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Document relating to impeachment proceedings against Sir Giles Mompesson, [ca. 1621?].

Title: Document relating to impeachment proceedings against Sir Giles Mompesson, [ca. 1621?].

Contemporary document, written in manuscript in an unidentified hand, relating to impeachment proceedings in the House of Commons against Sir Giles Mompesson, in connection with his grant for concealments.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; 32 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702151884 View

Mompesson, Giles, Sir, 1584-1651?. Autograph letter signed from Sir Giles Mompesson to Edward Hyde [manuscript], 1642 April.

Title: Autograph letter signed from Sir Giles Mompesson to Edward Hyde [manuscript], 1642 April.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/318647262 View

England and Wales. Parliament (1621-1622). House of Lords. [Journal of the House of Lords], [1621 Feb 6 - 1622 Feb 8].

Title: [Journal of the House of Lords], [1621 Feb 6 - 1622 Feb 8].

Manuscript, in a single secretary hand, of a chronological journal of proceedings in the House of Lords, including bills, resolutions, committee appointments, and orders of the house. The volume includes the trial and judgment against Giles Mompesson for extortion; acts concerning tobacco and against the false dyeing of silks; and the trial and conviction of Edward Lloyd for speaking libelous words of the king's daughter, Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, and her husband, Frederick I, and creating a comic stage play mocking their exile from Bohemia. The manuscript also records the debate in the House of Lords over whether Lloyd's punishment of being whipped and having his ears nailed to the pillory was fitting for a gentleman.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (457 p.) ; 30 x 18 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702177552 View

Document relating to impeachment proceedings against Sir Giles Mompesson, [ca. 1621?].

Title: Document relating to impeachment proceedings against Sir Giles Mompesson, [ca. 1621?].

Contemporary document, written in manuscript in an unidentified hand, relating to impeachment proceedings in the House of Commons against Sir Giles Mompesson, in connection with his grant for concealments.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; 32 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77925790 View

England and Wales. Parliament (1621-1622). House of Lords. Journall of the passages of the upper howse in the Parliament holden at Westminster...1620, [early 17th century].

Title: Journall of the passages of the upper howse in the Parliament holden at Westminster...1620, [early 17th century].

Manuscript, in a single hand, of a journal documenting the activities of the House of Lords between 30 January 1620/1 to February 1621/2. The manuscript documents lists of names on Parliamentary committees; acts sent up by the House of Commons, including an act for the better repressing of drunkenness and an act for the free trade and traffic of Welsh cottons throughout England and Wales; and records of proceedings against individuals, such as Richard Camell, a clerk, for writs against several Lords, Sir Francis Mitchell for extortion, and Sir Giles Mompesson for monopoly and graft. The manuscript also includes a list of corruptions charged against the Lord Chancellor, Sir Francis Bacon, and his impeachment. Laid in at the beginning of the manuscript is a copy of the King's first speech in Parliament in 1621.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (ca. 163 p.) ; 33 x 22 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702177410 View

England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. Papers relating to the charge against Sir Giles Mompesson in the House of Commons [manuscript], 1621.

Title: Papers relating to the charge against Sir Giles Mompesson in the House of Commons [manuscript], 1621.

Includes copies of the parliamentary search warrant, and of the judgment against him in the House of Lords.

ArchivalResource: 4 items (4 papers)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/299093205 View