M^r Pyme in the Chare, docketed in the margin quere the date. Satterday the 24 of May 1628.

A folio composite volume of parliamentary speeches and related papers, in various professional hands, in modern red morocco gilt.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6800 ff. 335r-6r)

RuB 100

Copy, headed Sir Beniamin Rudierd his Speach in behalf of y^e Clergie and of parishes miserably destitute of Instruction thro want of Maintenance, confirmed by the testimonies of Bp Jewel, Master Perkins and S^r Henry Spelman, Edited at Oxford 1628. 4to and here beginning Bp Jewell in his Sermon before Qu. Eliz....

A quarto composite volume of MSS, in several hands, 190 leaves, in modern leather gilt.

Volume VI of the miscellaneous historical collections of White Kennett (1660-1728), Bishop of Peterborough, historian.

17th century

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 940 ff. 77r-8v)

RuB 101

Copy, headed Sir Beniamin Ruddyarts speech Concerning maintenance of ministers the 22^th: of May 1628.

A folio volume of speeches and proceedings in Parliament 1627-29, in several professional hands, 380 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

c.1630

Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, dated 1701.

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 917 Item 2, ff. 251v-4v)

RuB 102

Copy, headed S^r: Beniamin Ruddierds speech to the Committee for Religion.

A folio volume of parliamentary debates in 1627/8-9, in several professional secretary hands, 351 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt, with traces of ties.

Bookplate of the Earl of Aylesford, Packington, Warwickshire. Bernard Halliday, Leicester, sale catalogue 1930, item 568.

The University of Manchester Library (English MS 522 ff. 268r-70v)

RuB 103

Copy, headed May 22^th: 1628 S^r Beniamin Ruddiards speech.

A folio volume of speeches and proceedings in Parliament 1628, in a single professional secretary hand, viii + 459 pages, in contemporary calf.

c.1628-30s

Bookplate of E.S. and H. Lloyd. Purchased from Peter Eaton (Booksellers) Ltd, 24 October 1967. Formerly House of Lords Record Office, Historical Collection 50.

Parliamentary Archives (HL/PO/RO/1/37 pp. 212-15)

Speech in the House of Commons, 6 June 1628

An eight-line speech beginning This day is appointed for the consideration of his Majesty's answer to our petition....

RuB 104

Copy, headed in the margin S^r Ben Ridyer.

A folio volume of parliamentary proceedings, 17 May 1627/8 to 26 June 1628, in several professional predominantly secretary hands, 660 leaves, in half brown morocco.

c.1630

Presented by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), American financier and collector.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 36825 ff. 446v-7r)

RuB 105

A brief summary, headed S^r Ben: Rudyer.

A folio volume of proceedings in Parliament in 1628, in a professional secretary hand, 283 leaves, in blind-stamped calf.

c.1630

Recorded in Yale 1628, I, 5 (as MS. 3).

Massachusetts Historical Society (Ms. N-1325 f. 219r-v)

Speech in the House of Commons, c.11 June 1628

Speech beginning I hold the same ground still that I brought with me....

RuB 106

Copy, headed in the margin S^r Ben: Rudyer.

A folio volume of parliamentary proceedings, 17 May 1627/8 to 26 June 1628, in several professional predominantly secretary hands, 660 leaves, in half brown morocco.

c.1630

Presented by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), American financier and collector.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999 (Add. MS 36825 f. 479r-v)

RuB 107

Extracts, in a neat secretary hand, as 3 Speech under the heading The effect of S^r Beniamine Ruddiers three speeches in Parliament 4o Carol 1628

A folio commonplace book, in several hands, begun 18 May 1626, written from both ends, with two tables of contents, 415 pages of text, in contemporary leather with traces of metal clasps.

Compiled by, and partly in the rugged italic hand of, Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician.

c.1626-30s

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.

The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS No. 22 pp. 13-14)

RuB 108

Copy of a speech, headed at the side S^r. Ben: Rudyard.

A folio volume of parliamentary speeches from 3 March 1627/8 to 16 May 1628, in a single professional mixed hand, i + 303 leaves (plus two blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.1628

Exeter College, Oxford (MS 100 f. 116r)

RuB 109

Copies of three speeches in 1628.

A folio volume of proceedings in parliament in 1628, in several professional hands.

Free Library of Philadelphia (MS LC 14:64 [unspecified page numbers])

Speech in the House of Commons, 10 February 1628/9

A speech beginning There be diverse recantations, submissions and sentences remaining on record.... Variant versions include one beginning That there have been many publique censures and recantacions.... See Commons Debates for 1629, ed. Wallace Notestein and Frances Helen Relf (Minneapolis, 1921), pp. 137, [274]-5.

RuB 110

Copy, in a professional hand, headed S^r Ben Rudgers.

A tall folio volume of papers on parliamentary proceedings, in several professional hands, 109 leaves, in half-calf on marbled boards.

c.1630

Purchased from Lord R. Montagu in 1865.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 26634 f. 84v)

RuB 111 c.1629-30s

Copy, headed S^r Beniamin Ruddiers.

A folio composite volume of state papers and tracts, in various hands, c.410 leaves, in a recycled vellum document, now disbound.

Yelverton MS 110, among papers of Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 45000 through 49999 (Add. MS 48101 f. 47r)

RuB 112 c.1629-30s

Copy.

A folio composite volume of state papers and tracts, in various hands, c.410 leaves, in a recycled vellum document, now disbound.

Yelverton MS 110, among papers of Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 45000 through 49999 (Add. MS 48101 ff. 70v-1r)

RuB 113 c.1630

Copy, headed S^r Beniamen Ruddires, among proceedings in Parliament 1628.

