Legal and political miscellany [manuscript], ca. 1675.

Legal and political miscellany [manuscript], ca. 1675.

Folger card catalog title: Commonplace book, ca. 1675.

1 v. (78 leaves)

Contains Sir Henry Yelverton's speeches before the lords in Parliament, [April 30, 1621]; Bacon's submission, April 22, 1621; Lord Chancellor Ellesmere's speech on the occasion of making Sir Henry Montague chief justice, November 18, 1616; Sir John Culpepper's speech in Parliament, November, [9], 1640; a charge delivered to a grand jury at a Lent Sessions at Durham, [ca. 1670]; "Mon speech al Roy sur son Avenew al City d'Oxon," September 23, 1663 -- possibly that of the recorder Richard Crooke; official forms of letters to be used when removing a person to his last place of habitation and when acting against those preaching and meeting at a conventicle, 1668-1670.

Leaves 24-78 are blank.

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For versions of Yelverton's speeches, see Parliamentary History of England, 1751, vol. V, p. 436.
For September 23, 1663 speech see Wood's Life and Times, Oxford Historical Society, vol. 19, p. 493.

Formerly Folger MS Add 300.

Great Britain -- England -- Durham.
Great Britain -- England -- Oxford.

V.a.378

MS Add 300