PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY

Part 2: The Braye Manuscripts from the House of Lords Record Office

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Braye Ms 1: Letters and State Papers, 1572 - 1636

ff 1-10: 24-31 May, 25 June 1572. Fulk Onslow’s Journal of Proceedings in HC including f10 [17 June] ‘The Protestation of the Queen of Scots’. A personal journal or entry book made by Onslow for his own use or possibly for the information of his patron Lord Burghley. It includes summaries of speeches and comments not in the official Journal. Cf G R Elton, Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government, III (C U P, 1983), 168-70. HL MSS XL, ix-x, No 3186 in extenso; T E Hartley (ed) Proceedings in the Parliaments of Elizabeth I (Leciester University Press, 1981), I, 311-16, in extenso, omits ‘The Protestation of the Queen of Scots’; HMCB, 125-7 (extracts only).

f 11: 30 June 1601. Letter from Richard (Bancroft), Bishop of London, to an unknown recipient, appointing him to preach at St Paul’s Cross on 9 August next. Endorsed ‘The fourth time of my preaching at St Paul’s Cross. 9 August, 1601’. HCMB, 127 (abbreviated version); HL MSS, XI No 3253.

ff 12-13: 29 May 1624. Speech of Sir Thomas Crew, Speaker of HC, addressed to the King at the Prorogation. Condensed in LJ III, 423-4 and Rushworth I, 146. HMCB, 127; HL MSS, XI, No 3386.

ff 14-26: [April 1625]. ‘A discourse of passages between the Earls of Essex, Somersett, Northampton, the countesse of Essex, Sir Thomas Overbury and others, with their risings and falls. Together with diverse other affayres as they occurred during the late rainge of K James and also the Duke of Buckingham his first coming into favour’. Extracts in John Browne’s hand from a Braye volume entitled ‘Historical Memoirs’. HMCB, 110-11, 127; HL MSS, XI, No 3403.

ff 27-54: 22 March - 17 May 1626. Papers concerning the Earl of Bristol’s Case

ff 27-8: 22 March 1625-6. Petition of John, Earl of Bristol, for a Writ of Summons. Endorsed, ‘Referred to the Lords Committee for Priviledges’. LJ III, 537 in extenso. HMCB, 127; HL MSS, XI, No 3413(a). Cf copy of petition HMC, 4th Rept, App, 7.

ff 29-30: 19 April 1626. Petition of same to be allowed to attend HL to answer the charges against him. Endorsed, ‘yt was delivered to the Committee. 18 April’. LJ III, 563 in extenso; HMCB, 127; HL MSS, XI, No 3413(b). Cf copy of petition HMC 4th Rept, App, 9-10.

ff 35-6: 31 March 1626. Letter from Thomas Coventry, Lord Keeper to John, Earl of Bristol, for him to forbear his attendance in Parliament. LJ III, 563, in extenso. HMCB, 127; HL MSS, XI, No 3413(c).

ff 31-4: 12 April 1626. Letter from John, Earl of Bristol to Thomas Coventry. Lord Keeper, in reply to above. Endorsed, ‘Delivered to the Committee for Petitions 18 April 1626. Lecta 19 Apr’. LJ III, 563-4, in extenso; HMCB, 127; HL MSS, XI, No 3413(d), (c) and (d) probably annexed to (b).

ff 37: 8 May 1626. Petition of John, Earl of Bristol to H L, asking it to intercede on his behalf with the King. LJ, III, 588, in extenso; HMCB, 127; HL MSS, XI, No 3413(e).

ff 38-9: 8 May 1626. List of names of counsel the Earl of Bristol desired to be assigned to him. LJ III, 589, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3413(f).

ff 40-1: 8 June 1626. Petition of John, Early of Bristol, for a speedy hearing, etc. Endorsed, ‘Ordered by partes prout per librum’. LJ III, 669, in extenso. HMCB, 127; HL MSS, XI, No 3413(g).

f 42: 10 June 1626. Petition of same for HL to order appearance of specified witnesss. Endorsed ‘lecta 10 Junii 1626 granted’. Substance printed in LJ III, 672; HMCB, 127; HL MSS, XI, No 3413(h).

ff 43-4: 14 June 1626. Petition of same concerning witnesses etc. Endorsed, ‘lecta 14 June 1626 pm’. Printed in part, LJ, III, 580, last paragraph in HMCB, 127; HL MSS, XI, No 3413(i).

ff 45-6: 8 June 1626. Petition of same asking to be examined in person. Endorsed ‘lecta 8 Junii 1626. To be sent for presently’. Substance printed in LJ III, 655; HMCB, 127; HL MSS, XI, No 3413(j).

f 47: 9 June 1626. Petition of the same for the drawing of a formal charge against the Duke of Buckingham. Endorsed ‘lecta 9 Junii 1626. Ordered’. Substance printed in LJ III, 671; HMCB, 127; HL MSS, XI, No 3413(k) where charge wrongly stated to be against Bristol himself.

ff 48-9: 12 June 1626. Petition of the same for his cause to be expedited. Endorsed, ‘Ordered Mr Attorney to be sent unto (to hasten yt – deleted) to be here this afternoone. Ex’. H Elsynge. cler parl’. Substance printed in LJ III, 673; HMCB, 127; HL MSS, XI No 3413(l).

ff 50-1: 15 May 1626. Petition of same for counsel to be assigned to him and Mr Maxwell to be ordered to transmit the Earl’s petitions to HL. Endorsed ‘per Mr Maxwell. 15 May 1626. lecta 15 May 1626’. Cf LJ III, 627; HMCB, 127; HL MSS, XI, No 3413(m).

ff 52-3: 29 April 1626. The first part of the Draft Report of the Committee of Privileges concerning the Earl of Bristol, with a deleted passage and four other slight drafting changes. Endorsed ’29 April 1626. parte of the reporte of the Subcommittee for privileges touching the Earl of Bristol penned by the Earl of Clare’. LJ III, 574, in extenso; HMCB, 128; HL MSS, XI, No 3413(n).

f 54: 17 May 1626. Draft answer from the King to a message from HL concerning counsel for the Earl of Bristol, with a few amendments, Endorsed ’17 May 1626. Message from the Kinge touchinge Counsell in point of Treason against the E Bristoll’ LJ III, 629-30 in extenso; HMCB, 128; HL MSS, XI, No 3413(o).

ff 55-6: 30 June 1627. Copy of letter from the Council to the Commissioners for Loans in the County of Northampton. Calendaed in HMCB, 128; HL MSS, XI, No 3415.

ff 57-8: 22 November 1627. Funeral of John Browne
Lists of persons receiving cloaks etc. From the date this seems to refer to the funeral of his uncle and adoptive father, John Browne, merchant tailor.

(a) Imperfect, no heading. 2 pp names
(b) 22 November 1627 "Gowns cutt out for fren(ds) morners and sent home"
(c) Nd "…cloakd delivered out to frends"
Calendared under 27 November in error in HMCB, 128; HL MSS, XI, No 3416.

ff 59-87: 4-24 June 1628. Impeachment o Dr Roger Manwaring.

ff 59-66: 4 June 1628. Mr Pym’s speech at the Conference of both Houses. Proceedings sin Parliament 1628, vol IV, eds. M F Keeler, M J Cole and W B Bidwell (Yale University Press, 1978), 103-10 in extenso. HMCB, 128; HL MSS, XI, No 3428(a).

ff 67-8: 9 June 1628. List of witnesses Mr Pym deesired to call in support of his case (in Paym’s hand). Proceedings in Parliament, op cit, vol V, 608-9, in extenso. HMCB, 128; HL MSS, Xi, No 3428(b).

ff 69-78: 10 June 1628. Original signed (unless otherwise stated depositions of Abraham Speckart, Sir Thomas Conye (unsigned), Mathew Howland, Laurence Whitaker, Sir Francis Annesley, Sir William Lytton, Sir George Hastings (unsigned), Hamond Claxton, John Shelbery, John Knight, Sir Francis Darcy and Sir Daniel Norton. Endosed ‘Examinacions viz Manwaringe taken by the Committee 10 June 1628. Hamond Clarke (sic Claxton) and Sir Danel Norton only reade 11 Junii’. Proceedings in Parliament 1628, op cit, vol V, 614-7, in extenso. HMCB, 128; HL MSS, XI, No 3428(c).

ff 79-80: 11 June 1628. Notes on sermons by Dr Manwaring used by Serjeant Crewe and the Attorney General in support of the charge against him. HMCB, 128; HL MSS,, XI, No 3428(d).

ff81-4: 14 June 1628. Draft (heavily amended) of sentence on Dr Manwaring. LJ III, 855-6, in extenso. HMCB, 128; HL MSS, XI, No 3428(e).

ff 85-6: 21 June 1628. Original signed submission by Dr Manwaring before HL. LJ III, 870, in extremo. HMCB, 128; HL MSS, XI, No 3428(f).

f 87: 21 June 1628. Draft of one sentence of above. HL MSS, XI, No 3428(g).

ff 88-9: 30 December 1629. Copy in Browne’s hand of the King’s instructions to the Archbishop of Canterbury concerning Orders to be observed by the bishops of the Province. Printed in Rushworth, II, 30-1, except for the first two clauses which are printed in HMCB, 128; HL MSS, XI, No 3433.

ff 90-5: January 1630. Report of the trial of Walter Long in Star Chamber for alleged neglect of his duties as sheriff of Wiltshire whilst serving as MP for Bath. (Plaw French). Cf Rushworth, I, 684-6. HMCB, 128; HL MSS, XI, No 3434.

ff 96-16: 1632-6. Papers relating to John Durie’s mission to the Continent to effect an union between the Lutherans and the Calvinists.

ff 96-7: 1 November 1632. Hanua. Letter to William Laud, bishop of London, from Calvinist Ministers at Hanau expressing their wish for a union. A postscript laments the recent death of Gustavus Adolphuis. (Latin). Endorsed, received 11 November1633. HMCB, 129; HL MSS, XI, No 3444(a).

ff 98-9: 7 March 1632/3. Hanua. Letter from Paulus Tossanus, on behalf of Louis Philip, the Guardian and Administrator of the Palatinate, to George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury and William Laud, bishop of London, desiring peace between all the Evangelicals in Germany. (Latin). Endorsed, received 11 November 1633. HMCB, 129. HL MSS, XI, No 3444(b).

ff 100-1: 15 October 1633. Zurich. Copy of letter from the Churches of Switzerland to Durie in favour of religious toleration (Latin). Endorsed, received 26 April 1634. HMCB, 129; HL MSS, XI, No 3444.

ff102-3: 7 February 1633/4. Karlsburg, Transylvania. Letter from Stephen Katona Gelegi, bishop of the orthodox Hungarian churches in Transylvania and three professors of Karlsburg to Archbishop Abbot, praising Charles I’s leadership towards union. (Latin). HMCB, 129; HL MSS, XI, No 3444(d).

ff 104-111: Annexed to above. Paper on the method of effecting a union between the Evangelical Churches. Signed as (d) and also by fourteen other ministers and pastors of various places in Transylvania. (Latin). Endorsed, received 21 October 1634. HMCB, 129-30; HL MSS, XI, No 3444(f).

ff 112-3: 28 February 1633/4. Nuremburg. Copy of letter from George Richter to Durie in the name of the Free City of Nuremburg. (Latin). Endorsed, received 13 April 1634. HCMB, 130; HL MSS, XI, No 3444(f).

ff 114-5: 7 March 1633/4. Helmstedt. Copy of letter from the Dean, Seniors and Professors of Helmstedt Theological College to Durie. Mentions that their sovereign, the Duke of Brunswick is wholly in favour of union. (Latin). Endorsed, received 30 April 1634. HMCB, 130; HL MSS, XI, No 3444(g).

ff 116-9: 9 March 1633/4. Westminster . Letter from Durie to Laud discussing factors involved in the possible continuation of his mission. HMCB, 130; HL MSS, XI, No 3444(h).

ff 120-5: 28 March 1634. Dresden. Opinion of Dr Hoe on the lawfulness of a peace between Lutherans and Calvinists. Sent from Frankfurt 30 June 1634 by Sir Robert Anstruther, ambassador in Germany. (Latin). Endorsed, received 19 July 1634. HMCB, 131; HL MSS, XI, No 3444(i).

ff 126-33: Copy of same. HMCB, 131; HL MSS, XI, No 3444(j).

ff 134-5: ? March, April 1634. Letter from Durie to Laud enclosing letter from Nuremburg (ff 112-3). Asks for letter of recommendation to Diet at Frankfurt. Endorsed, received 13 April 1634. HMCB, 130; HL MSS, XI, No 3444(k).

f 136: 8 April 1634. Bulwick. Letter from Sir Thomas Rowe to Laud asking him to support Durie at the approaching Diet of Frankfurt. Endorsed, received 18 April 1634. HMCB, 130; HL MSS, XI, No 3444(l).

f 137: 22 April 1634. Copy of letter from Laid to Sir Robert Anstruther giving instructions on how to act in the reconciliation of Lutherans and Calvinists. HMCB, 130; HL MSS, XI, No 3444(m).

f 138: 24 July 1634. Frankfurt. Letter from Durie to Laud giving an account of the proceedings of the Diet at Frankfurt.

f 139: Annexed to above. Copy of Durie’s petition to the Diet. (Latin). Endorsed, received 8 August 1534. HMCB, 130-2; HL MSS, XI, No 3444(n).

f 140: 4 August 1634. Bulwick. Letter from Sir Thomas Rowe to Laud criticising Dr Hoe’s Opinion on reconciliation of the churches. Endorsed, received 23 August 1634. Cf fos 120-5. HMCB, 132; HL MSS, XI, No 3444(o).

f 141: 25 August 1634. Copy of letter from Laud to Rowe advising against answering Dr Hoe. HMCB, 132; HL MSS, XI, No 3444(p).

ff 142-3: 14 October 1634. Leiden. Letter from Durie to Laud. He is returning to England to give Laud a full account of the Diet. Endorsed, received 9 November 1634. HMCB, 130; HL MSS, XI, No 3444(q).

ff 144-57: 17 February 1634/5. ‘The Relation of Joh Durie his journey’. A narrative written to Laud of Durie’s activities from the time of his leaving England on 2 May 1634 until his return on 11 February 1634/5. Endorsed, received 12 March 1634/5. Summarised in HMCB, 132-3.

ff 158-9: Annexed. 1 September 1634. Copy of Decree of the Diet (Latin).

ff 160-1: nd. Letter from Durie to the Synods of Holland. (Latin). HMCB, 133; HL MSS, XI, No 3444(r).

ff 162-3: 31 May 1635. Draft testimonial from Laud in favour of Durie. Amended in Laud’s hand. (Latin). HMCB, 133; HL MSS, XI, No 3444(s).

ff 164-5: 4 August, 1-4 September 1635; 14 January 1635/6. Copies of the replies of thee Synods of South Holland and Utrecht and of Professors of Theology at Leiden to Durie’s proposals. They commend his good intentions but only a National Synod is competent to deal with the proposals. (Latin). HMCB, 133; HL MSS, XI, No 3444(t).

ff 166-7: 18 January 1635/6. Amsterdam. Letter from Durie to Laud describing his activities in the Netherlands since July 1635/6. HMCB, 133-4; HL MSS, XI, No 3444(u).