A folio composite volume of antiquarian and parliamentary tracts, in various professional secretary hands, 245 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco in cloth boards gilt.

Inscribed (f. 2r) Sum Edw Umfrevile Jun^eis. Interioris Templi Studentis 1725. 10^o Aprilis: i.e. by Edward Umfreville (1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts. Bookplate (as Shelburne) of William Petty (1737-1805), second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister.

The British Library: Lansdowne MSS (Lansdowne MS 491 ff. 90v-1r)

RuB 113.5

Copy, headed S^r Beniamyn Rudyard, dated 10 February 1628.

A folio volume of proceedings in Parliament 1628/9, 60 leaves plus blanks, in contemporary limp vellum.

c.1629

Later owned by Thomas Martin (1697-1771) of Palgrave, antiquary and collector. Acquired by Charles Brietzcke (c.1738-95), government official, 19 May 1774. Later owned by Arthur Beauchesne, parliamentary clerk in Canada. Sotheby's, 15 July 2010, lot 3.

Gregory Baran and Laura Federighi Collection, Seattle ([no shelfmark] f. 27v)

RuB 114

Copy, headed S^r Ben: Rudiard.

A folio volume of state tracts and parliamentary speeches and proceedings in 1628/9, in a single professional hand, 91 leaves, in quarter-calf.

c.1630

Cambridge University Library, shelfmarks A through D (MS Dd. 13. 35 ff. 68v-9r)

RuB 115

Copy, headed in the margin S^r Ben: Ruddiard.

A quarto volume of parliamentary proceedings in 1628/9-1630, in several hands, one secretary hand predominating, 135 leaves, in contemporary vellum boards.

c.1630

Inscribed (f. 1r) August 1629 / the 10^th / 1629 and John Heath empt Londino a W. Walbanck. Among the collections of Christopher Hunter (1675-1757), Durham antiquary and physician.

Durham Cathedral Library (Hunter MS 52 f. 48r)

RuB 116

Copy, headed S^r Beniamin Rudyard.

A folio volume of proceedings in Parliament, the Exchequer and Star Chamber, 1628/9-34, in several professional hands, c.315 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary calf.

c.1635

Delivered by Edward Jones Smith to Lady Masserene on 19 June 1824.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 1359 f. [29r])

RuB 117

Copy, headed S^r Beniamin Ridyard.

A folio volume of state tracts and parliamentary proceedings, in varying styles of script, both secretary and roman, possibly in the same hand, 283 leaves (of which ff. 98-283 are blank), in contemporary limp vellum, with ties.

c.1630

Harvard, other MSS (fMS Eng 981 f. 33v)

RuB 118

Copy, in a secretary hand, introduced S^r Beniamin Rudyard sayd.

A folio composite collection of legal and state tracts, in various hands, now bound in two volumes, foliated 1-307 and 308-617 respectively, in modern quarter-calf vellum boards.

Among collections of Sir John Maynard, MP (1604-90), lawyer and politician.

Lincoln's Inn Library (Maynard MS 59 Part II, f. 594r)

RuB 119

Copy.

A folio volume comprising two manuscripts of proceedings and speeches in Parliament, from 27 October to 19 December 1601 (212 leaves) and in 1638/9 (64 leaves), each in a professional secretary hand, in reversed calf.

c.1640

Cambridge University Library, shelfmarks A through D (MS Dd. 2. 39 II, f. 32v)

RuB 119.5

Copy.

Two folio composite volumes of state tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, in 19th-century half-vellum marbled boards gilt.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 355.

University of Kansas (MS E205 Vol. II, in ff. 51-104)

Speech in the House of Commons, ?15-25 April 1640

Speech beginning There is a great dore now opened unto us of doing good.... Variant version in Manning, pp. 148-51.

RuB 120

Copy, here beginning Mr. Speaker by Gods blessing and the Kings favor a greate doore and effectuall is opened unto us....

Edited from this MS in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), pp. 248-51.

A composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, for June-December 1637, 278 leaves.

Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MS Clarendon 18 ff. 147r-9r)

RuB 121

Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 297.

A composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, for June-December 1637, 278 leaves.

Bodleian Library, Clarendon MSS (MS Clarendon 18 ff. 152r-4v)

RuB 122

Copy.

Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 297.

A volume chiefly of speeches and proceedings in Parliament, 1640, 54 leaves, in modern half-vellum marbled boards.

c.1640s

Later owned by Frederic Morrell, Oxford solicitor. Acquired from the executors of Mrs Morrell in 1925.

Bodleian Library, Eng. hist. MSS (MS Eng. hist. c. 199 ff. 50r-1r)

RuB 123 c.1640s

Copy.

Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 297.

A folio volume of parliamentary speeches and proceedings, 45 leaves.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. A. 103 ff. 23r-5r)

RuB 124

Copy.

Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 297.

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous state and parliamentary papers, 357 leaves.

Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, other shelfmarks (MS Rawl. A. 346 ff. 161r-2r)

RuB 125 c.1640s

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Sir Beniamin Ruddiers Speech in the House of Comons 1640.

Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 297.

A folio composite volume of parliamentary speeches, from 1640 to 1675, in various professional hands, 293 leaves, in old calf.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6801 ff. 118r-22r)

RuB 126

Copy, in a probably professional small mixed hand, headed S^ir Beniamin Ruddiers Speech.

Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 297.

A folio composite volume of parliamentary speeches and related documents in 1640-41 and (ff. 32r-76v) a treatise on parliament by Ralph Starkey, in several hands, 129 leaves, in modern half-calf.

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 1200 ff. 17r-18v)

RuB 127

Copy of a report on the speech, headed in the margin S^r. Benia: Rudyard and here beginning Then S^r Ben: Rudyard said S^r. there is a dore now opened to vs of doeing good if wee take the advantage thereof....

