Scope and Contents (1) Arguments at two conferences of committees of both houses of parliament concerning the liberty of the person of every freeman, by Sir Dudley Digges, Edward Littleton and John Selden, beginning ‘My lords: I shall I hope auspiciously begynne this conference this day with an observacon out of holy story. In the dayes of good kinge Josiah ...’; see MS Dd.13.35 no. 1; (2) ‘The earle of Oxons case for the his [recte high?] chamberlaineship of England’; (3) an incomplete and untitled treatise...

Scope and Contents (1) Edward Littleton and John Selden’s arguments for the liberty of the person of every free man delivered at a conference with the Lords, with an introduction by Sir Dudley Digges, the objections of Mr Attorney and the replies; a blank space is left for ‘Mr Littleton’s presidents’; see MS Dd.13.34 no. 1; (2) ‘That the kings of England have bine pleased usuallie to consulte with their peares in the great counsells and commons in parliament of marriage peace and warre’, attributed to Sir...

Scope and Contents 1. ff. 1–8. The Autumn Reading (10 Henry VII.) Of Thomas Frowyk, at the Inner Temple, on the Statute Prerogativa Regis. Imperfect at the beginning and end. (Law-French.) 2. ff. 9–28. A perfect copy of the same reading. 3. ff. 33–85. Moot Cases. (Law-French.) On f. 28 are the heads of the Lent Reading of John Hutchins, at the Middle Temple, 10 Charles I., upon the Statute 32 Henry VIII. c. 28. At the foot of the fly-leaf is written the name of 'R. Powell, Inter. Temple.' It has...

Scope and Contents 1. ff. 1–52. 'The Arguemente of Sir Edward Littleton, Knight, of the Inner Temple, made in the Exchequer Chamber, pro Rege.' [Against Hampden in the case of Ship-money.] Imperfect at the end. 2. ff. 56–73. Rough notes for an Argument against the defendant in the case of Ship-money. They are probably Sir Edw. Littleton's. 3. ff. 74–93. 'Opusculum de Origine Monasterii de Fontibus.' 4. ff. 96–121. Rough draught of Sir Edward Littleton's Argument in the Court of King's Bench,...

Scope and Contents Written in various hands: (1) ‘Collections out of the records, declaring the manner howe the kinges of England have from time to time supplied theire necessities with moneyes, without the helpe of parliamentes’, dated ‘Anno 9o Jacobi regis’, beginning ‘The kinges of England have repaired and supported their estates ...’; (2) a letter ‘to my noble friends in the lower howse of parliament’, by a former member of the house, and relating to grievances; (3) remonstrance of the house of commons,...

Scope and Contents Reports of cases decided in the King’s Bench from Hilary Term, 13 James I, to Hilary Term, 7 Charles I, with an index of cases. Folios 206-243 contain arguments ‘touching the liberty of the subjects’: (1) ‘Sr Dudley Digges’ introduction to the argument of the libertye of the subject at a conference before the lords in parliament, 4 Caroli, Aprill 1, 1628’; (2) ‘The argument of Mr Creswell, 1628’; (3) ‘Selden’s argument, 1 Apr. 4 Car., in parliament, in the painted chamber’; (4) ‘Mr...

Scope and Contents Interspersed amongst the notes are the following: 1. ff. 29, 30. 'The Subject of Mr Bagshott's Argument; Reader of the Middle Temple in Lent, 1639.' Whether an Act of Parliament might pass, the Spiritual Lords dissassenting, and whether a spiritual person could exercise civil jurisdiction. 2. ff. 45–49. 'A Copie of an Exemplification under the great seale of England, C Hen. IV., reciting a chartre of Hen. II. sent into Ireland, conteyninge the forme of holding Parliaments.'...

Scope and Contents Sylloge Epistolarum, etc. Collected by Abednego Sellers, as is attested in a note signed G. Ashby, St John's, written in the fly-leaf. Sellers was author of a history of Palmyra. His own Index to the volume, on p. 4, is as follows: [1] Litteræ ἀμοιβαίαι inter Rev. [Guil. Lloyd], Episc. Asapheus, et DD. Pagium Norisium, et Dodwellum vv. cll. p. 1; [2] Epist God. Wendelini de ætate Manilii p. 123; [3] Epist God. Wendelini de Horoscopo Augusti Æs. p. 151; [4] Vita Bilibaldi...