Braye Ms 2: Letters and State Papers, 1637-1641

ff 1-2: 11 July 1637. Letter from the Provos and Fellows of Oriel College, Oxford to Sir Thomas Cave of Stanford Hall asking him, as alumnus, for a benefaction. (Latin). HMCB, 134; HL MS, XI, No 3453.

ff 3-10: 25 August 1637. ‘The Scotts’ Remonstrance and theire Reasons against the Booke of Common Prayers’. Copy of remonstrance eof Noblemen, Barons, Burgesses, Ministers and Commons of Scotland to the Lords of Secret Council. Annexed: copy of reasons against the Book of Common Prayer. Cf Register of the Privy Council of Scotland 1635-1637, ser II, vi, 699. HMCB, 134; HL MSS, XI, No 3455.

ff 11-38: 18-24 July 1637. Suspension of the Bishop of Lincoln. Copy of proceedings in the Court of High Commission against John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln, for enforcing the sentence of suspension pronounced against him in Star Chamber. Annexed: copy of judgment in Star Chamber, 11 July 1637. HMCB, 134; HL MSS, XI No 3454.

ff 39-43: 1614-38 Assessments of Twickenham and Whitton
(a) 1616. Copy of letter from Justices of the Peace of Middlesex to the Earl of Buckingham. Master of the Horse, concerning an assessment of four loads of hay from Twickenham to Whitton for the king’s stables.
(b) 24 November 1614. Copy of survey of meadows and pastures in Twickenham.
(c) 1615. Copy of assessment for supplying hay.
(d) 7 March 1616/7. Similar assessment for the above.
(e) 28 August
1638. Copy of letter from Commissioners to ‘Rights worshipfull’ reporting enquiry into the assessment. HMCB, 134; HL MSS, XI, No 3332.

ff 44-5: [? January 1637-8]. Letter from John Crewe (brother-in-law) to John Browne reporting negotiations to purchase manor and rectory of Radstone Co Northants for Browne. Annexed; list of rents due at Radstone, Lady Day 1638. HMCB, 134 (abbreviated version of letter); HL MSS, XI No 3456.

ff 46-61: 24 January 1638/9, August 1639. Scottish General Assembly.

ff 46-9: (a) 24 January 1638/9. Copy of instrument by which Alexander Leslie, minister of St Maldoes, laid down his office as bishop of Dunkeld, followed by reports of the proceedings of the General Assembly at Edinburg, August 1639. HMCB, 135-6 (proceedings of the Assembly in extenso).

ff 50-61: (b) August 1639. Papers, mostly in Browne’s hand, entitled ‘the most Considerable passages of the late General Assembly holden at Edinborough 12 August 1639’; incomplete, pp 21-28 missing. Rushworth, II, 957-9 (part only). HMCB, 136; HL MSS, XI, No 3469.

f 62: [?1641]. Petition of the bishops of the Church of Scotland to the king asking that they are not excepted from proposed ‘Act of Oblivion and Pacification’. Cf The Acts of the parliament of Scotland V, 342. HMCB, 135, in extenso; HL MSS, XI, No 3462.

ff 63-4: 24 April 1640. Two Lords Resolutions concerning Supply and a Conference with HC. Endorsed ‘delivered to me [John Browne] by the Lord Keeper under his owne hand’. LJ IV, 67 in extenso. HMCB 136; HL MSS, XI No 3468.

ff 65-6: 25 April 1640. Notes in the hand of Lord Keeper (L Finch) for a speech at a Conference with HC ES Cope and WH Coates (eds), Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (Camden Fourth Series, vol 19, 1977), 256-6, in extenso. LJ IV, 68. HMCB, 136; HL MSS, XI No 3469.

ff 67-8: 28 April 1640. Copy of Pym’s speech at a Conference with HL. Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640, op cit, 182-4 (with minor variations). LJ IV, 72-3, in extenso in indirect speech. HMCB, 136; HL MSS, XI, No 3470.

ff 69-74: 1 May 1640. Speech of Lord Keeper to HC in the Painted Chamber, with some deletions and corrections. Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640, op cit, 266-72, in extenso. LJ, IV, 75-7 in extenso. HMCB, 136; HL MSS, XI, No 3471.

ff 75-6: 13 July 1640. Whitehall. Warrant of the Council to Henry Kyme, one of the messengers of the King’s Chamber, for the arrest of certain inhabitants of Hampton, Teddington, East Bedfont, Feltham and Sunbury. Signed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Earl of Strafford and eight others. HMCB, 136; HL MSS, XI, No 3463.

ff 77-8: 18 October [1640. York.] Copy, in Browne’s hand, of letter describing a report from the English Commissioners to the Council on negotiations with the Scots, and Council discussions thereon. HMCB, 136-8, in extenso; HL MSS, XI, No 3475 (a).

ff 79-80: 5 November 1640. Speech of Lord Keeper replying to William Lenthall’s presentation speech as Speaker. LJ not entered. HMCB, 138; HL MSS, XI, No 3477, in extenso.

f 81: 14 November 1640. Report of Lord Keeper to HL, on his being sent by the King to the Earl of Strafford.

f 81v: 14 November 1640. List of Lords Committee on the Northern Business, with note of adjournment (in Browne’s hand). LJ, IV, 91 in extenso. HMCB, 138; HL MSS, XI, No 3479(a).

ff 82-3: 27 November 1640. Official, signed statement of the practice of the Court of Star Chamber in the examination of witnesses and publications of depositions. Cf LJ IV, 124. HMCB, 138; HL MSS, XI, No 3482(a), in extenso.

ff 84-5: 1 December 1640. Petition of Earl of Stratford concerning his imprisonment of Mr Darley at York. Holograph unsigned. LJ, IV, 102, in extenso. HMCB 138; HL MSS, XI, No 3479(b).

ff 86-7: 8 December 1640. List of visitors to Earl of Stratford, supplied by the Lieutenant of the Tower. [on dorse]. Draft notes for Order concerning safe keeping of the Earl of Strafford. Cf LJ, IV, 106. HMCB, 138; HL MSS, XI, No 3479(c), in extenso.

ff 88-999: 23 Dec 1640. English and Scottish Commissioners.

ff 88-9: 9 December 1640. Answer of the English Commissioners to the fourth demand of the Scottish Commissioners concerning incendiaries. Cf Rushworth, III, I, 365. HMCB, 138, in extenso; HL MSS, XI, No 3475(b).

ff 90-1: 15 December 1640. Representation of the Scottish Commissioners concerning supplies for their army, with a few amendments. Signed Ad Blair. Cf Nalson, I, 680. HMCB, 138; HL MDD, XI, No 3475(c).

ff 92-5: 15 December 1640. The Scottish Commissioners’ charges against Archbishop Laud, first paragraph deleted. Signed Ad Blair. Nalson, I, 681 in extenso. HMCB, 138; HL MSS, XI, No 3765(d).

ff 96-7: 16 December 1640. The Scottish Commissioners’ charges against Earl of Strafford. Signed Ad Blair. Nalson, I, 686-8, in extenso. HMCB, 138; HL MSS, XI, No 3475(e).

ff 98-9: 23 December 1640. Copy of reply of the Scottish Commissioners to the King’s answer concerning incendiaries. Cf Rushworth, III, I, 365. HMCB, 138; HL MSS, XI, No 3475(f).

ff 100-1: 8 January 1640-1. Schedule of records and pleadings in the Star Chamber (concerning Sir Richard Wiseman) delivered by the registrar to John Browne by order of HL. LJ, IV, 125. HMCB, 138; HL MSS, XI, No 3492(b), in extenso.

ff 102-3: 14 January 1640-1. Copy of conclusion fo speech by Lord Falkland after the reading of the Articles of Impeachment against Lord Keeper Finch. Nalson, I, 726, in extenso. HMCB, 138; HL MSS, XI, No 3494(b).

ff 104-5: 3 February 1640-1. Statement (in hand of Bishop Williams of Lincoln) on the question whether the bishops should speak or vote on the impeachment of the Earl of Strafford. LH, IV, 150. HMCB, 138-9; HL MSS, XI, No 3479(d), in extenso.

ff 106-7: 16 February 1640-1. Draft instructions to the Lord Keeper for a vote of thanks to the King for his assent to the Triennial Act. LJ, 164, in extenso. HMCB, 139; HL MSS, XI, No 3500.

ff 108-9: 23 March 1640-1. Copy of protest of HL of the Parliament of Ireland concerning the preamble to thee Act of Four Subsidies, read on 23 March during the trial of the Earl of Strafford. Attested, Phillip Percivall, Clerk of the Parliament (of Ireland). J Rushworth, Trial of the Earl of Strafford, 113. Calendared in HMCB, 139; HL MSS, XI, No 3479(h).

f 110: 6 March 1640-1. Message of HC that they are ready to prove their case against the Earl of Strafford. LJ, IV, 177, in extenso. HMCB, 139; HL MSS, XI, No 3479(g).

ff 111-2: 9 March 1640-1. Index (list) of the remaining heads contained in the eighth demand of the Scottish Commissioners for establishing a firm and durable peace. Signed Ad Blair. Cf LJ, IV, 216. HMCB, 139; HL MSS, XI, No 3475(g), in extenso.

ff 113-4: 15 March 1640-1. Copy of the answer of the English Commissioners to the Scottish Commissioners concerning uniformity of the Church government. Cf LJ, IV, 216. HMCB, 139, conclusion in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3475(h).

ff 115-6: 15 March 1640-1. Answer of the Scottish Commissioners to the above. Signed Ad Blair. Cf LJ, 216. Calendared in HMCB, 139-40; HL MSS, XI, No 3475(i).

ff 117-8: [nd] Paper containing notes of the manner in which the trial of the Earl of Strafford is to be conducted. HMCB, 140; HL MSS, XI, No 3479(e), in extenso.

ff 119-20: [August 1640]. Copy (in Browne’s hand) of a memorandum concerning a petition of the gentry and clergy of Devon against the ‘oath in the new canons’, with (incomplete) text of petition to the Lords of the Privy Council. CSP Dom 1640, 567; Rushworth, II, 1207-9 (petition, in extenso). HMCB, 140; HL MSS, XI, no ref.

ff 121-3: 2 April 1641. Petition of Sir Thomas Aston on behalf of the County Palatine of Chester, against a libel printed as a petition in the name of the said county against bishops. Annexed: list of warrants prayed for several persons concerned with the printing of the libel. LV, IV, 204; Nalson, I, 795. HMCB, 140; HL MSS, XI, No 3509.

ff 124-5: 10 April 1641. Reasons for the order concerning the examination of new witnessed in Strafford’s trial. LJ, IV, 212-3, in extenso with additional sentence in original. HMCB, 140; HL MSS, XI, No 3479(j)

ff 126-7: 12 April 1641. Notes of what passed at a Conference between the Houses concerning a paper read in HL as evidence for Article twenty-three against Strafford. LJ, IV, 215; Nalson, II, 103. HMCB, 140; HL MSS, XI, No 3479(k).

ff 128-9: 12 April 1641. Copy of the answer of the English Commissioners to the Scottish Commissioners concerning unity of Church Government. HMCB, 140, in extenso; HL MSS, XI, No 3475(j).

ff 130-5: 26 April 1641. Speech by Edward Hyde against the President and Council of the North at a Conference of both Houses. LJ, IV, 226; Rushworth, III, i, 230-3, in extenso; Nalson I, 801-4 in extenso. HMCB, 140; HL MSS, XI, No 3511.

ff 136-7: 1 May 1641. Heads of the King’s Speech concerning the Earl of Strafford. LJ, IV, 232. Substance in Rushworth, Trial of the Earl of Strafford, 734 and Nalson, II, 186-7; final paragraph in HMCB, 140; HL MSS, XI, No 3479(l).

ff 138-9: [post May 1641]. Deposition of Euseby Andrewes concerning John Lylborne. LJ, no ref. Calendared in HMCB, 140-1; HL MSS, XI No 3567.

ff 140-1: 5 May 1641. Petition of Earl of Strafford to HL asking to be heard in answer to the new matter alleged by HC concerning the Bill of Attainder. Holograph, signed. Endorsed, lecto 5 Maii 1641. LJ, no ref. Calendaed in HMCB, 141; HL MSS, XI, No 3479(m).

ff 142-3: 5-7 May 1641. Copy of Resolutions of HL against the Earl of Strafford, with Judges’ opinion. LJ, IV, 239 (Judges’ Opinion only, the Resolutions were erased from the original). HMCB, 141-2, in extenso; HL MSs, XI, No 3479(n). C Russell, ‘the Theory of Treason in the Trial of Strafford’, HER, LXXX (1965), 49-50, in extenso.

ff 144-159: 4 May – 19 June 1641. The First Army Plot. Original Examinations (signed) concerning an alleged plot to bring contingents of the English army, under Colonel George Goring, to London in support of the king against parliament. The Examinations are printed in An Extract Collection of all Remonstrances, Declarations, Ordinances and other passages between the King’s Majesty and his Parliament… (London, printed for Edward Husbands, et al, 1643. BL Thomason Tracts E241). They are annexed to the Declaration of the Lords and Commons, 19 May 1642 (see Braye MS 7).

ff 144-5: 4 May 1641. Original examination of Elizabeth Nutt, Anne Bardsey and Anne Vyner. An Exact Collection, 236, in extenso. HMCB, 142; HL MSS, XI, No 3583(a).

f 146
11 May 1641. Original examination of John Lanyon. An Exact Collection, 234 in extenso. HMCB, 142; HL MSS, XI, No 3585(b).

ff 147-8: 11 May 1641. Original examination of Capt James Chudleigh. Witnessed by the Earls of Essex and Warwick, Lord P Howard and Lord W Howard. An Extract Collection, 220, in extenso. HMCB, 142; HL MSS, XI, No 3585(c).

ff 149-50: 18 May 1641. Original second examination of Capt Chudleigh. Witnessed by the Earls of Essex and Warwick, Lord Saye and Seele and Lord Howard. An Extract Collection, 220, in extenso. HMCB, 142; HL MSS, XI, No 3585(d).

ff 151-2: 18 May 1641. Original examination of Capt William Legge. An Exact Collection, 224, in extenso. HMCB, 142; HL MSS, XI, No 3583(e).

ff 153-4: 29 May 1641. Original examination of Colonel William Vavasour. Witnessed by Viscount Mandeville, Lord Wharton and Lord Howard. An Exact Collection, 227, in extenso. HMCB, 142; HL MSS, XI, No 3585(f).

f 155: Blank sheet endorsed ‘Petition of the Lord Strafford to the House of Lords 1641’.

ff 156-7: 2 June 1641. Original examination of Sir William Balfour, Lieutenant of the Tower. Witnessed by the Earls of Essex and Warwick, Viscount Mandeville, Lord Wharton and Wharton and Lord Howard. An Exact Collection, 232, in extenso. HMCB, 142; HL MSS, XI, No 3585(g).

ff 158-9: 19 June 1641. Original examination of Colonel George Goring. An Exact Collection, 215, in extenso. HMCB, 142; HL MSS, XI, No 3585(h).

ff 160-68: 4 February 1640-1 – 13 August 1641. Committee for Petitions. Orders made by the HL Committee for Petitions concerning the following Appeal Cases and Petitions (P).

f 160: 6 June 1641. Edward Knipe v William Curteene. (A) LJ no ref [Wed] June 1641. Andrew Kerwyn v Dr Featley. (A) LJ, IV, 483.

f 162: 13 July 1641. Sir William Monyns, bt (P) LJ no ref. 20 July 1641. Edward Noye. (P) LV, IV, 321.

f 162v: 11 June 1641. Dr Hannibal Potter. (P) LJ no ref. 6 February 1640-1. Francis Paul v John Oldbury et al. (A) LJ no ref.

f 163: 7 July 1641. Lady Elizabeth Middleton v Thomas Bushell (A) LJ no ref. 3 July 1641. Lady Elizabeth Middleton v Thomas Bushell (A) LJ no ref.

f 163v: 17 June 1641. Margaret Medcalfe. (P) LJ no ref. 9 June 1641. Dr Robert Medcalfe. (P) LJ no ref. HMCB, 142.

f 164: 23 July 1641. Edward Mayne v Sir Robert Bannester et al. (A) LJ, IV, 331. 13 August 1641. Sir Robert Mansell v Richard Batson et al. (A) LJ, IV, 335. 29 July 1641. Tobias Martin v [Richard] Libb. (A) LJ no ref. 5 June 1641. Francis Marshall. (P) LJ, IV, 278,

f 165: 19 July 1641. George Mynn v Sir John Wintour. (A) LJ no ref.

f165v: 6 March 1640-1. Toby Pallavicyne v Fuler Meade et al. (A) LJ, Iv, 156.

f 166: 8 July 1641. Archibald Mackellr v Sir William Bellfore and Dr Shipsea. (A) LJ no ref. 8 June 1641. Dame Anne Mollineux. (P) LJ no ref. 19 February 1640-1. Isabell Massie. (P) LJ no ref.

f 166v: 16 June 1641. Jonas Legg. (P) LJ, IV, 411. 5 August 1641. Robert Lane v William Baud. (A) LJ III, 650.

f 167v: 4 February`640-1. Andrew Keate v Dr Eden. (A) LJ IV, 146. 30 July 1641. Order for a Committee for the examination of certain Justices of Middlesex. LJ no ref.

f 168: 27 May 1641. William Jackson v Thomas Batt et al. (A) LJ no ref. HMCB, 142; HL MSS, XI, No 3522.

ff 169-72: Blank

ff 173-6: 24 July 1641. Security of Religion Bill. Draft (in Browne’s hand) of an Act for the securing of the true Religion, the Safety and Honour of His Majesty’s Person, the just Rights of the Subject, and the better Discovery and Punishment of Popish Recusants. Endorsed ‘1640. Instrucions for taking the Protestacion’. 19 July, from HC. LJ, IV, 319; 24 July, read 1a, ibid 328; 29 July, read 2a, House in Committee and Bill rejected, ibid 333. HMCB, 143; HL MSS, XI, No 3528(a), in extenso.

ff 177-84: 19-24 July 1641. Quarrel between the Earl of Pembroke and Lord Mowbray.

ff 177-8: 19 July 1641. Report of a quarrel between the Lord Chamberlain (the Earl of Pembroke) and Lord Mowbray in the Committee for Privileges. Lord Pembroke struck Lord Mowbray with his white staff. Lord Mowbray threw a standish at Lord Pembroke but missed. LJ no ref; Draft Journalssub 19, 21, 22, 24 July (Braye MS 20). Rushworth, III, i, 350. HMCB, 143; in extenso; HL MSS, XI, No 3527(b).

ff 179-80: 21 July 1641. Petition of Philip, Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery apologizing to the House. Endorsed ‘lecta 21 Julii 1641’. HMCB, 143; HL MSS, XI, No 3527(c), in extenso.

ff 181-2: 22 July 1641. Petition of Henry, Lord Mowbray and Maltravers apologizing to the House. Endorsed ‘lecta 22 Julii 1641’. HMCB, 143; HL MSS, XI, No 3527(d), in extenso.

