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Powell, Thomas, 1572?-1635?. Direction for search of records remaining in the Chancery, the Tower, the Exchequer, with the limbs thereof, the Kings Bench, the Common Pleas and other places [manuscript], ca. 1622.

Title: Direction for search of records remaining in the Chancery, the Tower, the Exchequer, with the limbs thereof, the Kings Bench, the Common Pleas and other places [manuscript], ca. 1622.

ArchivalResource: 32 leaves ; 20 x 16 cm.

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England and Wales. Parliament. Transactions of Parliament : manuscript, [16--]

Title: Transactions of Parliament : manuscript, [16--]

Transactions for the year 1627, reports of habeas corpus proceedings, notes on preparations for and laws of war, the Lord Keeper Thomas Coventry's speech to the Serjeants at Law in 1636, and miscellaneous legal notes all collected by or for Turnor.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (167 leaves) ; 32 cm.

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Marlborough, James Ley, Earl of, 1550-1629. General terms agreed upon by the commissioners for levying a forced loan for the French War : [n.p., London, d.f., between 1626 May and 1628 Aug., probably early 1628s].

Title: General terms agreed upon by the commissioners for levying a forced loan for the French War : [n.p., London, d.f., between 1626 May and 1628 Aug., probably early 1628s].

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (fol.)

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England and Wales. Privy Council. Copy of order of the Privy Council to the Bishop of Hereford to arrest 2 Romish priests, George Berington and Humphrey? Hanmer, August 9, 1626 [manuscript], 17th century?

Title: Copy of order of the Privy Council to the Bishop of Hereford to arrest 2 Romish priests, George Berington and Humphrey? Hanmer, August 9, 1626 [manuscript], 17th century?

Signed by Thomas Conventry, E. Dorset, Kelly, Grandizon, T. Edmondes, John Suckling, R. Naunton, J. Coke, Richard Weston, Julius Caesar, and Humphrey May.

ArchivalResource: 2 leaves.

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Coventry, Thomas Coventry, Baron, 1578-1640. Queen's Bench reports, early 17th-century.

Title: Queen's Bench reports, early 17th-century.

Contains reports in the Queen's Bench, Mich. 42 & 43 to Pas. 43, and Mich. 44 & 45 Eliz. I (1600-1601, 1602). These may be tentatively attributed to Coventry of the Inner Temple, whose name is perhaps to be made out in the margin of fo. 1. The first case in this portion is Agard v. Kinge.

ArchivalResource: [4], 269 leaves ; 30 cm.

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Elsynge, Henry, 1577-1635 or 6. Modus tenendi parliamentum apud Anglos [manuscript], 1630s?

Title: Modus tenendi parliamentum apud Anglos [manuscript], 1630s?

The text consists of the first eight chapters, covering such topica as 'Of Summons,' Of Appearance,' 'Of Parliament dayes,' 'Of the Speaker' and 'Of tryors and Receivors of Petitions.' Newspaper clippings concerning late 19th and early 20th century political matters (correspondence from W.E. Gladstone, Mr. Balfour and Mr. Chamberlain) laid in at front of volume.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (149 leaves) ; 29 x 19 cm.

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England and Wales. Parliament. Copies of several speeches and passages in the Parliament held at Westminster, February 6, 1625/6-June 9, 1626 [manuscript], compiled ca. 1630.

Title: Copies of several speeches and passages in the Parliament held at Westminster, February 6, 1625/6-June 9, 1626 [manuscript], compiled ca. 1630.

Also at end, the lord keeper Sir Thomas Coventry's speech in the Star Chamber, June 7, 1626; the king's letter in approbation of the Duke of Buckingham's election as chancellor of Cambridge, June 6, 1626; and a letter from Gabriel Browne to a priest in Spain, May 20, 1626.

ArchivalResource: [3], 121, [11] leaves.

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Collection of political treatises, ca. 1640.