Edited from this MS in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), pp. 138-40.

A quarto volume of proceedings in Parliament from 13 April to 5 May 1640, in a cursive predominantly secretary hand, 84 leaves, in quarter-vellum marbled boards.

c.1640s

[?Sotheby's], 5 October 1937, lot 19.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 982 ff. 24r-6r)

RuB 128

Copy, headed S^r Beniamin Rudyerd his Speech in Parliam^t.

A folio volume of parliamentary speeches and proceedings in April 1640, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, ii + 73 unnumbered leaves, in a stiff paper wrapper.

c.1640s

Hertfordshire Record Office (XII B 36 ff. [47v-50r])

RuB 129

Copy, introduced Satterday the 25 of Aprill S^r: Beniamyn Ruddyard spake as followeth.

Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 297.

A quarto volume of parliamentary letters and speeches, mostly (up to p. 94) in probably two professional secretary hands, a later second secretary hand from p. 109 onwards, 295 pages (including numerous blanks), in contemporary limp vellum.

c.1620s-40s

Formerly among the MSS of John Harvey of Ickwell Bury, Hertfordshire, and Finningley Park, Yorkshire. Sotheby's, 19 June 1922. lot 522.

Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 62.

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 1554 pp. 193-6)

RuB 130 c.1640s

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Sir Beniamin Rudyard kn^t:.

Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 297.

A folio composite volume of speeches in Parliament, in various secretary hands, 346 leaves (plus blanks), in red morocco gilt.

Inner Temple Library (Petyt MS 538, Vol. 11 ff. 252r-3v)

RuB 131

Copy.

Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 297.

MS.

National Archives, Kew (SP 16/450 f. 94)

RuB 132

Copy, headed A Speach deliu^red in Parlament by S^r Beniamin Ridie^rs Aprill 1640.

A folio volume of speeches in Parliament in 1640, in several professional hands, 144 pages, in contemporary vellum with ties.

c.1640s

The Queen's College, Oxford (MS 174 pp. 101-6)

RuB 133

Copy, headed Sir Beniamin Rudyards Speech in parliament.

Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 297.

A sewn folio booklet of parliamentary speeches, in one or more professional secretary hands, twelve leaves, in a paper wrapper.

c.1640

In a bundle among the papers of the Mildmay family, including those of Colonel Carew Harvey Mildmay (fl.1625-67), officer of the Jewel House, of Marks, Somerset.

Recorded in HMC, 7th Report (1879), Appendix, p. 596.

Somerset Heritage Centre (DD/MI/18/96 f. [1r-v])

RuB 134

Copy, in the secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe, headed A Speech in Parliament: by S^r Beniamyn Rudyard on the < > of Aprill, 1640.

A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional secretary hands including that of the Feathery Scribe, ii + 281 leaves (including blanks), in calf.

In the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 10464. Among the collections of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, MP (1837-1914), Baconian scholar and book collector.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 250-1 (No. 78).

University of London, Senate House Library (MS 308 ff. 212r-14r)

RuB 135

Copy, untitled.

Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 297.

A folio volume of parliamentary speeches and proceedings, 1640-1, some items in the hand of John Rushworth (c.1612-90), historian and politician.

c.1640s

Formerly Worcester College, MSS 5.20.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 122 ff. 18v-19r)

RuB 136

Copy, headed Sir Beniamyne Ruddiards speech in Parliam^t 1640.

Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 297.

A folio volume of speeches in the House of Commons in 1640, in a single professional hand, 105 leaves, in modern quarter red morocco.

c.1640s

Inscribed (f. 1r) John Griffith and with a stamp lettered Cole Devm.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 5000 through 5999 (Add. MS 6411 ff. 59v-60r)

Speech in the House of Commons, ?23 April 1640

Speech beginning in a reported version S^r: Ben: Rudierd said the house had done wiseley in taking the kings buisnesse into p^rsent consideration....

RuB 137

Copy of a report on the speech.

A quarto volume of proceedings in Parliament from 13 April to 5 May 1640, in a cursive predominantly secretary hand, 84 leaves, in quarter-vellum marbled boards.

c.1640s

[?Sotheby's], 5 October 1937, lot 19.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 982 ff. 54v-5r)

RuB 138

Copy of a reported version (S^r Ben: Ruddierd said the howse had done wisely...).

c.1640

Northamptonshire Record Office (FH 50 p. 55 (second series))

Speech in the House of Commons, ?27 April 1640

Speech beginning in a reported version S^r Ben: Ruddierd said the kinge was in necessitie and that was an ill Councellor....

RuB 139

Copy of a reported version, beginning S^r Ben: Ruddierd said the kinge was in necessitie and that was an ill Councellor....

c.1640

Northamptonshire Record Office (FH 50 p. 65 (second series))

Speech in the House of Commons, ?7 November 1640

Speech (variously dated 4, 7, 9 and 10 November 1640) beginning We are here assembled to do God's business and the King's.... First published in The Speeches of S^r. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 1-10. Manning, pp. 159-65.

RuB 140

Copy, headed S^r Beniamin Riddyers speech in Parliament i Novemb: i640

A quarto MS of speeches in Parliament, 1640, 170 pages, bound with five other MSS of legal and political tracts, xxii + 612 pages in all (pp. 171-271 blank), in various professional hands, in contemporary calf.

c.1640s

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 768 (I) pp. 25-37)

RuB 141

Copy.

A volume chiefly of speeches and proceedings in Parliament, 1640, 54 leaves, in modern half-vellum marbled boards.

c.1640s

Later owned by Frederic Morrell, Oxford solicitor. Acquired from the executors of Mrs Morrell in 1925.

