[Parliamentary tracts MS]
A folio volume of antiquarian tracts on Parliament, in two or more cursive predominantly secretary hands, 71 pages, disbound.
Early 17th century.Inscribed names of frizell Griffin
, Arnold Thomas of lane baglan
, and Robert Toughe
. Sotheby's, 28 October 1980, lot 780.
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CmW 88.4 [no page numbers]
Copy.
A tract beginning
That there were such like assemblies as parliaments now are, before the Romans arrival here...
. First published in Sir John Doddridge et al., The Several Opinions of Sundry Learned Antiquaries...touching...the High Court of Parliament in England (London, 1658). Hearne (1771), I, 303-6.William Camden, Of the Antiquity of Parliaments in England