ff 183-4: 24 July 1641. Appointment of Lords Committee to draw up the submissions of the Earl of Pembroke and Lord Mowbray. Signed, Ro Brooke Cleric, Parliamentor (sic the Clerk of the Parliaments was John Browne). HMCB, 143; HL MSS, XI, No 3527(f), in extenso. For further draft apology and petitions in the Main Papers see HL MSS, XI, No 3527 (h,I and HMC 4th Rept, App 91.

ff 185-96: 16 August 1641. HL Committee for the taking of examinations concerning the Earl of Traquair and others ‘who are pursued as Incendiaries’.

ff 185-6: Original Examination of Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery. Signed Pembroke and Montgomery. Subscribed as examiners by Earl of Warwick and Dover and Lord Mandeville. (On dorse, heavily deleted draft of further examination of Earl of Pembroke). LJ, IV, 365. HMCB, 143; HL MSS, XI, No 3537(a), in extenso.

ff 187-8: Original examination of Lord Mandeville. Signed Mandeville. Subscribed as examiners by Earls of Warwick, Dover and Loudoun and Lord Howards of Escrick. HMCB, 144; HL MSS, XI, No 3537 (b), in extenso.

ff 189-90: Original examination of Earl of Stirling. Signed Sterlinge. Subscribed as examiners by Earls of Warwick and Dover and Lord Howard of Escrick. HMCB, 144; HL MSS, XI, No 3537(c), in extenso.

ff 191-2: Original examination of Robert Younge, Printer. Signed Robert Young. Subscribed as examiners by Earls of Warwick, Dover and Loudoun and Lord Howard of Escrick. HMCB, 144; HL MSS, XI, No 3537(d), in extenso.

ff 193-4: Original examination of Robert Chapman, Compositor. Signed Robert Chapman. Subscribed as the last. HMCB, 144; HL MSS, XI, No 3537(e), in extenso.

ff 195-6: Original examination of William Warriner. Signed William Warriner. Subscribed asa examiners by Earls of Warwick, Dover and Loudon, Lord Mandville and Lord Howard of Escrick. HMCB, 144; HL MSS, XI, No 3537(e), in extenso.

ff 197-9: 31 August 1641. Draft (in hand of Bishop Williams of Lincoln) of letter from HL to the Lords Justices of Ireland. LJ, IV, 387, in extenso. HMCB, 144; HL MSS, XI, No 3539.

ff 199-202: 3-4 September 1641. Riot at French Ambassador’s House.

f 199: 3 September 1641. Information of George Carpenter, servant to the Ambassador. Calendared in HMCB, 144; HL MSS, XI, No 3541(a).

f 200: 3 September 1641. List of persons apprehended by the constables at the time. HMCB, 144; HL MSS, XI, No 3541(b).

ff 201-2: 4 September 1641. Examinations of those apprehended and of two witnesses. HMCB, 144; HL MSS, XI, No 3541(c). Cf Lf, IV, 382, 389.

ff 203-212: 29-30 October 1641. The Second Army Plot. Original Examinations (signed) concerning an alleged second plot to bring the army to London in support of the king. Cf the first plot (f 144-159).

ff 203-4: 29 October 1641. Original examination of Sir Jacob Astley. An Exact Collection, 232, in extenso. HMCB, 144; HL MSS, XI, No 3585(i)

ff 205-6: 29 October 1641. Original examination of Sir Fulke Huncks. An Exact Collection, 232, in extenso. HMCB, 144; HL MSS, XI, No 3585(j).

ff 207-8: 29 October 1641. Original examination of Sir John Conyers. An Exact Collection, 230, in extenso. HMCB, 144; HL MSS, XI, No 3585(k).

ff 209-10: 30 October 1641. Original second examination of Sir John Conyers. An Exact Collection, 230, in extenso. HMCB, 144; HL MSS, XI, No 3585(l).

ff 211-12: 30 October 1641. Original examination of Captain William Legge. An Exact Collection, 228, in extenso. HMCB, 144; HL MSS, XI, No 3585(m).

f 213: 20 December 1641. Letter from A Fullarton to anonymous correspondent concerning request of the Scottish Commissioners for an answer to their propositions. Endorsed ‘8th paper of the Commissioners of Scotland’. LJ, IV, 482, in extenso. Calendared in HMCB, 145; HL MSS, XI, No 3554.

REEL 2
Braye Ms 3: Letters and State Papers, 1648-1710

ff 1-3: 21-24 February 1647/8. Attempted escape of the Duke of York.

f 1: 21 February 1647/8. Order made at a Committee of both Houses at Derby House. 24 February reported to HL. LJ X, 77, in extenso. HMCB, 167; HL MSS, XI, No 3663(a).

f 2: nd. Examination of the Duke of York. Signed, Yorke. LJ, X 77, in extenso. HMCB, 167; HL MSS, XI, No 3663(b).

f 3: nd. Holograph letter of the Duke of York, partly in cypher. Signed, J Darly. LJ, X 77, in extenso. HMCB, 168; HL MSS, XI, No 3663(c)

f 3 (annex): nd. Same copied and decoded. LJ, X, 77, in extenso. HMCB, 168; HL MSS, XI, No 3663(d).

f 4: [18 or 19] July 1648. Copy of letter describing an engagement between Scottish and parliamentary forces near Appleby Co Westmorland. Cf Rushworth, IV, pt 2, 1200-1. Calendared in HMCB, 168; HL MSS, XI, No 3665.

ff 5-6: 8 September 1648. Draft letter from Parliament to the Estates of East Friesland thanking them for preventing the levying of troops there against England (Latin). LJ, CJ, no ref, HMCB, 168; HL MSS, XI, No 3666.

ff 7-10: 14-20 September 1648. Letters from Thomas Margetts (Judge-Advocate for Major-General Lambert’s forces in the north) to John Browne, describing the actions of Cromwell, Lambert and their forces in Northern England and Scotland.

ff 7-8: 14 September 1648. Brancepath near Durham. Margetts to Browne. HMCB, 168-9, pratically in extenso; HL MSS, XI, No 3667(a).

ff 9-10: 20 September 1648. Belford Co Northumberland. The same to the same. HMCB, 169, in extenso; HL MSS, XI, No 3667(b).

ff 11-12: 21 September 1648. A catalogue of books and papers delivered to the Committee appointed to treat personally with the King, listing 35 items, including Bills, Ordinances, Treaties, the Solemn League and Covenant, etc. HMCB, 169; HL MSS, XI, No 3668.

f 13: 26 September 1648. Mordington E Berwickshire. Letter from Thomas Margetts to Browne. Calendared in HMCB, 170-1; HL MSS, XI, No 3667(c).

ff 14-15: Annexed to above. 20 September 1648. Edinburgh. Copies of two letters from Earl of Loudoun to Col Lodowick Lesley, Governor of Berwick and one letter from Earl of Leven to Lesley. HMCB, no ref; HL MSS, XI, No 3667(c)

ff 16-17: 2 October 1648. Berwick. Copy of letter from Oliver Cromwell to [William Lenthall, Speaker of HC]. Appended, n.d. copy of letter from Earl of London. T Carlyle, Oliver Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches (2nd ed 1866), I 318-21, in extenso (not Loudoun’s letter0. HMCB, 171; HL MSS, XI, No 3669

ff 18-24: 3 October – 1 November 1648. Further letters from Margetts to Browne.

ff 18-19: 3 October 1648. Seaton near Musselburgh. The same to the same. HCMB, 171-2, in extenso; HL MSS, XI, No 3667(d).

f 20: 10 October 1648. Dalkeith. The same to thje same. HMCB, 172, in extenso; HL MSS, No 3667(e).

f 21: 13 October 1648. Edinburgh. Warrant to the Lairds of Swinton, Arnot and Liberton to compensate English forces which had been plundered. Signed A Henderson. Calendared in HMCB, 172; HL MSS, XI, No 3670.

f 22: 17 October 1648. Seaton. Margetts to Browne. Calendared in HMCB, 173; HL MSS, XI, No 3667(f).

ff 23-4: 1 November 1648. Broxmouth, East Louthian. The same to the same. HMCB, 173, practically in extenso; HL MSS, XI, No 3667(g).

ff 25-6: 6 December 1648. Petition of East India Company praying that the ship Ruth, equipped by Alderman Andrews and others, may not be permitted to proceed to the East Indies. Cf LJ, X, 617, 624; HMCB, 173-4; HL MSS, XI, No 3671,

ff 27-8: 24 January 1648/9. Order of the High Court of Justice to Mr Millington and Thomas Challoner to collect from John Browne such papers in his custody as are needed for the business of the court and for Browne to deliver same. HCMB, 174; HL MSS, XI, No 3673(a).

ff 29-30: nd. Receipt for papers delivered according to above by John Browne. Signed Thomas Chaloner and Gilbert Millington. 30 papers listed. HMCB, 174; HL MSS, XI, No 3673(b).

ff 31-2: [post 9 February] 1648/9. Biography of John Packer of Shilingford, Co Berks, John Browne’s father-in-law. Calendared in HMCB, 174; HL MSS, XI, No 3674.

f 33: 15 March 1649/50. Assessment of the parish of Twickenham for raising a sum towards the maintenance of parliamentary forces under Lord Fairfax, from 25 March to 25 June 1650. HMCB, 174-5; HL MSS, XI, No 3675.

ff 34-5: 8 September 1651. Letter from Rowland Berkely to his father-in-law, Sir Thomas Cave, describing the battle of Worcester. HMCB, 175, practically in extenso; HL MSS, XI, No 3677(a).

ff 36-7: 12 September 1651. Cotheridge. The same to the same, further describing the battle. HMCB, 175-6, practically in extenso; HL MSS, XI, No 3677(b).

ff 38-31: [January 1653/4]. Copy (in Browne’s hand) of ‘The humble addresse of the officers and souldiers of the army’ to ‘his Highnesse the Lord Protector’ pledging loyalty to him. There follow 11 ‘exceptions against subscription’ ie reasons against signing the above address and ‘Some queries and Observations touching the Army to the Protector debated’. Cf Whitelocke’s Memorials (1732), 580. Address calendared in HMCB, 176-7; HL MSS, XI, No 3680.

ff 42-43: 1 September 1655. Madrid. Declaration of the King of Spain. Translation (in Browne’s hand) of the King of Spain’s declaration laying an embargo on all English vessels and goods found in Spanish ports and territory in consequence of Sir William Penn’s attack on San Domingo. HMCB, 177; HL MSS, XI, No 3681.

ff 44-50: 1 August 1656. ‘the Substance of what Passed at the Councell Table the 1st of August 1656. Betweene the Lorde Protector and the Lord Bradshawe’. Account 9n Browne’s hand) by John Bradshaw of his dispute with Cromwell in Council. Paul J Pinckney, ‘Bradshaw and Cromwell in 1656’ in Huntington Library Quarterly, XXX, No 3 (1967), 233-40, in extenso. HMCB, 177; HL MSS, XI, No 3682.

ff 51-2: 30 May 1660. Declaration by John Browne to obtain benefit of the General Pardon. Signed Jo Browne. Witnessed by the Earl of Manchester. Endorsed ‘My Accepting of his maisties Gratious Pardon’. LJ, no ref. HMCB, 177; HL MSS, XI, No 3687, in extenso.

f 53: 3 October 1661. Order for certain persons to appear before William Whitehead, Messenger, at the Star, Southampton. On the verso, names of persons summoned in the town and county of Gloucester. HMCB, 177; HL MSS, XI, No 3694(a).

f 54: nd. Petition of William Whitehead to the King for compensation for his losses in the Civil War. HMCB, 177, practically in extenso; HL MSS, XI, No 3694(b).

f 55: 7-8 April 1662. Explanation proposed by the Bishop of Worcester concerning the clause about the Solemn League and Covenant in the Bill of Uniformity. LJ, XI, 422-4. Calendared in HMCB, 177; HL MSS, XI, No 3700.

ff 56-7: 15 May 1662. Original message from the King under the Sign Manual concerning the conclusion of the Session. LJ, XI, 460, in extenso. HMCB, 177; HL MSS, XI, No 3701 (where misdated 17 May).

ff 58-9: 27 April 1664. Certificate of appointment of William Whitehead as Messenger in Extraordinary to the King. Signed by the Earl of Manchester. Wafer seal. HMCB, 177; HL MSS, XI, No 3694(c).

ff 60-1: 23 August 1665. Copy of Rules and Orders made by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford and the Justices of the Peace, for the safety of the university, city and county in time of plague. HMCB, 177; HL MSS, XI, No 3703.

ff 62-3: 1666. Table showing the rents at which the excise of each county was let to farmers for the year 1665-6. HMCB, 178, in extenso; HL MSS, XI, No 3712.

ff 64-5: 7 October 1665 (NS). Madrid. Letter describing the death and funeral ceremonies of King Philip IV. No address or signature. HMCB, 178-9, in extenso; HL MSS, XI, No 3704.

ff 66-7: 30 May 1666. Letter from Philip Packer (brother-in-law) to Browne concerning naval matters. Calendared in HMCB, 179; HL MSS, XI, No 3708.

ff 67-8: 20 October 1666. Hornby Castle. Letter from Lord Darcy and Meinill to Viscount Andover concerning the precedence of English peers over foreign nobility. LJ, XII, 28-9 in extenso. HMCB, 179; HL MSS, XI, No 3709.

ff 69-70: 8 January 1666/7. Westminster. Letter from William Ryley, sen, to William Ryley, jun, concerning precedents of impeachments of peers, to be produced for HL. Cf LJ , XII, 70. Calendared in HMCB, 179; HL MSS, XI, No 3713.

f 71: 20 June 1667. Order made in the Queen Mother’s Council Chamber for witnesses to attend to prove arrears of rent owed by John Browne for message at Twickenham. Calendared in HMCB, 179; HL MSS, XI, No 3715.

ff 72-3: 4 July 1667. Parliament Office. Letter from John Walker sen, Clerk Assistant, to John Browne concerning parliamentary business and affairs of state. Calendared in HMCB, 180; HL MSS, XI, No 3716.

ff 74-5: 22 November 1667. Report (in hand of Lord Ashley) of Conference with HC concerning the impeachment of the Earl of Clarendon. HL resolution on the same. LJ, XII, 144, in extenso. HMCB, 180; HL MSS, XI, No 3717.

ff 76-7: 2 December 1667. Report of Judges to HL in the case of Heron v Selvin. Attested by Mr Justice Wyndham, Baron Raynsford and Mr Justice Morton. LJ XII, 158, in extenso. HMCB, 180; HL MSS, XI, No 3718.

ff 78-9: 27 April 1668. Precedents ‘concerning the manner of Proceeding against Persons Impeached by the House of Commons for misdemeanours’. Precedents range in date from 1621 to 1666. Cf LJ XIII, 234-5. HMCB, 180; HL MSS, XI, No 3719.

f 80: 7 June 1668. Letter from Lord Howard of Charleton to (? John Browne) sending copy of his speech (now lost). HMCB, 180; HL MSS, XI, No 3721.

f 81: 23 May 1670. Eydon. Letter from Richard Ellis to his master (John Browne) concerning the provision of a man and a horse at the muster of the yeomanry. HMCB, ; HL MSS, XI, No 3730.

ff 82-3: 27 May 1670. Dover. Copy of Order in Council directed to William, Earl of Craven, Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex and of the Borough of Southwark, for the seizure of sectaries and disaffected persons. Calendared in HMCB, 180-1; HL MSS, XI, No 3731.

ff 84-5: 22 September 1670. Letter from John Walker sent to John Browne concerning Parliament Office business and meetings of Commissioners for an Union with Scotland. Calendared in HMCB, 180-1; HL MSS, XI, No 3733.

f 86: 12 January 1672/3. Summons, by virtue of a Commission issuing out of Chancery in the suit John Browne et al v Bernard Maunder et al, to named witnesses to appear for examination at the Red Lion at Moreton Pinkeney. Signed and sealed H Farmer and Edward Bromwich, Commissioners. HMCB, 181; HL MSS, XI, No 3746.

ff 87-8: 1 March 1672/3. Report of speech by Lord chancellor, acquainting HL with what passed between the King and HC with regard to the dispensing power. LJ XII, 539-40. Calendared in HMCB, 181-2; HL MSS, XI, No 3752.

ff 89-90: 29 May 1673. Copy of letter from "JH" on board the Rupert describing engagement with the Dutch fleet. HMCB, 182, in extenso; HL MSS, XI, No 3754(a).

ff 91-2: 16 August 1673. Copy of letter from Henry Heming (? to Earl of Sandwich) including a description of battle of the Texel. HMCB, 182-3, in extenso; HL MSS, XI, No 3754(b).

ff 93-5: 25 January 1673/4. London. Translation of letter from the Marquis de Ruvigny, French Ambassador, to the King remonstrating against the conclusion of a separate peace treaty between England and the Dutch. HMCB, 183; HL MSS, XI, No 3755.

ff 96-7: Post 14 May 1675. Petition in verse of John Taylor, imprisoned in Bethlehem for blasphemy, to the King, for his release. Cf LJ, XII, 691, 700-1; XIII, 26. HMCB, 183; HL MSS, XI, No 3760.

ff 98-101: 8 November 1675. Copy of the narrative of M de Luzancy concerning his forced recantation of Protestantism, including copy of threatening letter to him from certain Jesuits. Read in HC and referred to Committee which reported 13 November. CJ, IX, 369-70, 375-6. HMCB, 183; HL MSS, XI, No 3758.