Bodleian Library, Eng. hist. MSS (MS Eng. hist. c. 199 ff. 3r-7r)

RuB 142 c.1640

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed A Speech vsed by S^r Beniamin Rudyard in the Comons howse of Parliam^t 7^o: Nov: 1640.

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 294 leaves, in half-calf.

Mid-17th century

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 65 ff. 179r-v, 190r-2r)

RuB 143

Copy, headed S^r Beniamin Ruddierds speech.

A small quarto diary, in a single secretary hand, 89 leaves, bound with a separately acquired continuation or companion MS (ff. 90r-153r, now Add. MS 28640), in modern half-morocco.

Compiled by the Rev. John Rous (1584-1644), incumbent of Santon Downham, Suffolk, and relating, retrospectively, chiefly to public events and to literary texts in circulation in 1625-42.

c.1625-42

Later owned by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist and antiquary. Turner sale, 7 June 1859, lot 253. The second MS purchased at Sotheby's, 15-25 March 1871 (library of the bookseller Joseph Lilly).

The first MS edited in full in Diary of John Rous, incumbent of Santon Downham, Suffolk, from 1625 to 1642, ed. Mary Anne Everett Green, Camden Society No. 66 (1856).

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 22959 ff. 72r-4r)

RuB 144

Copy, in a mixed hand, headed S^r Beniamin Ruddiers speech in Parliam^t anno 1640, 7 Nov added later in pencil, on 3 pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1640s.

A folio composite volume of state papers and parliamentary speeches 1640-c.1660, in various hands, 91 leaves, in half-calf on marbled boards.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 20000 through 24999 (Add. MS 24863 ff. 8r-9r)

RuB 145

Copy, in the italic hand of Richard Oxinden, headed S^r. Ben. Rud.

A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 124 leaves, mounted on guards, in 19th-century half red morocco.

Collected by members of the Oxinden family, Baronets, of Deane and Barham, Kent, including Henry Oxinden (1609-70) and his brother Richard (b.1613).

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999 (Add. MS 28011 ff. 79r-80v)

RuB 146 c.1640s

Copy, in a mixed hand, headed S^r Beniamin Rudiard 9^ber 7 1640, damp-stained.

An unbound collection of parliamentary speeches and state tracts, in at least three professional hands, 91 largely folio leaves.

Volume CCCCLXXXVIII of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Formerly preserved at Christ Church, Oxford. Purchased March 1995.

The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 60000 through end (Add. MS 78655 ff. 14r-17r)

RuB 147

Copy, headed S^r: Beniamin Ruddier his speech in the Parliam^t: 4 nouem: Ano: Domⁱ: 1640.

A small quarto Book of Divers Relations concerning y^e affairs of Scotland & England about y^e year 1640, in a single neat cursive italic hand, 54 leaves, in 18th-century calf.

c.1640s

Bookplate of Thomas Philip, Earl de Grey, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire (MS 49).

The British Library: Egerton MSS (Egerton MS 3794 ff. 12v-16v)

RuB 148 c.1640

Copy, closely written in a professional secretary hand, headed S^r Benjamin Rudyards speech in Parliam^t 1640, on two probably once conjugate folio leaves.

A large folio composite volume of state papers and parliamentary speeches, in various hands, 291 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Much in the hand of Sir Simonds D'Ewes.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1 through 999 (Harley MS 165 ff. 27r-8v)

RuB 149 c.1640s

Copy, closely written in a cursive mixed hand, headed S^r Benjamin Rudiers Speech.

A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands, 200 leaves, in modern crushed morocco gilt.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1 through 999 (Harley MS 813 f. 9r-v)

RuB 150

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed S^r Beniamin Rudijars Speech.

A folio volume of state letters, tracts, speeches and a parliamentary journal for 1624-25, in possibly several largely secretary hands, one predominating, 77 leaves (plus blanks), in modern quarter crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Notes (f. 55r-v) on the executions of Ralegh, Cuffe and Essex signed W^r Bilmor [i.e. Walter Belmor or Belmore], possibly the principal compiler.

c.1628[-1640]

Inscribed (f. [ii^r]) Timothy Langley.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 1000 through 1999 (Harley MS 1327 ff. 34r-6r)

RuB 151 c.1633

Copy, in a mixed hand, headed A speach deliuered in parliment by S^r Beniamin Ruddard, on two tipped-in folio leaves.

A folio volume, comprising almost entirely a parliamentary journal for 27 October to 19 December 1601, chiefly in two or more professional secretary hands, with a mixed hand on f. 131v and later tipped-in leaves as ff. 132-3, 134 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in mottled leather gilt.

Early 17th century [to c.1633]

Inscribed (f. 1r) Thomas ward, George Withers his booke Anno Dni 1633, and Robert Daye, and (f. 134v) Hugh Parsons / i633.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 2000 through 2999 (Harley MS 2283 ff. 132r-3v)

RuB 152 c.1640s

Copy, in a small hand, headed S^r Beniamin Rydier his speech in the House of Comons Novemb. 7^th. 1640.

A folio composite volume of state papers, parliamentary speeches, and verse, in various hands, with an alphabetical Index (ff. 1r-6v), 144 leaves, in modern mottled leather gilt.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 4000 through 4999 (Harley MS 4931 ff. 92r-3r)

RuB 153 c.1640s

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Sir Beniamin Rudyard his Speech in Parliam^t. the 9^th of November 1640.

A folio composite volume of parliamentary speeches, from 1640 to 1675, in various professional hands, 293 leaves, in old calf.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6801 ff. 161r-7v)

RuB 154 c.1640s

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed S^r Beniamen Rudyeres Speeche the 7^th of Nouember 1640, with a reader's marginal annotation This speech may now be vnseasonably reveiwed at this season - especially y^e later p^t of it.

