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Parliamentary Tracts THREE MANUSCRIPT VOLUMES OF TRACTS: i) Henry Elsynge, Modus tenendi Parliamentum apud Anglos, Book One, treatise in English on Parliamentary procedure, in a single scribal secretary hand, red ruled margins and catchwords, c.258 pages, folio, c.1630s, blind tooled calf, damp staining, covers detached ii) A collection of tracts relating to Parliament including "A Breviatt for the Kinges learned Councell Collected by the Lord Ellesmere Mense Septembris 1615", legal opinions and speeches by Francis Bacon the Earl of Salisbury and others; Sir John Davies "An Argumente upon the Question of Imposicions", 75 pages; two versions of "the petition to his Majestie concerning Religion prepared for the Conmons house of Parliament 29 Junij 1625" and related Parliamentary proceedings including speeches by the Duke of Buckingham and others, 15 pages, in part corrected against another text; Parliamentary ordinances regarding sequestration of the estates of delinquents, 1643-44; "The Catholique Ballad, or an invitation to Popery", late 17th century; in various hands and on various paper stocks, in total 146 pages, folio, half calf, covers detached iii) Notes Taken in the Common Please by Mr Gouldesborough, 132 pages, early 17th century; legal notes and memoranda by Prothonotary Farmer, 141 pages, plus blanks, early 17th century; Arguments upon the Habeas Corpus, incomplete printed text, 95 pages, no date; miscellaneous financial accounts and memoranda on various subjects, 17th-18th century; the first two items with 18th century title-pages by M. Johnson of the Inner Temple, 8vo, 18th century calf, spine gilt, rubbed, weak at joints