ff 102-11: [November 1675]. Copy of a Bill for the ease and security of all Protestant Dissenters. Endorsed ‘Offered to the House by the Duke of Bucks’. LJ, and CJ no ref. Cf W Kennet, Complete History of England, III (1719), 337. Calendared in HMCB, 183; HL MSS, XI, No 3759.

ff 112-3: 3 April 1677. Reasons of HL for rejected a proviso added in HC to a Bill for ‘naturalizing the children of English subjects born in foreign countries during the late troubles’. LJ, XIII, 97. HMCB, 183; HL MSS, XI, No 3767.

ff 114-6: 16 February 1676/7. Reprimand of the Earl of Salisbury for asserting that Parliament was dissolved by the last Prorogation of 15 months. Annexed the submission of the Earl of Salisbury. The Original MS Journal contains full proceedings against Salisbury and the Duke of Buckingham, Earl of Shaftesbury and Lord Wharton. The entries were vacated by order of 13 November 1680 and not printed, cf LJ, XIII, 39 passim. HMCB, 183; HL MSS, XI, No 3762, in extenso.

ff 117-8: [1678] Copy of representation by John, Earl of Cassilis to the King concerning events in Scotland consequent on the issue of a Commission of the Privy Council of 26 December 1677 to raise the Highlanders, march to Stirling etc, the Earl being denounced as a rebel. LJ, no ref. HMCB, 183-5, practically in extenso; HL MSS, XI, No 3773,

ff 119-24: 3-4 May 1678. Anglo-Dutch Treaty Papers

ff 119-20: 3 May 1678. Copy of paper delivered by the English Commissioners to the Dutch Ambassadors (French).

f 121: Translation of above.

ff 122-3: 4 May 1678. Original reply of the Dutch Ambassadors, Signed C van Beuningen and D Leyden van Leewen (French).

f 124: Translation of above. LJ, XIII, 214. HMCB, 185; HL MSS, XI, No 3771.

f 125: 21 April 1685. St James’. Copy of letter from Earl of Peterborough, Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire, to the sheriff forbidding him to raise the militia at the time of an election. HMCB, 185; HL MSS, XI, No 3780

f 126: 1 March 1688/9. Draft HL Address, with corrections, to the King desiring him to take measures for the security of the government. LJ, XIV, 135, in extenso (corrected text). HMCB, 185; HL MSS, XI, No 3792.

ff 127-8: 8 March 1688/9. Original Address of the City of London thanking HL for its conduct of recent affairs. Endorsed as read 12 March 1688/9. LJ, XIV, 146, in extenso. HMCB, 185; HL MSS, XI, No 3797

ff 129-30: 20 April 1689. Original message from the King, with the Sign Manual. He will support the Church of England; he recommends toleration of dissenters and he will summon a Convocation. LJ, XIV, 183, in extenso. HMCB, 185; HL MSS, XI, No 3803.

f 131: 2 May 1689. Copy of Order of George Bridges, Justice of the Peace, Co Hants, to all constables and other officers thereof, for the apprehending of a company of Irish men and women who on 1 May had burnt down the town of New Alresford. LJ, no ref. Calendared in HMCB, 185; HL MSS, XI, No 3805.

f 132: 14 May 1689. Copy of Order to the keeper of Newgate to bring Sir Robert Wright before HL on 15 May and for Sir Richard Holloway and Mr Justice Powell to attend at the same time. Cf LJ, XIV, 187, 211. HMCB, 185; HL MSS, XI, No 3806.

ff 133-4: 25 May 1689. Draft reasons offered to HC at Conference on the Additional Poll Bill, with alterations and annotations in hand of Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury. LJ, XIV, 221. HMCB, 186; HL MSS, XI, No 3808.

ff 136-7: 16 March 1690/1. Parliament Office. Letter from John Walker Jnr, Clerk Assistant, to John Browne, news of the siege of Mons etc. Calendared in HMCB, 186; HL MSS, XI, No 3817.

f 138: 5 July [1708]. Letter from Col A Oughton to Sir Thomas Cave, describing the battle of Oudenharde. Calendared in HMCB, 186; HL MSS, XI, No 3827.

f 139: [3 March 1710. Letter from Sir Thomas Cave to Col Oughton. Extracted before sale at Sotheby’s].

ff 140-73: 1659-99. Navy Lists

ff 140-1: 1659. ‘The Summer Fleet’, giving the names of ships, their burden, number of crew, number of guns and captains’ names.

ff 142-3: [1660]. ‘A list of his Majestie’s ships whose names have beene changed since his Majestie’s happy returne to England’, and a list of the Red, White and Blue Squadrons.

ff 144-9: 1664. ‘The number and nature of guns proportioned in tyme of warr by the officers of his Majestie’s Ordinance’, a list of the number and type of guns carried by each ship.

ff 150-1: 1665 [Before June]. A list of English ships divided into Squadrons: Red Squadron, the Duke of York; White, Prince Rupert; Blue, Earl of Sandwich, showing ships’ names, captains, men and guns.

ff 152-3: [May 1665]. A list of the Dutch Fleeet, ships’ names, captains, guns and men.

ff 154-9: [Before September 1665]. A list of the Royal navy, showing ships’ names, burden, crew in war and peace, number of guns, length of keel, breadth, depth of hold, draught, date of building, dockyard where built and name of builder.

ff 160-1: [After September 1665]. ‘A list of his Majesty’s ships in harbour and at sea’, showing ships’ names and captains.

ff 162-3: [1666]. A list of the Red, White and Blue Squadrons with ships’ names, captains, men and guns.

ff 164-9: 1 May 1666. ‘A list of his Majesties’ Fleet under the command of his Highness Prince Rupert and his Grace the Duke of Albermarle. Together with a list of the French King’s Armado and the Dutch Fleet’, showing ships’ names, commanders, men and guns.

ff 170-1: 1 April 1680. ‘The present disposall of all his Majesty’s ships in sea-pay’, showing stations, ships’ names, commanders, lieutenants, men and present whereabouts.

ff 172-3: 1688. A list of his Majesty’s fleet under the command of the Earl of Dartmouth, showing ships’ names, commanders, men and guns. HMCB, 187; HL MSS, XI, No 3683.

ff 174-5: [?1685]. An army list, showing a total of 16,640 men. HMCB, 187; HL MSS, XI, No 3683.

ff 176-7: [20 March 1665/6]. The form of consecrating the New Chapel of University College, Oxford. The chapel was consecrated by Walter (Blandford), Bishop of Oxford, on that day. HMCB, 186; HL MSS, XI, No 3707.

ff 178-81: nd. Two plans of Culworth Church, Co Northants, one showing the existing arrangement and allotment of pews and the other, alterations proposed (headed ‘the Archdeacon draught’). HMCB, 187; HL MSS, XI, No 3851.

Braye Ms 4: ‘Extracts from the Journals of Parliament’ 1559 - 1628

A vellum-bound volume of 352 pages entirely in the hand of John Browne, presumably compiled for reference purposes. HMCB, 187.

pp 1-84: 1559-1604, extracts from the Lords Journals. Miscellaneous extracts with summary side notes added by Browne. Some of the extracts for 1559 and 1597-8 are for sittings which are missing from the official Journal but which are to be found in Robert Bowyer’s transcripts in the Petyt Manuscripts. Cf ‘Further Materials from an Unpublished Manuscript of the Lords Journals for Sessions 1559 and 1597 to 1598’, ed JC Sainty (HLRO Memorandum No 33, 1965).

pp 95-122: 1624, cases touching the Election of Knights and Burgesses for the Parliament; collected by Mr Glanville who sat in the chair at the Committee for Privileges in the Parliament holden 21 Jacobi. Printed in John Glanville, Reports of certain cases, determined and adjudged by the Commons in Parliament in the Twenty-first and Twenty-second years of the reign of King Jams the First, ed by J Topham (1775), pp 1-90.

p 123: 1628, ‘the Protestation of the Commons in Parliament’. Articles against innovations in religion and unlawful levying of tonnage and poundage.

pp 124-5: Blank.

pp 126-352: 23 January 1605/6 - 19 May 1607. Some extracts out of Mr Bowyer’s Reports when he was a member of the House of Commons, of the Proceedings of businesses in that house, 3 Jac Anno Domini 1605. Extracts from the three books of Bowyer’s Diaries (Braye MSS 59 and 60, Harleian MS 4945), with verbal differences and side-notes added by Browne. The diaries are printed in DH Willson (ed), The Parliamentary Diary of Robert Bowyer 1606-1607 (University of Minnesota Press, 1931), 3-294.

Braye Ms 5: ‘Privileges of the Lords of Parliament’
A vellum-bound volume of 234 pages in various hands. HMCB, 187.

pp 1-192: The Priviledges or speciall rights belonging to the Baronage of England. A collection, under 36 headings, of notes and precedents concerning such matters as trials of peers, proxies, writs of error, peers’ oaths and hunting rights. In two hands, the second being that of John Browne. This is a version of John Selden’s ‘Baronage’ which was published in 1689. For the official copy presented to HL see HL Main Papers, 15 December 1621 (HMC 3rd Rept, App, 25).

pp 193-234: A Discourse of the Privelidge and Practice of the high Courte of Parliamente in Englande Collected out of the common Lawes of the lande. A version of a short tract on the procedure of both Houses, attributed to Ralph Starkey, the archivist. This tract was published anonymously in 1628, 1640, 1641 and 1680 (C Strateman (ed), The Liverpool Tractate (1937), Li-ii). Side-notes and ‘per Mr Starkey’ in Browne’s hand.

Braye Ms 6: Two Treatises on Parliament

A velum-bound volume of 112 folios plus banks, in one, later-seventeenth century, hand (not Browne). HMCB, 187.

ff 1-59: Judicature in Parliament. A MS copy of a treatise on the judicature of the House of Lords which is often ascribed to John Selden but which was almost certainly composed by Henry Elsyng c 1630. It was probably intended by Elsyng for the fourth chapter of his second book of The Manner of Holding Parliaments in England. Elsyng’s name appears in the last section of this copy. The treatise was first published in 1681 (ER Foster, ‘The Painful Labour of Mr Elsyng’, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, vol 62, part 8 (1972), pp 42-5 and "Henry Elsyng, ‘Judicature in Parliament’", Parliamentary History, vol 9, pt 1 (1990), 158-62.

ff 1-53 (separate numeration): Observations, Rules and Orders Collected out of divers Journals of the House of Commons, entered in the several Reigns of King Edward the Sixth, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth and King James, with a Declaration of the House of Commons concerning their Priviledge, drawn up by a Select Committee. A MS copy of a collection of precedents relating to the procedure of the House of Commons. The last precedent cited in this copy is dated 1607. It is one of 13 versions of the collection which have been collated in WR McKay (ed), Observations, Rules and Orders of the House of Commons (House of Commons Library Document No 17, 1989).

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Braye Ms 7: 19: May 1642. A Declaration or Remonstrance of Both Houses of Parliament.

A MS of 23 folios in a modern binding. From the markings on it this appears to be the copy which was sent to the printer. The Declaration is stated to be in reply to the King’s answers to petitions from both Houses presented to him at Newmarket on 9 March 1641/2 and at York on 26 March 1642. 19 May 1642, ordered to be printed LJ V, 71, 73. Rushworth III, vol I, 691-703, in extenso; An Exact Collection of all Remonstrances, Declarations, Ordinances and other passages between the King’s Majesty and his Parliament. (London, printed for Edward Husbands, et al, 1643. BL Thomason Tracts E 241), 195-215, in extenso. HMCB, no ref. For the examinations which were printed with the Declaration see Braye MS 3, ff 149-59, 203-12. Appended to the Declaration is a copy of the King’s Warrant for printing the Proclamation against the Irish Rebels, 1 January 1641/2. Rushworth, III, vol I, 473, in extenso.

Braye Ms 8: ‘Proceedings against Strafford and Laud, 1641-44’

ff 1-28: 1641. The proceedings against Thomas Earle of Strafford Lord Lieutenant of the Kingdome of Ireland in the English Parliament 1641. MS Version, with verbal differences and two additional verses, of a tract A Briefe and Perfect Relation of the Answeres and Replies of Thomas Earle of Strafford, to the Articles exhibited against him, by the House of Commons, on the 13th of Aprill, An Dom 1641 (London, 1647). The verses printed in Somer’s Tracts, IV, 296-7. HMCB, 118; HL MSS, XI, No 3479(o).

f 1: (Separate numeration) nd [? 30 December 1640]. Methods to be followed at the trial of the Earl of Strafford. Leaf in the hand of Browne, inserted loose in the volume. HL MSS, XI, No 3479(f), in extenso.

ff 29-68: 23 March 1643/4 – 11 October 1644. Originall Papers in Parliament att the Tryall of the Archbishop of Canterbury. An account written by Browne of the Trial of Archbishop Laud. The account is in two columns, with the proceedings in the morning detailing the charges against Laud, in the left-hand column, and the point by point answers of Laud, given in the afternoon sessions, in the right-hand column. Browne probably wrote up the account almost immediately, from rough notes taken in the House. HMCB, 118; HL MSS, XI, xix-xxii, No 3641, in extenso.

Braye Ms 9: ‘Parliamentary Records 25 April 1660 – 12 November 1689’
Two volumes of 374 folios in total, in modern Record Office vellum bindings. Previously one volume bound in half morocco. The volumes contain reports, accounts and orders in various hands, collected by Browne. HMCB, no ref.

ff 1-12: 25 April – 1 May 1660. Draft Journal, HL. The draft journal, in Browne’s hand, is the first to be made after the Restoration. Continued in Braye MS 26. HL MSS, XI, Bo 3684.

f 13: 23, 28 and 29 May 1660. Copies, in Browne’s hand, chiefly of a letter from Charles II and part of a proclamation against Irish rebels.

ff 14-15: 28 December 1660. Minutes of Proceedings, HL. The entries vary slightly from those in the Journal. Cf LJ, XI, 231-2 HL MSS, XI, No 3689.

ff 16-17: 13 May 1661. Address to the King. Draft, with amendments, of Address of Thanks to the King for communicating his intention to marry. LJ, XI, 252, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3691.

ff 18-19: 20 May 1661. Letter from the Parliament of Scotland to the King. Copy of letter, dated Edinburgh 4 April 1661, from the Estate of the Parliament of Scotland to the King. LJ, XI, 260, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3692.

ff 20-21: 10-28 June 1661. Journal Extracts, HL. Extracts from the Journal for 10, 11, , 14, 15, 21 and 28 June relating to the Penal Laws against Roman Catholics. LJ, XI, 276-91. HL MSS, XI, No 3693.

f 22: 19 March 1661/2. Act of Uniformity (Proviso). Proviso, on parchment, concerning royal dispensations from attendance at church. Endorsed, rejected by vote the 19 Martis 1661. LJ, XI, 411. HL MSS, XI, No 3699, in extenso.

f f 23-4: 19 December 1661. HC Resolution concerning the Coldstreamers and others who served under General Monk. Signed Will Goldesburgh, Cler Dom Com. Dated, 18 December 1661. Endorsed as brought up 19 December. CJ, VIII, 338; LJ, XI, 356. HL MSS, Xi, No 3696.

ff 25-6: 2 March 1664/5. Draft, with corrections, of the King’s Speech in oratio recta, with the Lord Privy Seal’s speech on Prorogation. Endorsed, The effect of the King’s Speech. LJ, XI, 676, in oratio obliqua. HL MSS, XI, No 3702.

ff 27-30: 31 October 1665. Speech of Sir Edward Turneer, Speaker of HC at the Proroguing of Parliament at Oxford. 4pp in print, remaining 2 pages in a clerk’s hand. LJ, XI, 699-700, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3705.

f 31: 4 February 1666/7. Trial of Viscount Mordaunt. Draft Resolution concerning the trial with alterations and deletions. LJ, XII, 100, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3714(a).

f 32: 19 November 1666. Lord Butler’s Offensive Speech. Test of apology by Lord Butler to HL, and the Lord Ashley. LJ, XII, 31, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3710(a).

ff 33-4: 19 December 1666. Quarrel between the Duke of Buckingham and the Marquess of Dorchester. Original Minutes of proceedings, with corrections, concerning the above. LJ, XII, 52-3, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3711.

f 35: 5 February 1666/7. Trial of Viscount Mordaunt. Draft message to HC, with deletions, concerning th above. LJ, XII, 103, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3714(b).

ff 36-7: 1 March 1669/70. Pearle’s Relief Bill. Brief of Bill (Cf Draft Bill, HMC, 8th Rept, App, No 256). Read 1a, LJ, XII, 296. HL MSS, XI, No 3725.

ff 38-9: 2 March 1669/70. Viscount Strangford’s Estate Bill. Brief of Bill (enacted as 22 Var II, c6). Read 1a, LJ, XII, 297. HL MSS, XI, No 3726.

ff 40-1: 2 March 1669/70. Lady Routh’s Estate Bill. Statement of case for the Bill P(enacted as 22 Car II, c10). Read 1a, LJ, XII, 297. HL MSS, XI, No 3727.

f 42: 21 March 1669/70. Prevention of malicious burning of houses etc Bill. Brief of Bill (enacted as 22 & 23 Car II, c7). Read 1a, LJ, XII, 319. HL MSS, XI, No 3728.