A large folio composite volume of state tracts, papers and parliamentary speeches, in various hands, 452 leaves, in 19th-century half morocco gilt.

Humphrey Wanley's inscription (f. 1r) on his date of accession 26 August 1724.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6846 ff. 191r-3r)

RuB 155 c.1640s

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a title-page S^r Beniamyn Ridgeard his Speech in y^e Comons house of Parlim^t in Nouember 1640.

A folio composite volume of speeches in Parliament 1639-41, in several professional hands, 356 leaves, in old calf gilt (rebacked).

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 7000 through end (Harley MS 7162 ff. 119r-36v)

RuB 156 c.1640s

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed S^r Benjamin Rudyards speech in Parliam^t. Nov: 7^o 1640, on four quarto leaves.

A folio composite volume of chiefly Elizabethan and Jacobean parliamentary proceedings, in various hands, 128 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco.

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 361 ff. 70r-3r)

RuB 157

Copy of a speech here dated 7 November 1640.

Among papers of the Pell family of Norfolk and Walpole family of Houghton, Norfolk, in the Cholmondeley (Houghton) Papers.

Cambridge University Library, shelfmarks M through end (Ch(H)/4, unnumbered item)

RuB 158

Copy, headed S^r Beniamen Ridyards speech November the x^th i640.

A folio volume of parliamentary speeches in 1640, in three professional hands, 81 leaves, now disbound.

c.1640s

Owned by Dr Samuel Knight (1677/8-1746), clergyman and antiquary. Among the collections of John Patrick (1632-95), religious controversialist.

Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 1 through 4999 (MS Add. 39 ff. 39r-50v)

RuB 159

Copy, headed The speech of S^r Benjamine Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament.

A tall folio volume of tracts and parliamentary papers and speeches relating to events leading up to the Civil War, in two neat italic hands, 177 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum.

Mid-late 17th century

Instructions to the binder M^r Littleton written (p. 1) by W. Baker. Bookplate of Richard Fenton (1747-1821), Welsh topographical writer and antiquary.

Cardiff Central Library (MS 4.29 pp. 163-9)

RuB 160

Copy, in an italic hand with corrections, headed Sir Benjamin Rudiers Speech in y^e lower house of Pariam^t Novem: 1640, on all four pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, in a folio composite volume of 31 parliamentary papers, in various hands, in modern quarter-morocco.

c.1640s

Among papers of the Knatchbull family, Barons Brabourne, of Mersham-le-Hatch, Kent.

Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone (U951 O10/24)

RuB 161

Copy, headed S^r Beniamin Ruddiards speech the 7 November 1640 in the house of Comons.

A folio volume of parliamentary proceedings in 1640-41, in a single professional mixed hand, 218 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum.

c.1640s

Chetham's Library, Manchester (Mun. A.6.17 pp. 27-32)

RuB 162 c.1640s

Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, headed S^r Beniamin Rudieards speech in parliament 1640 Nov: 7.

A quarto composite volume of state papers, tracts and speeches, 183 leaves, in half-vellum on marbled boards.

Compiled, and written, mostly by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 298 ff. 32r-3v)

RuB 163 c.1640s

Copy, in a mixed hand, headed Beniamin Ruddiards speech in Parlament, on three pages of two folio leaves.

A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, 314 leaves (plus blanks), in reversed calf.

Compiled, and partly written, by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MS 317 ff. 265r-6r)

RuB 164

Copy, headed S^r Beniamin Rudiards speech.

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, including parliamentary speeches, in several largely secretary hands, 165 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum, stamped with the monogram TSB, within modern half-calf on marbled boards.

Inscribed (inside the front cover) Thomas Bowdler his booke wrytten w^th his owne bloode 1634 and, in engrossed and decorated lettering, Thomas Bowdler his booke Ao Do: 1635, his name occurring several times elsewhere: the MS probably compiled in part by him.

c.1634-43

Edinburgh University Library, Laing Collection (MS La. III. 532 pp. [141-6])

RuB 165

Copy, headed Sir Beniamin Rideards speech in Parlam^t 9^o Nouembris 1640.

A folio volume of speeches and proceedings in Parliament in 1640-40/1, in a single professional secretary hand, 105 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary limp vellum.

c.1640s

Recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, pp. 306-7.

Lord Egremont, Petworth House (HMC MS 66 ff. 11r-13r)

RuB 166

Copy, headed S^r Beniamin Ruddiars speech in Parliament.

A quarto volume of proceedings in Parliament from 3 November 1640 to 13 April 1641, in a professional secretary hand, 320 pages, in contemporary vellum.

Item 178 in an unidentified sale catalogue.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 983 pp. 15-21)

RuB 167 c.1640

Copy, in a neat largely italic hand, headed S^r Beniamin Rudyer his speech in Parliment 1640, on four pages of two pairs of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet, in a folder of political speeches.

A box of unbound and unnumbered legal and miscellaneous papers.

National Archives, Kew (C 108/63 unnumbered item)

RuB 168 c.1640

Copy, in a mixed hand, headed S^r Beniamin Rudyard his speech in Parliam^t 1640, on five pages of two pairs of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet, in a file of political speeches.

A box of unbound and unnumbered legal and miscellaneous papers.

National Archives, Kew (C 108/63 unnumbered item)

RuB 169

Copy, in a professional hand, headed S^r Beniamin Rudgiars als Ruddiers speech in Parliament in Nouemb^r. Ano Dni. 1640, on all four pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

c.1640s

With a tipped-in letter by Ralph Verney (1879-1959), Secretary to the Speaker of the House of Commons, to the librarian of the House of Commons, 2 November 1945, stating that the MS had been donated by Dumpleton [?Cyril Walter Dumpleton (1897-1966), MP for St Albans] to the Speaker Douglas Clifton Brown in 1945.

