- 15
Parliamentary and legal treatises
Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description
- Four manuscript volumes:
- ink on paper
1) Treatise on Parliamentary and electoral procedure, untitled, with a preface, text in twenty chapters, in a mixed hand with residual secretary features, the final chapter in a different italic hand and added at the beginning of the volume, 112 pages, octavo, late seventeenth century (seemingly temp. William III), speckled calf decorated in blind
2) Treatise on Pardons as an aspect of the Royal Prerogative, untitled, in twenty-four chapters, in a single scribal hand, red ruled margins, text on rectos only, 109 pages, plus two pages of notes in a different hand on facing versos, quarto, late seventeenth century (seemingly temp. Charles II), vellum gilt, “pardon of impeachments” written on spine
3) Composite manuscript containing legal and Parliamentary treatises: ‘A Treatise of Acts of Resumption | A Manuscript written Anno 1657’, dealing with the “just interest of the Kings of England in the free disposing power of their Manners Landes &c. And the validity of the grants made thereof to any of their Subjects”, later scribal cope in a rapid hand, 44 pages, folio, copied c.1700-1710 [watermark similar to Heawood 458-461], signed at the end by Simon Harcourt; ‘The Generall Excise Considr’d’, 14 pages, text on rectos only, folio, probably c.1692; ‘The Proceedings of the Convocation of Ireland in relation to a Letter printed in a Pamphlet intituled Partiality detected faithfully Represented’, 13 pages, folio, c.1709; also with notes on treatises by Sir John Forstescue (6 pages) and on ‘The Siege of Tunis’, in a different hand (2 pages) loosely inserted at the back of the volume; calf backed boards, some loss at spine
4) 'Reports of several special Cases Argued & adjudged in the Courts of King’s Bench, Common Pleas in the 19th [to] 26thyears of the Raigne of Our late Dread Soveraigne Charles II [i.e. 1667-1674]', arranged chronologically by legal term, with an alphabetical index, in a single mixed scribal hand, 362 numbered pages, plus blanks, folio, c.1700, calf, armorial gilt stamp centrepiece with the arms of the Rawlins family
2) Treatise on Pardons as an aspect of the Royal Prerogative, untitled, in twenty-four chapters, in a single scribal hand, red ruled margins, text on rectos only, 109 pages, plus two pages of notes in a different hand on facing versos, quarto, late seventeenth century (seemingly temp. Charles II), vellum gilt, “pardon of impeachments” written on spine
3) Composite manuscript containing legal and Parliamentary treatises: ‘A Treatise of Acts of Resumption | A Manuscript written Anno 1657’, dealing with the “just interest of the Kings of England in the free disposing power of their Manners Landes &c. And the validity of the grants made thereof to any of their Subjects”, later scribal cope in a rapid hand, 44 pages, folio, copied c.1700-1710 [watermark similar to Heawood 458-461], signed at the end by Simon Harcourt; ‘The Generall Excise Considr’d’, 14 pages, text on rectos only, folio, probably c.1692; ‘The Proceedings of the Convocation of Ireland in relation to a Letter printed in a Pamphlet intituled Partiality detected faithfully Represented’, 13 pages, folio, c.1709; also with notes on treatises by Sir John Forstescue (6 pages) and on ‘The Siege of Tunis’, in a different hand (2 pages) loosely inserted at the back of the volume; calf backed boards, some loss at spine
4) 'Reports of several special Cases Argued & adjudged in the Courts of King’s Bench, Common Pleas in the 19th [to] 26thyears of the Raigne of Our late Dread Soveraigne Charles II [i.e. 1667-1674]', arranged chronologically by legal term, with an alphabetical index, in a single mixed scribal hand, 362 numbered pages, plus blanks, folio, c.1700, calf, armorial gilt stamp centrepiece with the arms of the Rawlins family
Provenance
(1) only, William Smith, ownership inscription; (4) only, Robert Rawlins, ownership inscription and armorial stamp: (1-3) Harcourt family armorial bookplate