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  Commonplace book. English history: manuscript

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  Copies of letters, treatises, and accounts of legal proceedings, chiefly in England, in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, including accounts of the rebellion, trial, and execution of the Earl of Essex, a copy of the "Liber Intrationem [in Camera Stellata tempore Regis Henr. Septimi]", other proceedings in Star Chamber, Sir Henry Wotton on George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, etc.

  mssHM 41952

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  Commonplace book. Parliament: manuscript

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  A Booke Conteyning the whole Passages of the last Parliament ended the 10th daie of March 1628 [with] other materiall passages that happened from the yeare 1623 untill the end of the Parliament in the Yeare 1628[/29].

  mssHM 213

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  Commonplace book. Parliament: manuscript

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  Copies of speeches in Parliament from 1623 to 1628, preceded by a roll of knights created in 1603 to 1624.

  mssHM 30663

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  Commonplace book. English history: manuscript

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  Includes copies of "Leicester's Commonwealth," "Burghley's Commonwealth," Sir Francis Bacon's "Certain Observations Made Upon a Libel," letters by Sir Walter Ralegh, etc.

  mssHM 267

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  Commonplace book. Poetical and legal: manuscript

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  Contains poems by Ben Jonson, John Done, Richard Corbett, and others with (in a different hand) a treatise on Justices of the Peace and criminal law arranged in alphabetical order by topic.

  mssHM 46323

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  Journal and commonplace book of Sir William Drake

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  Sir William Drake's personal and political diary and commonplace book that covers events from Nov. 30, 1631 to the outbreak of the Civil War. Included are extensive notes on books, the law courts in London, and the Long Parliament

  mssHM 55603