Parliamentary Archives (HC/LB/1/16)

RuB 170

Copy, headed S^r Benjamin Rudyers speech Nou y^e 9^th.

A quarto volume of speeches and proceedings in Parliament 1628-40, in a single non-professional hand, 62 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

c.1640s

St John's College, Cambridge (MS S. 37 (James 427) ff. 38r-40r)

RuB 171 c.1640s

Copy, headed S^r Beniamin Rudyards speech in Parliament 7^th Nouemb: 1640.

A folio composite volume of proceedings in Parliament in November 1640, in secretary hands, 134 leaves, in contemporary vellum boards.

Old pressmark E. 2. 10.

Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 200 through 799 (MS 541 ff. 30r-6r)

RuB 172 c.1640s

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed S^r Beniamin Ruddiott his speech 1640.

A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, with a table of contents, 599 leaves.

Inscribed (f. 141r) John: Saunders is the trew owner of this booke, Captaine Christo: Blounte, and Valentine LLawless.

Owned by John Madden, MD (1649-1703/4), physician and manuscript collector. Old pressmark F. 1. 20.

Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 800 through end (MS 806 ff. 524v-6r)

RuB 173

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed S^r Beniamin Ridyards Speech in the Comons howse Novembr: 1640.

A folio volume of proceedings in Parliament in 1640 and other state papers, in several professional hands, 369 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf.

c.1640s

Old pressmark G. 3. 12.

Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 800 through end (MS 867 ff. 177v-87v)

RuB 174

Copy, headed S^r Beniamine Rudder's speech in Parliam^t. Nov: 1640.

A quarto volume comprising speeches in Parliament 1640-40/1, in a single mixed hand, 52 leaves, in modern cloth.

c.1640s

Later owned by Edward Dowden (1843-1913), and with a tipped-in letter to him about the MS by David Masson, 4 May 1875. Dowden sale, London 9 June 1914, to Dobell. Purchased in 1928.

University of Chicago (MS 264 ff. 27r-30r)

RuB 175 c.1640-1

Copy, in the professional secretary hand of the Feathery Scribe, headed An Introducted speeche by Sir Beniamyn Rudiard the 7^th of November: 1640.

A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional secretary hands including that of the Feathery Scribe, ii + 281 leaves (including blanks), in calf.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 250-1 (No. 78).

University of London, Senate House Library (MS 308 ff. 117r-26v)

RuB 176

Copy, on four pages.

A quarto miscellany of political material, principally of parliamentary speeches and letters for 1640-1, neatly written in a rounded hand, 310 pages, in 17th-century calf.

Mid-17th century

Formerly Osborn Collection, Box 45, 19.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 297 item 27)

RuB 177

Copy.

A folio volume of parliamentary speeches for 1640-1, with related materials, in professional hands, 162 leaves (including a few blanks), in contemporary vellum.

c.1641

Title-page inscribed Vni Amcotts and the motto Litera scripta manent.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 229 pp. [50-72])

Speech in the House of Commons, 29 December 1640

Speech beginning The principal part of this business is money.... Manning, pp. 166-7.

RuB 178 c.1640-1

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed S^r Beniamin Rudyardes speech in Parliament 29^o Decembris 1640.

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 294 leaves, in half-calf.

Mid-17th century

Bodleian Library, Tanner Collection (MS Tanner 65 f. 242r-v.)

RuB 179 c.1640s

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Sir Beniamyn Rudgiers second Speech 29^o: Dec: 1640.

A folio composite volume of speeches in Parliament 1639-41, in several professional hands, 356 leaves, in old calf gilt (rebacked).

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 7000 through end (Harley MS 7162 ff. 110r-12r)

RuB 180

Copy, headed S^r Beniamin Ruddiards speech touchinge the grantinge of Subsidies.

A folio volume of parliamentary proceedings in 1640-41, in a single professional mixed hand, 218 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum.

c.1640s

Chetham's Library, Manchester (Mun. A.6.17 p. 203)

RuB 181

Copy, headed Sir Beniamin Rideards speech 29^o Decembr i640.

A folio volume of speeches and proceedings in Parliament in 1640-40/1, in a single professional secretary hand, 105 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary limp vellum.

c.1640s

Recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, pp. 306-7.

Lord Egremont, Petworth House (HMC MS 66 f. [70v])

RuB 182

Copy, headed S^r Beniamin Ruddiars 2^d speech in Parliament the 29 of December 1640.

A quarto volume of proceedings in Parliament from 3 November 1640 to 13 April 1641, in a professional secretary hand, 320 pages, in contemporary vellum.

Item 178 in an unidentified sale catalogue.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 983 pp. 115-16)

RuB 183

Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, headed S^r Beniamin Rudyard his Speech in the Comons howse of Parliament 29^o Decembris 1640.

A folio volume of proceedings in Parliament in 1640 and other state papers, in several professional hands, 369 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf.

c.1640s

Old pressmark G. 3. 12.

Trinity College, Dublin, numbers 800 through end (MS 867 ff. 54r-5v)

RuB 184

Copy, headed S^r Beniamine Ruddierd's speech in Parliam^t. 29^o. decemb: 1640.

A quarto volume comprising speeches in Parliament 1640-40/1, in a single mixed hand, 52 leaves, in modern cloth.

c.1640s

Later owned by Edward Dowden (1843-1913), and with a tipped-in letter to him about the MS by David Masson, 4 May 1875. Dowden sale, London 9 June 1914, to Dobell. Purchased in 1928.