Title: Collection of political treatises, ca. 1640.

Thirty-two 15th and 16th-century political treatises by Nathaniel Bacon, Sir WalterRaleigh, and others.

ArchivalResource: 2 v. (.5 linear ft.)

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Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. The counsells warrant for searching for gold and siluer thread [microform].

Title: The counsells warrant for searching for gold and siluer thread [microform]. [after 1618]

ArchivalResource: 2 sheets ([4] p.)

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Collection of parliamentary speeches, 1623-1628.

Title: Collection of parliamentary speeches, 1623-1628.

Parliamentary speeches by James I and Charles I of England, as well as bythe Speaker of the House of Commons concerning state matters, including the impeachment ofthe Duke of Buckingham.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (.13 linear ft.)

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Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. Chancery miscellanea, 1627-1635.

Title: Chancery miscellanea, 1627-1635.

Contains miscellaneous pieces concerning the Chancery, compiled ca. 1627-1635, including (1) Sir Francis Bacon's inaugural speech of 1617; (2) his ordinances; (3) orders of Sir William Cordell, Lord Ellesmere and Sir Thomas Coventry; (4) Copy of the patent incorporating the six clerks; (5) Lord Keeper William's inaugural speech, 1621.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (200 p.) ; 19 cm.

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Lee, Leonard. [Treatise on employment], [17th century].

Title: [Treatise on employment], [17th century].

Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of a tract on the "want of employment" in England. The essay is divided into five parts: "Who the poore are," "Wherein the evil doth consist," "The cause," "The cure and remidy," and "How this cure is to be applyed." Prefaced by a dedication to the Lord Keeper of the Grand Seal, Thomas Coventry.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (16 p.) ; 20 x 15 cm.

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Coventry, Thomas, Baron of Coventry, 1578-1640. Copy of a speech : [London], 1636 Feb. 14.

Title: Copy of a speech : [London], 1636 Feb. 14.

Being a speech given in the Star Chamber.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.) ; (fol.)

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[Collection of orders and fees in various courts of law], [mid 17th century].

Title: [Collection of orders and fees in various courts of law], [mid 17th century].

ArchivalResource: 1 gaylord ; 31 x 20 cm.

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Turnour, Arthur, d. 1651. Reports of cases, 1619-1631.

Title: Reports of cases, 1619-1631.

"Les reportes de certein arguments et resolutions des judges in cases devaunt eux in les courts in Westminster en le temps le Roy Jacques commenseant de le 17th an de son reigne." Turnour describes this volume as "written all with mine owne hand of divers yeres of King James and King Charles." Contains select cases in King's Bench, Easter Term, 17 James I to Michaelmas Term, 7 Charles I, with several Star Chamber, Exchequer, and Chancery cases. Some of the reports are abridged in Palmer's reports. There is a full account of a session of the Court of the Verge in 1620. On the fly is a note by Turnour of the custody of the Great Seal 1621-1639; and a laudatory obituary of Thomas Baron Coventry (1578-1640). [see HLS MS 104]

ArchivalResource: 435 leaves ; 23 cm.

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Suckling, John, Sir, 1609-1642. Autograph signature to a document (The list of a Weeks pay for 100 ffoote), ca. 1624-1629.

Title: Autograph signature to a document (The list of a Weeks pay for 100 ffoote), ca. 1624-1629.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (fol.)

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James I, King of England, 1566-1625. Document : to the Auditor of the County of Wiltshire, 1622 Apr. 20.

Title: Document : to the Auditor of the County of Wiltshire, 1622 Apr. 20.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Castlehaven, Mervyn Touchet, Earl of, 1592?-1631. Trial of Lord Audley, 1631.

Title: Trial of Lord Audley, 1631.

Contains 'the arraignment of Mervyn Lord Audley, earle of Castlehaven, at Westminster Hall', and includes the opinion of Thomas Lord Coventry.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (8 leaves) ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78509799 View