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 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...