University of Chicago (MS 264 f. 36r)

RuB 185

Copy, headed Sir Benjamin Rudyard his second speech in Parliament 29^th December 1640.

A folio volume of parliamentary speeches and proceedings, 1640-1, many items in the hand of John Rushworth (c.1612-90), historian and politician, 158 leaves.

c.1640s

Formerly Worcester College, MSS 5.16.

Worcester College, Oxford (MS 111 f. 71r-2v)

RuB 186

Copy.

Formerly MD59/E/26.

Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Leeds (MD59/5/6/58)

Speech in the House of Commons, 20 January 1640/1

Speech beginning God hath blessed the Queenes Ma^tie with a blessed and hopefull progenie alreadie.... Manning, p. 213.

RuB 187 c.1640s

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed S^r Beniamin Ridyard his Speech in the howse of Comons Concerning the Bill for the Queenes Joynture, on two once conjugate folio leaves.

A folio composite volume of speeches in Parliament 1639-41, in several professional hands, 356 leaves, in old calf gilt (rebacked).

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 7000 through end (Harley MS 7162 ff. 108r-9v)

RuB 188

Copy, headed S^r Beniamine Ruddiars speech concerning the Queenes Joynture January the 20^th: 1640.

A quarto volume of proceedings in Parliament from 3 November 1640 to 13 April 1641, in a professional secretary hand, 320 pages, in contemporary vellum.

Item 178 in an unidentified sale catalogue.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 983 pp. 195-6)

Speech in the House of Commons, 21-22 January 1640/1

Speech beginning It well becometh vs thankefully to acknowledge the prudent & painfull endeuours of my Lords the Peers Comissioners.... First published in The Speeches of S^r. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 11-18 [i.e. 14]. Manning, pp. 169-72.

RuB 189 c.1640s

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed S^r Benjamine Rudiarde speech in the Parliament 21^th of Januarie 1640.

A folio composite volume of speeches in Parliament 1639-41, in several professional hands, 356 leaves, in old calf gilt (rebacked).

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 7000 through end (Harley MS 7162 ff. 113r-18r)

RuB 190

Copy, headed S^r Beniamin Ruddiards second speech January 21 vppon the giueinge the 300 thousand pounds.

A folio volume of parliamentary proceedings in 1640-41, in a single professional mixed hand, 218 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum.

c.1640s

Chetham's Library, Manchester (Mun. A.6.17 pp. 152-4)

RuB 191

Copy, headed S^r Beniamin Ruddiars 3^d speech in parliament January the 22^th Concerning the Scottish affayres 1640.

A quarto volume of proceedings in Parliament from 3 November 1640 to 13 April 1641, in a professional secretary hand, 320 pages, in contemporary vellum.

Item 178 in an unidentified sale catalogue.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 983 pp. 163-7)

RuB 192 c.1641

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed S^r Beniamin Rudiardes speech in the howse of Commons the 2i Jan. 1640.

A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional secretary hands including that of the Feathery Scribe, ii + 281 leaves (including blanks), in calf.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 250-1 (No. 78).

University of London, Senate House Library (MS 308 ff. 208r-11r)

RuB 193

Copy, here dated 3 February 1640/1.

Formerly MD59/E/27.

Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Leeds (MD59/5/6/64)

Speech in the House of Commons, 7-9 February 1640/1

Speech beginning I doe verily beleeue that there are manie of the Clergie in one Church who doe thinke.... First published in The Speeches of S^r. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 15-12 [i.e. 20]. Manning, pp. 185-7.

RuB 194

Copy, headed A Speech of S^r Beniamin Rudyer in the H. of Comons concerning Bishops. ffeb. 9. 1640.

A folio composite volume of state papers, parliamentary speeches, and verse, in various hands, with an alphabetical Index (ff. 1r-6v), 144 leaves, in modern mottled leather gilt.

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 4000 through 4999 (Harley MS 4931 f. 103r-v)

RuB 195 c.1640s

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed S^r: Benjamine Rydiars speech concerning Bishopps.

A folio composite volume of parliamentary papers, in various professional hands, 326 leaves, in modern crushed morocco.

The British Library: Stowe MSS (Stowe MS 354 ff. 109r-10r)

RuB 196

Copy, headed S^r Beniamine Ruddiars speech concerning Bisho ffebruary the 7^th 1640.

A quarto volume of proceedings in Parliament from 3 November 1640 to 13 April 1641, in a professional secretary hand, 320 pages, in contemporary vellum.

Item 178 in an unidentified sale catalogue.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 983 pp. 196-9)

RuB 197

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed S^r Beniamin Rudyards Speache the 9^th of ffebruary A^o 1640, on twelve folio pages, unbound.

c.1641

Northamptonshire Record Office (FH 3699)

Speech in the House of Commons, April 1641

RuB 197.5

Copy of a summary of an interjection, six lines, headed S^r Beiamin Rud:, beginning ...[he] said that we should make so many examples..., dated April 1641.

An octavo volume of proceedings in Parliament, in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, 95 leaves, in contemporary vellum with traces of ties.

Compiled entirely by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire.

c.1640s

Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the Bacon-Tottel Commonplace Books, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).

University College London (MS Ogden 7/51 f. 74r rev.)

Speech in the House of Commons, ?June 1641

Speech beginning We are now upon a very great business, so great indeed as it requires our soundest and saddest consideration.... Manning, pp. 188-92.

RuB 198 c.1641

Copy, in a professional hand, untitled, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves.

A large folio composite volume of state papers, tracts and speeches, in various professional hands, 312 leaves.