f 43: 3 June 1670. Committee for Trials for Inheritances. Copy of Order of the Committee for attendance of the Judges. Cf LJ, XII, 347. HL MSS, XI, No 3732.

f 44: 26 January 1670/1. Copy of King’s reprimand of HL for disorder in debates and in the hearing of causes. LJ, XII, 413, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3736.

f 45: 14 February 1670/1. Lord Berkeley’s Claim of Precedency. Original Minutes of claims by Lord Delawar and the Earl of Berkshire to be heard, with Lord Berkeley’s declaration. LJ, XII, 429, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3739.

ff 46-7: 6 March 1670/1. Subsidy and Additional Excise Bills. Speech of Speaker of HC. Original Minute with corrections. LJ, XII, 445, in extenso. Speech of Thanks of the King. Original Minute with corrections. Ibid, 446, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3740.

ff 48-51: 13 March 1670/1. Merchants Ships Bill. Original message from HC agreeing to HL amendments with one exception and HC Reasons for the latter. LJ, XII, 455-6, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3742.

ff 52-3: 7 May 1670. Act for Suppressing Conventicles. Copy of letter from Archbishop Sheldon tot he Bishops of his province concerning the Act. [Cf E Calemy’s Abridgement of Mr Baxter’s History of his life and times, (2nd ed 1713), 328-31, in extenso]. HL MSS, XI, No 3729.

ff 54-5: 6 March 1670/1. Schedule of Private and Public Bills passed both Houses since 24 October 1670 (awaiting Assent). LJ, XII, 445-6. HL MSS, XI, No 3741.

ff 56-7: 24 October 1670 – 21 January 1670/1. Diary sheets with entries (some corrected) for committees, appeals etc, in HL MSS, XI, No 3734.

ff 58-9: 19 April 1671. Additional Impositions Bill. Report of Committee preparing reasons for a conference with HC concerning the above and an answer to the objections against the abatement of the rates upon sugar. LJ, XII, 502-3, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3744.

f 60: 22 April 1671. Original minutes (with corrections) of speeches of the Speaker of HC, the King and the Lord Keeper (in part) at the Prorogation. LJ, XII, 514-6, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3745.

ff 61-2: 8 March 1672/3. Transcript, in Browne’s hand, of the King’s Speech. LJ, XII, 549, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3753.

ff 63-4: 1 March 1672/3. Copy of answer of the King to Address of HC concerning the Declaration of Indulgence. Dated 24 February. CJ, IX, 256; LJ, XII, 540, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3751

ff 65-6: 18 February 1672/3. Minutes of proceedings, in Browne’s hand, at presentation of Speaker of HC. LJ, XII, 533, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3750.

ff 67-8: 5 February 1672/3. Transcript of the King’s speech. LJ, XII, 526-7, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3749.

ff 69-70: 5 February 1672/3. Original minutes (with corrections) of two speeches of the Speaker of HC at his presentation. LJ, XII, 523-4, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3748

ff 71-2: 13 April 1675. Original transcript (with corrections) of the King’s Speech at opening of the Session. LJ, XII, 653, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3756.

f 73: 10 May 1675. Squib v the King (in error). Draft HL. Order for attendance of Edmund Squib. LJ, XII, 685, in extenso. This and subsequent Draft Orders in Braye MS 9 are listed by date only in HL MSS, XI, No 3757.

ff 74-5: 2 June 1675. Crispe v Dalmahoy. Draft HL Order protecting Serjeant Peck, Sir John Churchill, Serjeant Pemberton and Mr Porter from arrest. LJ, XII, 716, in extenso

ff 76-7: 22 November 1685. The Lord Keeper’s Prorogation of Parliament. LJ, XIII, 35, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3761.

ff 78-9: 10 March 1676/7. Original address from HC to the King concerning the increase of the power of the French King and his progress in the Netherlands. LJ, XIII, 68, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3763.

f 80: 15 March 1676/7. Serjeants at Arms. Draft HL Order on the petition of the sixteen Serjeants at Arms attending HL for payment of their allowances. Endorsed with the names of eight serjeeants (?). LJ, XIII, 75, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3764.

f 81: 17 March 1676/7. Black Rod’s Fees. Draft HL Order on the petition of Sir Edward Carteret, Black Rod, concerning his fees. LJ, XIII, 77, in extenso.

f 82: 19 March 1676/7. Bulkley v Bulkley. Draft HL Order (with substantial amendments) referring William Bulkley’s petition to the Committee for Petitions. LJ, XIII, 78, in extenso.

f 83: 20 March 1676/7. Messenger v Taunt (in error). Draft HL Order for the release of John Messenger from prison. LJ, XIII, 79-80

f 84: 20 March 1676/7. HL Resolution (with amendments) that noblewomen and the widows of peers should enjoy the Privilege of Parliament. LJ, XII, 79. HL MSS, XI, no ref.

ff 85-6: 23 March 1676/7. Counutess of Hunington’s Privilegee. Draft HL Order for John Browne and William Walker to be heard by their counsel. LJ, XIII, 84, in extenso.

f 87: 19 March 1676-7. Barrett v Viscount Loftus. Draft HL Order (with subtantial amendments) for Viscount Loftus to put in his answer. LJ, XIII, 78, in extenso.

f 88: 29 March 1677. Address of HC to the King. Copy of Address of support in case of war with the French King over the Spanish Netherlands. CJ, IX, 408, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3766.

f 89: 30 March 1677. Howe v Earl of Rutland. Draft HL Order (with amendments) for Sir Scroope Howe to have notice of the Earl of Rutland’s proposition to submit their dispute to HL. LJ, XIII, 92, in extenso.

ff 90-99: 2 May 1678. Treaty Papers. Translations of treaty papers laid before HL this day. LJ, XIII, 209-10.

ff 90-3: 16 January 1677/8. Translation of offensive treaty between England and the States General. HL MSS, XI, No 3770(a).

ff 94-7: 4 March 1677/8. Translation of perpetual defensive treaty between England and the States General. HL MSS, XI, No 3770(b).

ff 98-9: 3 March 1677/8. Translation of separate articles of above treaty. HL MSS, XI, No 3770(c) v also Braye MS 3, ff 119-24.

f 100: 13 July 1678. Bill concerning the Measurement of Keels and Boats. Report in note form of Conference with HC on above. Cf LJ, XIII, 286. HL MSS, XI, No 3772.

f 101: 14 April 1679. Minutes of Proceedings, HL. Draft minutes of the morning proceedings, in Browne’s and, concerning the Attainder of the Earl of Danby with list of presents in the afternoon. LJ, XIII, 514-5. HL MSS, XI, No 3774.

f 102: 17 May 1679. Earl of Thanet’s Privilege. Draft HL Order (with substantial amendments) for the discharge of John Coniston, William Dargue and John Whorton. LJ, XIII, 577, in extenso.

f 103: 20 May 1679. Duke of Norfolk’s Estate Bill. Draft HL Order (with amendments) referring the Duke’s letter to the Committee on the Bill. LJ, XIII, 581, in extenso.

f 104: 21 May 1679 ? Leather and Skins Bill. Draft HL Order that the Shoemakers and other leather workers be heard, by their counsel, at the Bar of the House. LJ, XIII, 582, in extenso.

f 105-6: 15 April 1680. Minutes of Proceedings, HL. Minutes of proceedings at Prorogtion (Commission not entered). LJ, XIII, 600-1, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3776.

f 107-8: 17 May 1680. Minutes of Proceedings, HL. Rough minutes of proceedings at Prorogation. LJ, XIII, 602-3. HL MSS, XI, No 3777.

ff 109-10: 15 November 1680. Draft Journal, HL. Draft Journal, including part of William Lewis’s information and the beginning of Francisco de Feria’s Information concerning the Popish Plot. LJ, XIII, 670-1, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3778.

f 111: 1 June 1685. Skinner v Davis. Draft HL Order for John Davis to put in an answer to Thomas Skinner’s petition. LJ, XIV, 25, in extenso.

f 112: 1 June 1685. Smith v Berney. Draft HL Order for Richard Berney to put in an answer to Sir James Smith’s petition. LJ, XIV, 25, in extenso.

f 113: 4 June 1685. Draft HL Order (with amendments) giving Mr Keck, counsel for the Earl of Macclesfield, leave to sit at the Bar of the House because of infirmity. LJ, XIV, 31, in extenso.

f 114: 2 June 1685. Mason v Woodroffe et al. Draft HL Order for Sir George Woodroffe and others to put in their answers to the petition of Nicholas Mason. LJ, XIV, 27, in extenso.

ff 115-6: 18 June 1685. Fountaine and Coke v Guavas. Report from the Committee for Petitions in this cause. LJ, XIV, 55, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3785,

f 117: 2 June 1685. Fountaine and Cove v Guavas. Draft HL Order for Andrew Fountaine’s petition to be referred to the Committee for Petitions. LJ, XIV, 27, in extenso.

f 118: 2 June 1685. Barret v St Leger. Draft HL Order (with amendments) for John St Leger to put in his answer to the petition of John Barret. LJ, XIV, 27, in extenso.

f 119: 2 June 1685. Bampfield et al v Popham. Draft HL Order for Alexander Popham to put in his answer to the petition of Warwick Bampfield et al. LJ, XIV, 27, in extenso.

f 120: 20 June 1685. Barret v St Leger. Draft HL Judgment (with substantial amendments) in this cause. LJ, XIV, 51, in extenso.

f 121: 22 June 1685. Reading v More et al. Draft HL Order for Henry More et al to appear to answer for alleged scandalous words uttered against HL. LJ, XIV, 53, in extenso.

f 122: 22 June 1685. Lady Paulet v Lord Paulet. Draft HL Order deferring hearing. LJ, XIV, 53, in extenso.

f 123: 22 June 1685. Draft HL Order (with substantial amendments) to Black Rod to take into custody Gabriell Cox for printing scandalous words concerning the Earl of Danby. LJ, XIV, 53, in extenso.

f 124: 23 June 1685. Fountaine and Cove v Guavas. Draft HL Order (with amendments) for William Guavas to deliver in papers of use to Edward Coke. LJ, XIV, 55-6, in extenso.

f 125: 23 June 1685. Eyre v Eyre. Draft HL Order for further hearing of counsel. LJ, XIV, 55, in extenso.

f 126: 23 June 1685. Warcup v Rowney. Draft HL Judgment in this cause. LJ, XIV, in extenso.

f 127: 25 June 1685. Grantham v Wood. Draft HL Order (with amendments) dismissing Writ of Error brought by Sir Thomas Grantham against judgment in King’s Bench for William Wood. LJ, XIV, 59, in extenso (including judgment).

f 128: 25 June 1685. Eyre v Eyre. Draft HL Order for hearing counsel. LJ, XIV, 58-9, in extenso.

f 129: 25 June 1685. Grenville v Earl of Huntington. Draft HL Order for Earl of Huntington to put in an answer to the petition of Bernard Grenville. LJ, XIV, 58, in extenso.

f 130: 25 June 1685. Winford v Atkins. Draft HL Order for hearing counsel. LJ, XIV, 59, in extenso.

f 131: 25 June 1685. Skinner v Davis. Draft HL Order for cause to be heard. LJ, XIV, 58, in extenso.

f 132: 26 June 1685. Deeping Fen Bill. Draft HL Order (with amendments) for counsel to be heard for and against the Bill. LJ, XIV, 61-2, in extenso.

f 133: 26 June 1685. List of receivers and triers of petitions. Endorsed as read this day. LJ, XIV, 4, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3782.

ff 136-7: 25 May 1685. King’s Answer to address of HL. LJ, XIV, 15, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3783.

f 138: 23 May 1685. Earl of Argyle’s Rebellion. Draft HL Order for an address of support to the King. LJ, XIV, 13, in extenso.

f 139: 26 May 1685. Strickland et al v Coker. Draft HL Order for Robert Coker to put in his answer to the petition of John Strickland et al. LJ, XIV, 16, in extenso.

ff 140-1: 19 May 1685. Copy of message delivered by the Lord Keeper from the King directing HC to choose a Speaker. LJ, XIV, 3-4 in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3781

f 142: 30 May 1685. Earl of Derby’s Bill. Draft HL Order for John Langley to be heard by his counseel. LJ, XIV, 23, in extenso.

f 143: 17 November 1685. Coke v Fountaine (cross appeal). Draft HL Order for Andrew Fountaine and William Guavas to put in their answers to the petition of Edward Coke. LJ, XIV, 85, in extenso.

f 144: 18 November 1685. Williams v Mellish. Draft HL Order for Nicholas Trevanion, William Delawood, Charles Blackhall and Stephen Dearecroft to be summoned to attend as witnesses. LJ, XIV, 87, in extenso.

f 145: 18 November 1685. Eaton et al v Lane (in error). Draft HL Order (with amendment) affirming judgment in King’s Bench for John Lane v George Eaton et al. LJ, XIV, 87-7, in extenso.

f 146: 18 November 1685. Smith et al v Coleby. Draft HL Order dismissing Appeal of Alexander Smith, Anthony Fothergill and Thomas Lambert, against Decree in Court of Chancery for Alexander Coleby. LJ, XIV, 86, in extenso.

f 147: 19 November 1685. Barret v Desmener. Draft HL Order appointing day for hearing counsel of Richard Barret and John Desmener. LJ, XIV, 88, in extenso.

f 148: 20 November 1685. Copy of speech by Lord Chancellor, in the presence of the King, proroguing Parliament. LJ, XIV, 88, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3788.

f 149: 9 November 1685. Winford v Atkins. Draft HL Order 9with substantial amendments) appointing day for hearing counsel of Sir Robert Atkins and Thomas Winford. LJ, XIV, 74, in extenso.

f 151: 9 November 1685. Draft HL Order for giving thanks to the King for his gracious speech. LJ, XIV, 74, in extenso.

f 152: 11 November 1685. Hervey v Hervey. Draft HL Order referring Elizabeth Hervey’s petition, concerning giving of security, to the Committee for Petitions. LJ, XIV, 77, in extenso.

f 153: 13 November 1685. Winford v Atkins. Draft HL Order reversing Decree in Court of Exchequer. LJ, XIV, 80, in extenso.

f 154: 13 November 1685. Williams v Reade. Draft HL Order appointing day for hearing counsel of Walter Williams and Richard Reade. LJ, XIV, 80, in extenso.

f 155: 13 November 1685. Eyre et al v Eyre et al. Draft HL Order for the Lord Chancellor to report the cause to the House. LJ, Xiv, 80, in extenso.

f 156: 13 November 1685. Walmesley v Guardians of Bury School. Draft HL Order (with amendments) for the Guardians of Bury School to put in their answer to the ptition of Elizabeth Walmesley. LJ, XIV, 80, in extenso.

ff 157-8: 17 November 1685. Trial of Earl of Stamford. Draft minutes of proceedings (with corrections) on the trial. LJ, XIV, 85, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3787.

f 150: (Bound in after f 158) 9 November 1685. Williams v Reade. Draft HL Order appointing day for hearing the cause. LJ, XIV, 74, in extenso.

f 159: 26 February 1688/9. Murder of Earl of Essex. Draft HL Orders (with amendments) for commital of John Holland and Benjamin Baker. LJ, XIV, 132, in extenso.

f 160: 2 June 1685. Stickland v Coker. Draft HL Order to Robert Coker to put in an anwer to the peetition of John Stickland. LJ, XIV, 27, in extenso.

f 161: 26 February 1688/9. Williams v Mellish. Draft HL Order (with amendments) for hearing counsel of Elizabeth William and Edward Mellish. LJ, XIV, 133, in extenso.

f 162: 26 February 1688/9. Williams v Reade. Draft HL Order for hearing counsel of Walter Williams and Richard Reade. LJ, XIV, 133, in extenso

f 163: 28 February 1688/9. Draft HL Orders to Black Rod for attachment of James Le Port, papist and Robert Clarke and discharge of Benjamin Baker. LJ, XIV, 134, in extenso.

f 164: 28 February 1688/9. Papists in London and Westminster. Draft HL Order to Sir William Walter to secure all papists in London and Westminster. LJ, XIV, 134, in extenso.

f 165-6: 1 March 1688/9. Resolution of HC to stand by and assist the King. Endorsed as brought up this day. LJ, XIV, 136, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3793.

f 167: 1 March 1688/9. Message from the King (with corrections) that he had secured certain dangerous persons. LJ, XIV, 135, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3791.

f 168: 1 March 1688/9. Draft HL Orders to Black Rod for discharge of James Le Port and examination of Robert Clarke. LJ, XIV, 135, in extenso.

f 169: 2 March 1688/9. Draft HL Orders for examination of Edward Aisley, priest and for absent Lords to be summoned. LJ, XIV, 137, in extenso.

f 170: 5 March 1688/9. Papists in London. Draft HL Orders (with amendments) concerning searches for arms, empowering a committee to search for papists’ papers and for discharge of Edward Ainsley. LH, XIV, 139, in extenso.

ff 171-2: 6 March 1688/9. Trial of Peers Bill. Text of protest by Lord Delaware et al. LJ, Xiv, 140, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3794.

f 173: 6 March 1688/9. Forster v Forster. Draft HL Order for John Forster to put in an answer to the petition of Henry Forster. LJ, XIV, 141, in extenso.

ff 174-5: 7 March 1688/9. Eyre v London, Eyre et al. Draft HL Order for Robert Phillips et al to put in their answer to the petition of Sir John Heath, Thomas Eyre et al. LJ, XIV, 142, in extenso.

f 176: 7 March 1688/9. Earl Rivers v Earls of Derby and Strafford et al. Draft HL Order for the defendants to put in their answer to the petition of Earl Rivers. LJ, XIV, 142, in extenso.

f 177: 7 March 1688/9. Draft HL Orders (with amendments) for attachment of William Downing for printing a paper against Lord Grey of Wark and for the attendance eof Captain Hal at HL. LJ, XIV, 142, in extenso.

ff 178-9: 8 March 1688/9. Text of Answer of the King to Address of both Houses offering to assist him. LJ, XIV, 143, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3795.

f 180: 8 March 1688/9. Rober v Roper. Draft HL Order for Anne Roper to put in an answer to the petition of Edward Roper. LJ, XIV, 144, in extenso.

f 181: 8 March 1688/9. Draft HL Order that ministers in the dioceses of Winchester and Norwich be directed to pray for King William and Queen Mary. LJ, XIV, 144, in extenso.

f 182: 8 March 1688/9. Russell Attainder Bill. Minutes of appointment of Committee to consider Bill for annulling the attainder of William Russell, commonly called Lord Russell. LJ, XIV, 144, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3796.

f 183: 8 March 1688/9. Draft HL Order for printing the Address of both Houses and the King’s Answer. LJ, XIV, 144, in extenso.

f 184: 8 March 1688/9. Draft HL Order for committal and fine of William Downing for printing a paper reflecting on Lord Grey of Wark. LJ, XIV, 144, in extenso.

f 185: 8 March 1688/9. Draft HL Order appointing peers to convey thanks to the King for his Answer to the Address. LJ, XIV, 143-4, in extenso.

f 186: 13 March 1688/9. Williams v Read; Roberts v Mellish. Draft HL Orders in these causes. LJ, XIV, 147, in extenso.

ff 187-8: 15 March 1688/9. Text of Address of both Houses to the King. LJ, XIV, 149, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3798(a).

ff 189-90: 15 March 1688/9. Earl of Macclesfield v Fitton and Jolliffe; Dyer v Mayor of Gravesend et al; Serle v Clarke. Draft HL Orders (with amendments) in these causes. LH, XIV, 149-50, in extenso.

f 191: 16 March 1688/9. Text of King’s Answer to the Address of both Houses. LJ, XIV, 150, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3798(b).

f 192: 18 March 1688/9. Draft HL Orders: for attendance of all Lords who are in town and in the cause Williams v Read. LJ, XIV, 152, in extenso.

f 193: 20 March 1688/9. Roper v Roper. Draft HL Order for hearing counsel of Edward and Anne Roper. LJ, XIV, 154, in extenso.

ff 194-5: 21 March 1688/9. Abrogation of Oaths Bill. Draft of protest against the Bill under four headings, the last of which is re-drafted. LJ, XIV, 55, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3799(b)

f 196: 20 March 1688/9. Draft HL Order for the drawing up of a new clause in the above Bill. LJ, XIV, 154, in extenso.

f 197: 21 March 1688/9. Bill for Reviving Proceedings at Law. Draft HL Orders for attendance of judges. LJ, XIV, 156, in extenso.

f 198: 21 March 1688/9. Draft HL Order recommending the judges attending the House as assistants to the King’s favour. LJ, XIV, 155, in extenso.

f 199: 22 March 1688/9. Dyer v Mayor of Gravesend et al. Draft HL Order dismissing petition of Andrew Dyer. LJ, XIV, 158, in extenso.

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ff 200-1: 21 March 1688.9. Abrogation of Oaths Bill. Clause ‘to take away the necessity of receiving the Sacrament’. Endorsed ‘Rejected upon the Question’. LJ, XIV, 156, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3799(a).

f 202: 23 March 1688/9. Clause offered as a rider to the above Bill (on vellum). LJ, XIV, 158-9, in extenso. HL MSS, XI<, No 3799(c).

f 203: 23 March 1688/9. Draft HL Orders (with amendments) in the cause Roper v Roper and on a letter from the Archbishop of Canterbury. LJ, XIV, 159, in extenso.

f 204: 28 March 1688/9. Draft HL Orders for Robert Phillips to have longer time to answer the petition of Thomas Eyre and for adjournment of the debate on the Bill for uniting their Majesties Protestant Subjects. LJ, XIV, 164, in extenso.

ff 205-6: 1 June 1689. Draft HL Orders (with amendments) for hearing counsel in Bernadiston v Soames (in error); for the Lord Privy Seal to report counsels’ arguments for and against the Bill for taking away the Court of the Marches of Wales, and for judges to attend concerning the judgments against Titus Oates. LJ, XIV, 229-30, in extenso.

ff 207-8: 2 July 1689. Impeachment of a Commoner. Minutes of proceedings concerning whether the Lords are barred from trying a commoner upon an impeachmnt of HC. LJ, XIV, 264, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3812(a).

f 209: 4 June 1689. Draft HL Orders for hearing counsel in Barnfield v Popham; dismissing the appeal of Rowland Eyre v Thomas Eyre and referring the petition of the shoemakers of Northampton to the committee on the bill for Exporting Leather. LJ, XIV, 233, in extenso.

f 210: 6 June 1689. Draft HL Orders: for the Address concerning Titus Oates to be presented to their Majesties; of thanks to the Bishop of St Asaph for his sermon and referring the cordwainers’ petition to the committee on the bill for Exporting Leather. LJ, XIV, 234, in extenso.

f 211: 6 June 1689. HL Address to the King for a pardon for Titus Oates. LJ, XIV, 234, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3810.

f 212: 7 June 1689. Draft HL Orders (with an amendment) for hearing counsel in Lampen v Cloberry; referring the Duke of Grafton’s petition to the Committee for Privileges and dismissing the appeal of Sir Christopher Philipson v John Copley et al. LJ, XIV, 235-6, in extenso.

f 213: 8 June 1689. Draft HL Orders: for witnesses on behalf of the Duke of Grafton to attend the Committee for Privileges; for the shoemakers and tanners to be heard against the Bill for Exporting Leather; for the hearing of counsel in Orme v Sir J Gelle et al and for Hester Noy et al to put in their answer to the petition of Sir John Mill. LJ, XIV, 236-7, in extenso.

f 214: 8 June 1689. Draft HL Orders (with an amendment): in the cause Bernardiston v Soames (in error); for persons to be bound over concerning the Earl of Essex’s death and for the Committee for Privileges to examine precedents for sending for Lords in custody and to draw up an Address to their Majesties to summon Lord Griffin. LJ, XIV, 237-8, in extenso.

f 215: 8 June 1689. Draft HL Orders (with amendments) summoning witnesses to give evidence for an against the Bill for taking away the Court of the Marches of Wales. LJ, XIV, 237, in extenso.

f 216: 10 July 1689. Draft HL Order for depositions of witnesses on behalf of James Percy to be delivered to him. LJ, XIV, 2387, in extenso.

f 217: 25 March 1689. Draft HL Order (with amendments) for William Montague et al to be examined concerning the Earl of Salisbury’s brothers being sent overseas. LJ, XIV, 161, in extenso.

f 218: 25 March 1689. Agutter et al v Collins et al. Draft HL Order that Jane Collins et al put in their answer to the petition of Nathaniell Agutter et al. LJ, XIV, 161, in extenso.

f 219: 25 March 1689. Draft HL Order for the Bill enabling the Lords Commissioners for the Great Seal to execute thee Office of Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper to be recommitted. LJ, XIV, 161, in extenso.

f 220: 26 March 1689. Newcomb v Bonham. Draft HL Order for Thomas and Alice Bonham to put in their answer to the petition of Thomas and Dorothy Newcomb. LJ, XIV, 161-2, in extenso.

f 221: 26 March 1689. Williams v Reade. Draft HL Order dismissing the appeal of Walter and Elizabeth Williams. LJ, XIV, 162, in extenso.

f 222: 26 March 1689. Serle v Clarke et al. Draft HL Order appointing day for hearing counsel of Henry Forster and John Forster. LJ, XIV, 163, in extenso.

f 223: 27 March 1689. Forster v Forster. Draft HL Order appointing day for hearing counsel of Henry Forster and John Forster. LJ, 163, in extenso.

f 224: 27 March 1689. Serle v Clarke et al. Draft HL Order for Dr Barbone to produce certain writings at hearing of above. LJ, XIV, 163, in extenso.

f 225: 28 March 1689. Harvey v Lord Holles. Draft HL Order for Lord Holles to put in his answer to the petition of John and Isabella Harvey. LJ, XIV, 164-5, in extenso.

ff 226-7: 28 March 1689. Removal of Papists from London Bill. Draft HL. Reasons for disagreeing with two HC Provisoes. LJ, XIV, 164, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3800.

f 228: 3 April 1689. Draft HL Orders: in the cause Serle v Clarke; for debating the Bill for Uniting Their Majesties Protestant Subjects. LJ, XIV, 166, in extenso.

f 229: 8 April 1689. Forster v Forster. Draft HL Order appointing later day for hearing counsel. LJ, XIV, 171-2, in extenso.

f 230: 13 April 1689. Draft HL Orders: appointing days for considering an Address to the King and for Judgment in Serle v Clarke et al. LJ, XIV, in extenso.

f 231: 18 April 1689. Countess of Anglesey v Earl of Anglesey Draft Report (with corrections) of the Committee for Privileges, dated 16 April. LJ, XIV, 180, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3802.

ff 232-3: 16 April 1689. Address to the King. Draft Address of HC thanking the King for his care of the Protestant Religion, etc, with HL amendments. Endorsed as brought up on 13 April. CJ, X, 86, in extenso; cf LJ, XIV, 177, in extenso, final text. HL MSS, XI, No 3801.

f 234: 16 April 1689. Draft HL Orders referring the petitions of Richard Brett and Hon Henry Howard to the Committee on the Bill for taking away the Revenue arising by Hearth-money. LJ, XIV, 177-8, in extenso.

ff 235-6: 22 April 1689. Earl of Devonshire (Privilege). Copy of Report of Committee for Privileges, dated 16 April LJ, XIV, 187, in extenso. See also Braye MS 3, f 132.

f 237: 16 April 1689. Draft HL Order to Black Rod to attach John Browne and Francis Tyson for words spoken against Lord Morley. LJ, XIV, 177, in extenso.

f 238: 16 April 1689. Draft HL Orders: in the cause Harvey et al v Lord Holles; referring the Countess of Anglesey’s petition to the Committee for Privileges; in the cause Forster v Forster; for the amendments to the Bill to Abrogate the Oaths to be read a second time and for certain Lords to attend the King concerning the time for presenting an Address of both Houses. LJ, XIV, 177, in extenso.

f 239: 17 April 1689. Draft HL Orders: for hearing counsel for and against the Bill to enable Isaac Savery of Exter to take the name of Searle or Serle; for giving judgment in the cause Serle v Clarke. LJ, XIV, 178, in extenso.

ff 240-1: 18 April 1689. Draft HL Orders: in the causes Stroud v Rodney and Harvey v Lord Holles; for all the Judges to attend HL; in the causes Titus Oats v the King and Titus Oates v the Dukee of York (in error) and Agutter v Collins. LJ, XIV, 180, in extenso.

ff 242-3: 20 April 1689. Bill for Abrogating the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy. Copy of HV Reasons for not agreeing to HL amendments. LJ, XIV, 183-4, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3799(d).

f 244: 20 April 1689. Earl of Macclesfield v Sir Alexander Fitton and Thomas Jolliffe. Draft HL Order (with corrections) for Fitton to put in his answeer. LJ, XIV, 185, in extenso.

f 245: 20 April 1689. Draft HL Orders: for the Address of both Houses and the King’s Answer to be published; for John Browne and Francis Tyson to be discharged from custody; for hearing counsel in Titus Oates v the King (in error) and Titus Oatees v the Duke of York (in error). LJ, XIV, 183-5, in extenso.

f 246: 20 April 1689. Abrogation of the Oaths Bill. Draft HL Order for Managers to draw up Reasons for insisting on Amendments at a Conference with CH. LJ, XIV, 184-5, in extenso.

f 247-8: 22 April 1689. Draft HL Orders (with corrections): in the causes Sir Samuell Bernardiston v the King 9in error), Eyre v Eyre et al and Earl Rivers v Earl of Derby; for the records of the proceedings in King’s Bench against the Earl of Devon to be brought in; for Sir Robert Wright to be brought to the Bar; for Sir Richard Holloway, Mr Pettit, Mr Bradbury and Mr Justice Powell to attend HL; for the Report of the Conference with HC to be adjourned and for all the Lords in London to attend HL. LJ, XIV, 187, in extenso.

f 249: 24 April 1689. Draft HL Orders: for Thomas Russell and all others in custody for the murder of the Earl of Essex to be bailed; in the causes Titus Oates v the King (in error) and Agutter v Collins. LJ, XIV, 191, in extenso.

f 250: 26 April 1689. Draft HL Orders: in the cause of Roberts v Mellish; to bail Thomas Russell a prisoner in the Tower; in the cause Hervey v Lord Holles. LJ, XIV, 193-4, in extenso.

f 251: 27 April 1689. Draft HL Order for Sir Richard Hollaway and Sir Francis Withins to attend HL to give reasons for their judgment in King’s Bench against Titus Oates. LJ, XIV, 194, in extenso.

f 252: 29 April 1689. Draft HL Orders in the causes Sir C Philipson v Copley et al and Earl Rivers v Earl of Derby. LJ, XIV, 195-6, in extenso.

f 253: 30 April 1689. Orme v Sir John Gell et al. Draft HL Order for the defendants to put in their answers. LJ, XIV, 196, in extenso.

f 254: 1 May 1689. Newcomb v Bonham. Draft HL Order dismissing the appeal of Thomas and Alice Newcomb. LJ, XIV, 198, in extenso.

f 255: 1 May 1689. Speaker’s speech. Copy (with corrections) of speech of the Speaker of HC prior to Royal Assent to the Poll Bill for raising money for the reduction of Ireland. LJ, XIV, 198-9, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3804.

f 256: 1 May 1689. Draft HL Orders (with corrections): for William Petyt to search the records in the Tower for proceedings pursuant to the Act for Delays of Judgments in other Courts to be redressed in Parliament (14 Edw III c 5); for the record of proceedings in King’s Bench against the Seven Bishops to be brought in. LJ, XIV, 198, in extenso.

f 257: 1 May 1689. Earl of Macclesfield v Sir Alexander Fitton et al. Draft HL Order adjourning hearing of counsel. LJ, XIV, 199, in extenso.

ff 258-9: 3 May 1689. Eyre v Eyre et al. Draft HL Order setting aside Orders made in the Court of the Duch of Lancaster. LJ, XIV, 201, in extenso.

f 260: 3 May 1689. Draft HL Orders: in the cause Bernadison v Regem (in error); for Sir Robert Wright to be brought to the Bar; for Sir Richard Holloway and Sir Francis Withins and Mr Petyt and Mr Bradbury to attend HL. LJ, XIV, 200-1, in extenso.

ff 261-2: 3 May 1689. Earl of Macclesfield v Fitton and Jollife. Draft HL Order referring the cause to the Court of Chancery for re-hearing. LJ, XIV, 200, in extenso.

f 263: 6 May 1689. Draft HL Orders (with corrections): for Judges to give opinions concerning commmitment of a Peer for a fine; for Sir Robert Wright to be brought to HL; for Sir Richard Holloway and Sir Francis Withins to attend HL and give reasons for their judgment against Titus Oates; in the cause Agutter c Collins. LJ, XIV, 202, in extenso.

f 264: 7 May 1689. Draft HL Orders (with corrections): for an Address of Thanks to the King for declaring war on France; for Sir Richard Holloway and Sir Francis Watkins to attend and give reasons; for the House to consider whether a Peer may be committed for a fine. LJ, XIV, 203, in extenso.

f 265: 7 May 1689. Eyre v Eyre et al. Draft HL Order for the Attorney of the Duchy of Lancaster et al to put in their answers. LJ, XIV, 203, in extenso.

f 266: 8 May 1689. Harvey v Lord Holles. Draft HL Order for giving judgment. LJ, XIV, 205, in extenso.

f 267: 8 May 1689. Sir J Bradshaw v Northend. Draft HL Order for hearing counsel. LJ, XIV, 205, in extenso.

f 268: 10 May 1689. Bernardiston v Regem (in error). Draft HL Order for hearing counsel. LJ XIV, 207, in extenso.

f 269: 10 May 1689. Agutter v Collins. Draft HL Order dismissing appeal. LJ XIV, 207, in extenso.

ff 270-1: 11 May 1689. Bradshaw v Northend. Draft HL Order for hearing counsel. LJ XIV, 208, in extenso.

f 272: 11 May 1689. Lampen v Clobery. Draft HL Order for Oliver Clobery to put in his answer. LJ XIV, 208, in extenso.

f 273: 11 May 1689. Draft HL Orders: for Sir Richard Holloway and Sir Francis Withins to attend and give reasons; for amendments to the Commissioners of the Great Seal Bill to be read; that the Earl of Salisbury be allowed further time for bringing his brothers from overseas. LJ XIV, 208-9, in extenso.