In various professional hands, including those of Ralph Starkey (c.1568-1628), antiquary, and the Feathery Scribe.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 245 (No. 61).

The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999 (Harley MS 6842 ff. 187r-8r)

RuB 199

Copy, headed S^r Beniamin Rudyerds Speach concerning Bisho^ps Deanes & Chapters, att a Comittee of the whole House, undated, on three pages.

A quarto miscellany of political material, principally of parliamentary speeches and letters for 1640-1, neatly written in a rounded hand, 310 pages, in 17th-century calf.

Mid-17th century

Formerly Osborn Collection, Box 45, 19.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 297 item 60)

Speech in the House of Commons, July 1641

Speech beginning This great affair of the Palatinate concerns this kingdom in nature, in honour, in reason of state, in religion.... Manning, pp. 208-10.

RuB 200

Copy, headed S^r Ben: Rudyards first speech concerning the Palatinate, undated, on one page.

A quarto miscellany of political material, principally of parliamentary speeches and letters for 1640-1, neatly written in a rounded hand, 310 pages, in 17th-century calf.

Mid-17th century

Formerly Osborn Collection, Box 45, 19.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 297 item 96)

Speech in the House of Commons, ?7 July 1641

Speech beginning If we may do the Prince Elector good, by our good word, I hope we shall not stick to afford it him.... Manning, pp. 210-11.

RuB 201

Copy, headed S^r Ben: Rudyards second Speech of the Palatinate at a Comittee of the whole house, undated, on one page.

A quarto miscellany of political material, principally of parliamentary speeches and letters for 1640-1, neatly written in a rounded hand, 310 pages, in 17th-century calf.

Mid-17th century

Formerly Osborn Collection, Box 45, 19.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end (Osborn MS b 297 item 97)

RuB 202 c.1641

Copy of most of the speech, imperfect, lacking the beginning, docketed (f. 14v) part of an ingenious speech in parliam^t ag^t monopolies &c about ano 164i.

A folio composite volume of state papers, in English and Latin, in various hands and paper sizes, 49 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

The British Library: Sloane Collection (Sloane MS 972 ff. 13r-14v)

Speech in the House of Commons, 17 February 1642/3

Speech beginning I do verily believe that the vote we have already passed for the disbanding the Army....

RuB 203

Copy, in a professional hand, headed 17: Febr: 1642 S^r Beniamin Rudyerd his Speech for a speedy Treaty of Peace w^th his Ma^tie.

A folio composite volume of state letters, speeches and other papers, in various hands and paper sizes, x + 315 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

Collected and partly written by Elias Ashmole (1617-92).

Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection (MS Ashmole 830 f. 275r-v)

Miscellaneous Extracts of Unspecified Speeches

Speech(es)

RuB 204

Brief notes on an undated speech of ?1623-4, headed Heads of S^r Ben: Rudyards speach, on one page of a tipped-in pair of conjugate quarto leaves, the verso bearing The heads of the Dukes [Buckingham's] Relation which is dated on an endorsement (f. [12v]) 24^to ffeb: 1623[/4].

A folio composite volume of speeches in Parliament 1623-8, in professional hands, iii + 116 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

Booklabel with an AF monogram.

Harvard, other MSS (MS Eng 1266.1 f. [11v])

RuB 205

Copy or extracts of a speech, here beginning Who would have thought there could have been.

A small quarto book of Dayly Obseruations both Diuine & Morall / The First part by Thomas Grocer Florilegius. 1657, on 215 pages (paginated irregularly, plus five preliminary leaves).

A commonplace book of quotations from largely devotional or philosophical texts under subject headings, neatly written in a single hand, with a title-page and table of contents.

1657

Inscriptions in the MS including Crescentius Matherus 1680, Crescentii Matheri Liber 1682, Nathanaelis Matheri Liber 1683, By Mr Oakes, Elijah Warings Book 1734, Jne Daniell 1832, and Thos Alexander -- 1847.

The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M (HM 93 p. 185)

RuB 206

Copy of one or more speeches in 1640.

A volume of parliamentary speeches and proceedings in 1640.

National Library of Wales (Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/3/13 [unspecified page numbers])

RuB 207

Extracts from one or more speeches.

An octavo parliamentary notebook, neatly arranged under commonplace-book headings, c.40 pages, in calf gilt.

c.1620s-40s

From the library of Bertram Ashburnham (1797-1878), fourth Earl of Ashburnham, book collector. Sotheby's, 11 December 1997, lot 81.

Parliamentary Archives (HL/PO/RO/1/14 [unspecified page numbers])

RuB 208

Copies of, or extracts from, three speeches: (i) headed Ben: Ruddiard, eleven lines beginning The dangers which threaten from abroade are obvious to euery mans understanding...; (ii) a long speech headed Sir Beniamin Rudiard first spake in the great Business concerning the Treaty beginning It is an old saying in State that a King of many daughters...; (iii) eighteen lines headed Sir Benjamin Ruddiard spake to the Bill of Plurality and Non Residency beginning My Motion is that some course may be taken for the brideling of Covetous Presumptious patrons....

An octavo notebook of proceedings in the House of Commons between c.1607 and 1640, in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, 185 leaves (including numerous blanks), in one remaining contemporary vellum cover.

Compiled by Sir William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes House, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Including (f. 184v rev.) Notes taken from a Journall (lent me by M^r [Robert] Cotton of the Lower House of Parlament in the yeare yeare [sic] 1620 and (f. 162v rev.) notes from a journal of 1626 lent by M^r Cotton copied out of Elsynges one book.

c.1620-40

From the collection of Percy Millican. Purchased 1970.

Parliamentary Archives (WDR/1 ff. 6r, 167v-164v rev., 169v rev.)