f 274: 15 May 1689. Draft HL Order referring petition of James Percy to the Committee for Privileges. LJ XIV, 211, in extenso.

f 275: 16 May 1689. Draft HL Orders: in the cause Eyre v Eyrel for the House to be in Committee on the Bill of Rights. LJ XIV, 212, in extenso.

f 276: 24 May 1689. Draft HL Orders: for the Bill of Rights to be read 3a; for Titus Oates; three Writs of Error to be considered by the House; for Sir Richard Holloway and Sir Francis Withins to attend; for the House to consider absent Lords who left no proxies; in the cause Bradshaw v Northend; for the Judges to prepare an Act for regulating Non Obstantes. LJ XIV, 218, in extenso.

f 277: 28 May 1689. Earldom of Northumberland (Peerage Claim). Report (dated 24 May) of the Committee for Privileges on the claim of James Percy. LJ XIV, 224, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3807.

f 278: 26 May 1689. Titus Oates (Privilege). Draft Protest (with amendments) against a Vote of HL, on a printed paper entitled ‘The Case of Titus Oates DD’. LJ XIV, 221, in extenso. HL MSS, XI No 3807.

f 279: 27 May 1689. Draft HL Orders: in the cause Pilkington v Bolesworth (in error); for further consideration of a Bill to take away the Court of the Marches of Wales; in the causee Eyre v Eyre. LJ XIV, 223, in extenso.

f 280: 28 May 1689. Earldom of Northumberland. Draft HL Order for hearing the Duke of Somerset’s counsel against James Percy’s imposture. LJ XIV, 224, in extenso.

ff 281-6: 2 July 1689. Committee to examine Precedents of Impeachments. Report of the Committee of Precedents found in the Journals and records in the Tower. LJ XIV, 262-4, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3812(b).

f 287: 19 October 1689. Minute that the Lords have been invited to dine in the City. Draft HL Orders: for the House to be called; for an Address of Thanks to be presented to the King. LJ XIV, 320-1, in extenso.

f 288: 21 October 1689. Tunstall v Smith (in error). Draft HL Order for hearing counsel. LJ XIV, 321, in extenso.

f 289: 23 October 1689. King’s Speech. Copy (with corrections) of the King’s Speech. LJ XIV, 322, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3813.

f 290: 23 October 1689. Notes of Proceedings, HL. LJ XIV, 322-3.

ff 291-2: 23 October 1689. Draft HL Orders: for the House to be called; in the causes Tunstall v Smith (in error), Mercer v Mercer and Coke v Cobb et al. LJ XIV, 323, in extenso.

ff 293-4: 24 October 1689. Draft HL Orders (with corrections): in the causes Dodd v Dawson, Beaple v Gay and Malden et al v Belbin. LJ XIV, 324, in extenso.

ff 295-6: 24 October 1689. Tunstall v Smith (in error). Draft HL Order affirming judgment in King’s Bench. LJ XIV, 324, in extenso.

ff 297-8: 25 October 1689. Draft HL Orders to the High Steward et al. of Westminster to prevent stoppages in the streets during the sitting of Parliament and to keep the streets clear on 29 October, when the Lords dine in the City. LJ XIV, 325, in extenso.

f 299: 26 October 1689. Draft HL Order for the bishops to appoint one of the Bench to preach before HL on 5 November. LJ XIV, 326, in extenso.

ff 300-1: 26 October 1689. Earl of Peterborough and Earl of Salisbury P(Impeachment). (a) Draft HL Orders (with corrections): for the Earl of Peterborough to be brought to the Bar, to be committed to the Tower and for his friends to have access; for the Earl of Salisbury to be brought to the Bar. LJ XIV, 326, in extenso.

ff 302-3: (b) Minutes of proceedings on above. Ibid loc cit HL MSS, XI, No 3814.

f 304: 28 October 1689. Draft HL Order (with corrections) for the Speaker to write to absent Lords. LJ XIV, 328, in extenso.

ff 305-6: 28 October 1689. Copy of Speaker’s letter. Ibid loc cit.

ff 307-8: 28 October 1689. Draft HL Orders: in the cause Presgrave v Sherman; for the Earl of Salisbury to be remanded to the Tower and for the Earls of Salisbury and Peterborough to have the Liberty of the Tower; for John Bayly, drayman to be attached for contempt; for William Greene, brewer to attend HL. LJ XIV, 327, in extenso.

f 309: 30 October 1689. Draft HL Order for John Bayly to be discharged from custody. LJ XIV, 329, in extenso.

ff 310-11: 2 November 1689. Draft HL Orders (with corrections): in the causes Presgrave v Sherman, Beaple v Gay and Morin v Wyborne; for Mr Justice Dolben to attend Committee on Bill against Clandestine Marriages; to revive the Committee to consider the Earl of Essex’s death. LJ XIV, 331, in extenso.

ff 312: 6 November 1689. Draft HL Order (with corrections) for an Address to the King for leave for the Committee of Inspections to peruse the Council Books of Charles II and James II concerning the prosecution of Lord Russell et al. LJ XIV, 332, in extenso.

ff 313-4: 6 November 1689. Draft HL Orders (with corrections): in the cause Presgrave v Sherman: for leave to peruse the Council Books (as above); of thanks to the Bishop of Salisbury for his sermon; to adjourn consideration of Lord Griffin’s committal for treason; in the causes Beaple v Gay and Belbin v Malden et al. LJ XIV, 332-3, in extenso.

ff 315-6: 7 November 1689. Draft HL Orders: in the cause Derham and Edwards v Duvall; for the Clerk of the Parliaments to bring in the Journal for Lord Delamer’s case; for the Committee for Privileges to enquire into irregularities in the Courts in Westminster Hall. LJ XIV, 333-4, in extenso.

f 317: 7 November 1689. Draft HL Order for William Petyt to attend the Committee enquiring into irregularities in the Courts. LJ XIV, 334, in extenso.

f 318: 7 November 1689. Draft HL Order for an Address to the King to know the grounds for Lord Griffin’s commitment. LJ XIV, 333, in extenso.

ff 319-20: 8 November 1689. Draft HL Orders: in the causes Long v Nelthrop, Countess Dowager of Winchilsea v Earl of Winchilsea et al (Privilege), Belbin v Malden et al; message from the King with papers concerning Lord Griffin’s commitment; leave to the Duke of Bolton to bring in Mutiny Bill. LJ XIV, 334-5, in extenso.

f 321: 9 November`689. Draft HL Order s: for Lord Griffin to be brought to the Bar; for Lord Preston to attend concerning his claim of privilege; for consideration of the case of Lord Delamer. LJ XIV, 335-6, in extenso.

f 322: 11 November 1689. Minutes (with corrections) of the examination of Lord Griffin. LJ XIV, 336, in extenso.

f 323: 11 November 1689. Minutes (with corrections) of the examination of Lord Griffin. LJ XIV, 336, in extenso.

f 324: 11 November 1689. Draft HL Order s: for Thomas Hall to attend HL; for Black Rod to take Lord Preston into custody; for all the Judges to attend HL concerning Lord Preston’s patent and Lord Griffin’s case; for Lord Griffin to be remanded to the Tower and brought to the Bar the following day. LJ XIV, 337, in extenso.

ff 325-6: 12 November 1689. Minutes of proceedings concerning Lord Preston’s patent. LJ XIV, 338, in extenso.

f 327: 13 May 1643. The Scotch Commissioners. Copy of Paper (dated 27 January 1643) from the Scotch Commissioners about their army in Ireland. LJ VI, 45, in extenso. HL MNSS, XI, No 3627.

ff 328-9: 3 May 1644. Earl of Leven’s Army. Copy of letter from both Houses to Earl of Leven concerning the supply and actions of his army. LJ, VI, 538, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3643.

ff 330-4: Blank.

ff 335-6: 28 January 1670/1. Maiming and Wounding Nill. HL reasons for agreeing and disagreeing with HC over various HC amendments. Contains some variations from the Journal, cf, LJ, XII, 416. HL MSS, XI, No 3738.

ff 337-8: 1604-14. Receivers and Triers of Petitions

f 337: [19 March] 1603/4. List of receivers and triers of petitions as entered in the Journal, but with subsequent amendments in another hand. Cf LJ, II, 263. HL MSS, XI, No 3268.

f 338: [5 April] 1614. List of receivers and triers of petitions, amended to correspond with the list entered in the Journal. Cf LH, II, 686-7 HL MSS, XI, No 3326.

ff 339-40: [3-10 April 1645]. Surrender of Office of the Lord Admiral. Copy of letter of surrender (by the Earl of Warwick) of the Office of Lord Admiral under an Ordinance of April 1645 whereby members of both Houses were to stand discharged from all military and civil office after 40 days. LJ VII, 303, 311-13. HL MSS, XI, No 3646.

f 341: 23 December 1641. HC Resolution for the payment of 2,500 troops in Scotland from 8 December to the end of the treaty. CI, II, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3637(a).

f 342: 8 March 1672/3. Address against the Increase of Popery. Rough Transcript, in Browne’s hand, of the Lord Chancellor’s report of the King’s Answer and of his cancelling of the Declaration of Indulgence. LJ, XII, 538, in extenso. HL MSS, No 3637(b).

ff 343-8: [8 May 1661]. Lord Chancellor’s Speech. Copy of part of speech of Edward, Earl of Clarendon, Lord Chancellor. LJ, XI, 243-4, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3690.

ff 349-50: 8 May 1661. Receivers and Triers of Petitions. List, in Browne’s hand, of the receivers and triers of petitions. LJ, XI, 244-5, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3672.

ff 351-2: 5 November 1640. King’s Speech. Copy of the King’s Speech to HL. Parliamentary History, II, 638-9, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3478.

ff 353-4: 19 November 1666. Lord Butler (Offensive Speech).
(a) Draft HL Order (with corrections) concerning reprimand of Lord Butler for offensive expressions towards the Duke of Buckingham.
(b) Text of acknowledgement by Lord Butler to HL and to the Duke of Buckingham. LJ, XII, 31, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3710.

f 355: 10 March 1672/3. Draft HL Order for the Lord chancellor’s speech about cancelling the Declaration of Indulgence, to be entered in the Journal. LJ, XII, 551, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3637(b).

ff 356-7: 12 April 1677. Copy of HC Resolutions on the King’s Message. CJ, IX, 419, in extenso HL MSS, XI, No 3768.

ff 358-9: 28 February 1642/3. Copy, in Browne’s hand, of the Propositions of both Houses for a cessation of armed struggle. LJ, V, 625-6, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3637(c).

ff 360-3: [? 1641] ‘the Irish Commissioners Answer touching the disbanding of the Irish Army’ (2 copies). HL MSS, XI, No 3637(d).

ff 364-5: 29 September 1645. Account of Action near Chester. Copy of ‘Further Account of the Action’, ie General Poyntz’s victory over the King’s forces near Chester on 25 September. LJ, VII, 608-9, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3650.

ff 366-7: 23 July 1645. Declaration against a Blasphemous Book. Text of declaration against Archer’s Comfort for Believers. Signed Henry Robrough, scribe, Adoniram Byfield, scribe. Subscribed Jo Browne, Cleric’ Parliamentor. LJ, VII, 505-6, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3649.

ff 368-9: 9 June 1641. Declaration of Col Goring. Copy of Col Goring’s declaration concerning he ‘Army Plot’. 9 June 1641, debated in HC, CJ, II, 172. Nalson, Impartial Collection, II, 272-5, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3520.

ff 370-1: [17 January 1529/30]. Marriage of Gervase Clifton and Marye Nevill (household account). Transcript of account of costs of clothing and food at celebration of marriage of Gervase Clifton and Marye Nevill this day. Enclosed in letter from Cavendish Nevile to Revd Dr Standfast, rector of Clifton, nr Nottingham. Dated 17 May 1731, LJ, no ref F Peck, Desiderata Curiosa (1779), 248-9, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3162.

f 372: [11 November 1685]. Bampfield et al v Popham. Printed case of John Winter, Warwick Bampfield and Sir John St Barbe, bart, on their appeal to HL from a decree in Chancery. LJ, Xiv, 78. Cf records of this cause in HMC, 11th Rept, App, pt ii, 308-9. HL MSS, XI, No 3786.

f 373: [post 17 June 1685]. Bampfield v Vaughan. Printed case of Warwick Bampfield on his appeal to HL from a decree in Chancery. LJ, XIV, 46. Cf records of this cause in HMC, 9th Rept, pt ii, App 123. HL MSS, XI, No 3784.

f 374: 22 September 1642. Distressed Miners (Petition). Printed petition of poor distressed miners of Co Derby and King’s Answer. Published at York by Robert Barker. LJ, V, 368-9, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3593.

Braye Ms 10: ‘Parliamentary Records 19 November 1606 – 31 August 1686’

ff 1-2: 4 February – 21 June [1672/3]. Diary sheets with entries for Bills appeals etc, in HL. HL MSS, XI, No 3747.

ff 3-8: 19 November 1606. King’s Answer concerning Grievances. MS copy of ‘A Memoriall of his Majesties resolutions, concerning the Greevances presented by the Lower House.’ CJ, I, 316-8, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No ref.

f 9: Blank

ff 10-17: 17 June 1635. Lord Keeper’s Speech. MS copy of ‘Thomas, Lord Coventry’s speech or delivery of his Charge as he received it from his Majesty to all the Judges of England, Judges of Assize in the Star Chamber’. HL MSS, XI, No 3446.

ff 36-47: 22 March 1639/40. The Scots’ Remonstrance. Copy in Browne’s hand of ‘The Remonstrance of the Nobles, Barons, Burgesses, Ministers and Commons within the Kingdome of Scotland, vindicating them and their proceedings from the Crimes wherewith they are charged by the late Proclamation in England, February 27 1638. Revised according to the Ordinance of the Generall Assemblie by Mr Archibald Johnston Clerke thereto. HL MSS, XI, No 3465.

ff 48-55: 5 November 1640. Proceedings in Hl. LJ, IV, 83. HL MSS, XI, No 3476(b).

ff 48 r: First speech of William Lenthall, Speaker of HC Rushworth, III, vol 1, 17, in extenso (with verbal differences).

ff 48v-49: First speech (with corrections) of Lord Keeper, signifying approval. Rushworth, not entered.

ff 50-5: Second speech (with corrections) of Lord Keeper. Rushworth, not entered. Cf HL MSS, XI, No 3477. in extenso (printed from imperfect copy, Braye MS 2, ff 79-80)..

ff 53-5; King’s speech. Rushworth, III, vol 1, 17, in extenso (with verbal differences).

ff 56-9: Blank

ff 60-8: 3 November 1640. Proceedings in HL. LJ, IV, 82. HL MSS, XI, No 3476(a).

ff 60-1: King’s speech. Rushworth, III, vol I, 11-12, in extenso (with verbal differences).

ff 61-8: Lord Keeper’s speech. Rushworth, III, vol 1, 12-16, in extenso (with verbal differences).

ff 69-82: Blank

ff 73-5: 19 July 1647. Langham et al v Limbrey et al. Notes, in Browne’s hand, of arguments of judges in the cause, delivered 19 and 20 July. LJ, IX, 338, 340. HL MSS, XI, No 3660.

ff 76-9: 5 November 1640. ‘Mr Speaker’s Speeches’. Fair copy of the Speaker’s first and second speeches on this day. LJ, IV, 83. Rushworth, III, vol I, 17-19, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3476(b).

ff 80-102: 16 December 1640. ‘Against the Leiftennant of Ireland’. Official transcript of the charges of the Scotch Commissioners against the Earl of Strafford. Nalson, I, 686-8, in extenso. Cf original in Braye MS 2, ff 96-7.

ff 103-16; 29 November 1641-30 July 1642. Diary sheets with entries (corrected) for committees, Bills, appeals etc, in HL. HL MSS, XI, No 3550.

ff 118-46: [5 July 1645]. Declaration of both Houses to the States General. Draft (with amendments) of the Declaration of both Houses to the States General concerning their last embassy to England. Signed, P Wharton, Wm Lenthall. 5 July, ordered to be printed. CJ, IV, 195-6. Rushworth, IV, vol I, 182-92, in extenso. HL MSS, XI, No 3648 (where dated 5 June).

ff 147-86: [post January 1649]. MS Treatise. The sections of this treatise are: (1) ‘Concerning the Liberty of the Person of every Freeman of England’ (includes reference to the ‘Agreement of the People tendered to the Parliament by the Army in January 1648’); (2) ‘Concerning Billeting of Souldiers’; (3) lacks heading but includes extracts from 17 Edward II on, dealing with privileges of Parliament etc; (4) ‘concerning Propriety of Goods’; (5) ‘concerning Imployment in Forraigne Servise’; ‘Of of Soveraigne Power of the Parliament of England and the Privileges thereof’. The treatise is in Browne’s hand. It consists almost entirely of quotations from Rolls of Parliament, Journals of both Houses and from legal decisions and text books. HL MSS, XI, No 3611 (where dated ? 1642-3).

ff 187-212: 7-8 May 1668. Dispute with HC over Skinner v East India Company.

ff 187-95: 7 May. Reports of Earl of Essex and Earl of Anglesey on precedents. Precedents approved as fit to be offered to HC at Conference. LJ, XII, 246, report deleted. HMC, 8th Rept. App, 169-70 (precedents not printed in full).

ff 195-8: 7 May. Minutes of proceedings (with corrections). LJ deleted. HMC, 8th Rept. App, 171-3, in extenso.

ff 199-200; 8 May. Introduction to Conference, agreed by HL. LJ, deleted. HMC, 8th Rept. App,

ff 201-12: 8 May. Conference with HC. Speeches of Lord Anglesey and Lord Lucas. HL MSS, XI, No 3720.

ff 213-5: 15 November 1680. Journal, HL.

ff 213-4: Two discarded leaves of Journal, in Browne’s hand, of proceedings including examination (deleted) of Earl of Peterborough concerning the Popish Plot.

f 215: Part of information laid by Francisco de Feria concerning the above. LJ, XIII, 669-71, in extenso (omitting examination). HL MSS, XI, No 3779.

ff 216-33: 4 August - 6 September 1686. Proceedings against the Bishop of London.

ff 216-23: MS account of proceedings against the Bishop of London in the Court of High Commission, with speeches of those present at the Council Chamber, Whitehall for 4, 9, 23, 31 August, 6 September. TB Howell, A Complete Collection of State Trials, XI, 1158-66, in extenso (with some differences in detail).

ff 224-33: MS account [1st leaf missing] of proceedings on 3, 9, 16, 31 August [incomplete]. the two versions are in the same hand but differ considerably in content and expression. HL MSS, XI, No 3789.

ff 234-7: [?1686]. Incomplete memorial to the Duke of [Albermarle] written to dissuade him from voyaging to Jamaica. Cf Braye MS 52, pp 258-60.

ff 238-9: [1668]. Skinner v East India Company. List of precedents cited by Lord Anglesey. Cf ff 203-4 above.

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Braye Ms 11: Draft Journal of the House of Lords,
12 March 1620/1 - 27 March 1621

Braye Ms 12: Draft Journal of the House of Lords, 17 April - 18 May 1621
A volume of 144 folios, plus blanks, in contemporary vellum covers. Inscribed on the front cover ‘The firste draught out of the second scrybled booke of the parlement de anno 18 regni regis Jacobi per HE’. the volume is in the hand of Henry Elsynge, with many deletions and insertions. HMCB, 125; HL MSS, XI, No 3343(2).

Braye Ms 13: Draft Journal of the House of Lords,

19 May 1624 - 15 March 1624/5
Folios inscribed on the front cover "The thirde parte of the first draughte of the Journall booke de anno 21 Jacobi". The volume is in the hand of Henry Elsynge, with many deletions and insertions. HMCB, 125; HL MSS, XI, No 3343(3).

Braye Ms 14: Draft Journal of the House of Lords,

17 March 1627/8 - 30 April 1628
Folios inscribed on the front cover "Firste Parte. Lune 17 Marcii 1627. Anno Regni Regis Caroli 3. the firste draught". The volume is in the hand of Henry Elsynge, with many deletions and insertions. The marginalia and any substantial variants from the wording of the manuscript Journal are printed in Lords Proceedings 1628 (Proceedings in Parliament 1628, op cit, vol v). HMCB, 125; HL MSS, XI, No 3343(4).

Braye Ms 15: Draft Journal of the House of Lords, 1 May - 26 June 1628
Folios inscribed on the front cover "The seconde parte of the first draught of the Journall of parlement". 17 Marcii anno 3 Caroli Regis. Begynningee with 1 May 1628’. The volume is in the hand of Henry Elsynge with many deletions and insertions. The marginalia and any substantial variants from the wording of the manuscript Journal are printed in Lords Proceedings 1628, op cit. HMCB, 125; HL MSS, XI, No 3343(5).

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Braye Ms 16: Scribbled Book of Proceedings in the House of Lords,

13 April - 5 May 1640
A volume of 47 folios, in contemporary vellum covers, in the hand of John Browne. Browne included notes of speeches and records divisions in the House. There are many deletions and insertions. The Draft Journal for this period, omitting speeches and votes, is HLRO Manuscript Minutes, vol 6. The Scribbled Book is printed in E S Cope and W H Coates (eds), Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (Camden Fourth Series, vol 19, 1977), 53-95, in extenso. HMCB, 125; HL MSS, XI, No 3343(6) where it is described as a ‘Draft Journal’. Cf Braye MSS 17-20, 22-25, 61, 90, 103.

Braye Ms 17: Scribbled Book of Proceedings in the House of Lords,

3 November 1640 - 9 February 1640/1
A volume of 137 folios, in contemporary vellum covers. Notes taken by Browne while the House was sitting. There are many deletions and insertions. Speeches and divisions are usually omitted. An assistant clerk also kept notes (Manuscript Minutes, Nos 7-12). The ‘Draft Journals’ for the Long Parliament are the Original Journals, vols 15-47 (:compiled from the two series of notes) of which a fair copy does not appear to have been made (E R Foster, "The Journal of the House of Lords for the Long Parliament", in B C Malament (ed), After the Reformation (Manchester University Press, 1980), 131-2). HMCB, 125; HL MSS, XI, No 3343(7).

Braye Ms 18: Scribbled Book of Proceedings in the House of Lords, 9 April - 14 June 1641
A volume of 140 folios, in contemporary vellum covers. Notes taken by Browne, form as for Braye MS 17. HMCB, 125; HL MSS, XI, No 3343(8).

Braye Ms 19: Scribbled Book of Proceedings in the House of Lords,

15 - 29 June 1641
A volume of 35 folios, in contemporary vellum covers. Notes taken by Browne, form as for Braye MS 17. HMCB, 125; HL MSS, XI, No 3343(9)..

Braye Ms 20: Scribbled Book of Proceedings in the House of Lords,

30 June - 23 October 1641
A volume of 187 folios, in contemporary vellum covers. Notes taken by Browne, form as for Braye MS 17. HMCB, 125; HL MSS, XI, No 3343(10).

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Braye Ms 21: Extracts from the House of Lords Journal,

25 June - 7 August 1641
A volume of 23 numbered folios, plus blanks, in contemporary vellum covers. The extracts, in Browne’s hand, concern such matters as peers’ privileges, trials of peers, conferences with HC, and negotiations with the Scottish Commissioners. HL MSS, XI, No 3343(11), where it is described as a ‘Draft Journal’.

Braye Ms 22 A-C: Scribbled Book of Proceedings in the House of Lords,

25 October 1641 – 14 January 1641/2
Photographic copies (in three parts) of a volume of 370 pages. Notes taken by Browne, with some entries in another hand, form as for Braye MS 17. For the original (acquired later) see Braye MS 90. HMCB, 125.

Braye Ms 23 A-C: Scribbled Book of Proceedings in the House of Lords,

15 January – 2 March 1641/2
Photographic copies (in three parts) of a volume of 333 pages. Notes taken by Browne, with some entries in another hand, form as for Braye MS 17. For the original (acquired later) see Braye MS 103. HMCB, 125.

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Braye Ms 24: Scribbled Book of Proceedings in the House of Lords,

4 March 1641/2 –1 April 1642

A volume of 140 folios, in contemporary vellum covers. Notes taken by Browne, with some entries in another hand, form as for Braye MS 17. HMCB, 125; HL MSS, XI, No 3343(12).

Braye Ms 25: Scribbled Book of Proceedings in the House of Lords,

2 – 28 April 1642
A volume of 140 folios, in contemporary vellum covers. Notes taken by Browne, with some entries in another hand, form as for Braye MS 17. HMCB, 125; HL MSS, XI, No 3343(13).

Braye Ms 26: Draft Journal of the House of Lords, 2 –4 May 1660
A MS, of 12 folios, in a modern Record Office binding. The Draft Journal is in Browne’s hand, with deletions and insertions and includes lists of "presents" and some documents not fully entered in the Journal. For the Draft Journal 25 April – 1 May 1660 see Braye MS 9, folios 1-12. HL MSS, XI, No 3343(14).

Braye Ms 27: Draft Journal of the House of Lords,

8 May 1661 – 20 February 1661/2
A volume of 220 folios, in five parts (inscribed ‘Liber A-Liber E’) bound together in a modern vellum binding. The Draft Journal is in Browne’s hand, form as for Braye MS 26, except that documents are not entered more fully than in the Journal. The assistant clerk’s minutes also survive from 1661 onwards (HLRO Manuscript Minutes, vol 13 onwards). HMCB, 125; HL MSS, XI, No 3343(15).

Braye Ms 28: Draft Journal of the House of Lords, 3 April – 19 May 1662b
A volume of 70 folios, plus blanks, in two parts (inscribed ‘Liber G and Liber H’) bound together in a modern vellum binding. The Draft Journal is in Browne’s hand, form as for Bray MS 27. Signed by a Committee of Peers, on folio 69. HMCB, 125 HL MSS, XI, No 3343(16).

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Braye Ms 29: Draft Journal of the House of Lords,

8 February 1662/3 – 11 May 1663
A volume of 49 folios, plus blanks (inscribed ‘Liber A Sessio Secunda’) in a modern vellum binding. The Draft Journal is ins Browne’s hand, form as for Braye MS 27. HMCB, 125 HL MSS, XI, No 3343(17).

Braye Ms 30: Draft Journal of the House of Lords, 8 – 27 July 1663
A volume of 37 folios, plus blanks, in two parts (inscribed ‘Sessio Secunda. Liber C and Liber D’), bound together in a modern vellum binding. The Draft Journal is in Browne’s hand, form as for Braye MS 27. HMCB, 125 HL MSS, XI, No 3343(18).

Braye Ms 31: Draft Journal of the House of Lords,

16 March 1663/4 – 13 May 1664
A volume of 47 folios, plus blanks (inscribed ‘Tertio Sessio Parliamenti 1663. Liber A’) in a modern vellum binding. The Draft Journal is almost entirely in Browne’s hand, form as for Braye MS 27. HMCB, 125 HL MSS, XI, No 3343(19).

Braye Ms 32: Draft Journal of the House of Lords,

18 September 1666 – 8 February 1666/7
A volume of 149 folios, in three parts (inscribed ‘Sessio Sexta Parliamenti. Anno Regis Caroli Secundi 18°..The second and third parts inscribed ‘Liber Secundus’) bound together in a modern vellum binding. The Draft Journal is in Browne’s hand, form as for Braye MS 27. HMCB, 125 HL MSS, XI, No 3343(20).

Braye Ms 33: Draft Journal of the House of Lords,

19 October – 11 December 1669
A volume of 48 folios, plus blanks (inscribed ‘Sessio Octava Parliamenti … Liber Primus’) in a modern vellum binding. The Draft Journal is in Browne’s hand, form as for Braye MS 26. HMCB, 125 HL MSS, XI, No 3343(21).

Braye Ms 34: Draft Journal of the House of Lords,

15 February 1669/70 – 11 April 1670
A volume of 76 folios, in three parts (first part inscribed ‘Sessio nona Parliamenti. Liber Primus’) bound together in a modern vellum binding. The Draft Journal is in Browne’s hand, form as for Braye MS 27/ HMCB, 125 HL MSS, XI, No 3343(22).

Braye Ms 35: Draft Journal of the House of Lords,

24 October 1670 – 7 April 1671
A volume of 145 folios, in three parts, bound together in a modern vellum binding. The Draft Journal is in Browne’s hand, form as for Braye MS 27. HMCB, 125 HL MSS, XI, No 3343(23).

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Braye Ms 36: Draft Journal of the House of Lords,

24 March 1672/3 – 26 April 1675
A volume of 95 folios, in two parts, bound together in a modern vellum binding. The Draft Journal is in Browne’s hand, form as for Braye MS 27. HMCB, 125 HL MSS, XI, No 3343(24).

Braye Ms 37: Draft Journal of the House of Lords,

13 October – 22 November 1675
A volume of 32 folios, plus blanks, in a modern vellum binding. The Draft Journal is in Browne’s hand, form as for Braye MS 27. HMCB, 125 HL MSS, XI, No 3343(25).

Braye Ms 38: Draft Journal of the House of Lords,

15 January – 6 March 1677/8
A volume of 37 folios, plus blanks, in a modern vellum binding. The Draft Journal is in Browne’s hand, form as for Braye MS 27. HMCB, 125 HL MSS, XI, No 3343(26).

Braye Ms 39: Draft Journal of the House of Lords,

21 October – 16 November 1678
A volume of 44 folios, plus blanks, in a modern vellum binding. The Draft Journal is in Browne’s hand. form as for Braye MS 27. HMCB, 125 HL MSS, XI, No 3343(27).

Braye Ms 40: Draft Journal of the House of Lords,

19 December 1678 – 9 April 1679
A volume of 94 folios, in two parts, bound together in a modern vellum binding. The Draft Journal is in Browne’s hand, form as for Braye MS 27. HMCB, 125 HL MSS, XI, No 3343(28).

Braye Ms 41: Draft Journal of the House of Lords,

20 November 1675 – 3 December 1677
A volume of 81 folios, in a modern vellum binding. The Draft Journal between 16 February 1676/7 and 16 April 1677 is in a hand other than that of Browne, but with side notes by Browne. Lists of "presents" are omitted until 16 July 1677 and some other business is also omitted until that date. HL MSS, XI, No 3343(29).

Braye Ms 42: Draft Journal of the House of Lords,

29 June – 20 November 1685
A volume of 27 folios, plus blanks, (inscribed ‘Minute Book begun the 29 Junii 1685’) in a modern vellum binding. The Draft Journal is in Browne’s hand, form as for Braye MS 27. HMCB, 125 HL MSS, XI, No 3343(30).

Braye Ms 43: Draft Journal of the House of Lords,

22 January – 4 March 1688/9
A volume of 48 folios, (inscribed ‘The Minute of the Convention’) in a modern vellum binding. The Draft Journal is in Browne’s hand, form as for Braye MS 27. HMCB, 125 HL MSS, XI, No 3343(31).

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Braye Ms 44: Draft Journal of the House of Lords,

24 April 1689 – 26 January 1689/90
A volume of 215 folios, in five parts (each inscribed "Minute Booke"), bound together in a modern vellum binding. The Draft Journal is almost entirely in Browne’s hand, form as for Braye MS 27. HMCB, 125 HL MSS, XI, No 3343(32).

Braye Ms 45: ‘Parliamentary Manuscripts, 1642-1649’
Photographic copies of documents in a volume sold as lot 109 at Messrs Christie on 23 June 1954. The originals are now preserved in Yale University Library (Osborn MSS). HMCB, no ref.

/1: 10 June 1642. Signed Deposition of James Halsall concerning a Proclamation in London against the Militia. LJ, V, 124, in extenso, in oratio obliqua.

/2: 15 March 1642/3. HC Orders concerning Article 7 of the proposed Treaty with the King and a Declaration in answer to a Royal Proclamation against taxes levied by Orders or Ordinances. Signed, H Elsynge, Cler Pal D Com CJ, III, 2, in extenso.

/3: 12 April 1642. Draft letter of both Houses to the sheriff of Yorkshire in answer to a petition from the county. LJ, IV, 713-4, in extenso.

/4: 11 April 1642. Petition of the County of Yorkshire to both Houses. LJ, IV, 711, in extenso.

/5: (a) 11 April 1642. Petition of the County of Yorkshire to the King. Read this day. LJ, IV, 710, in extenso.
(b) 11 April 1642. Copy of the King’s answer to the above, dated 7 April. Signed, Edw Nicholas. LJ, IV, 711, in extenso.

/6: 13 June 1642. Copy of the letter from Charles I to William Booth of Killingline, Lincs, requiring his attendance. Dated, York, 24 May. Read this day. LJ, V, 128, in extenso.

/7: 28 May 1642. Order of both Houses to prevent arms going to York. Signed, Jo Browne, Cleric, Parliamentor. LJ, V, 89, in extenso.

/8: 28 May 1642. Order of both Houses against the levying of troops without consent of Parliament. Signed, Jo Browne, Cleric, Parliamentor. L:J, V, 90, in extenso.

/9: 13 June 1642. Letter from William Pelham to Lord Willoughby refusing to deliver up ammunition in his custody. Dated, Brocklesby, 4 June. Read this day. LJ, V, 128, in extenso.

/10: 13 June 1642. Letter from the Lord Keeper to Lord Willoughby concerning the Ordinance for the Militia. Signed, Edward Littleton, York, 7 June. Read this day. LJ, V, 128, in extenso.

/11: 13 June 1642. Letter from Philip Tyrwhitt to Lord Willoughby refusing to deliver up the magazine in his custody to him. Signed, Phillipp Tyrwhitt, Stamefeild, 8 June. Read this day. LJ, V, 128, in extenso.

/12: 12 June 1642. Copy of part of letter from Amsterdam concerning the purchase of arms there. LJ, V, 126, in extenso up to a list of guns. For remainder of the letter see Braye MS 47, No 15.

/13: 12 June 1642. Copy of letter from Amsterdam to John Beauchamp, London merchant, concerning trade and the purchase of arms. LJ, V, 126, in extenso.

/14: 18 June 1642. Copy of Commission of Array for Leicestershire. LJ, V, 147 (abbreviated).

/15: 18 June 1642. Copy of Charles I’s letter to the Commissioners of Array for Leicestershire. Dated, York, 12 June. LJ, V, 148-9, in extenso.

/16: 16 July 1642. Report from HC Committee concerning the state of Munster with HC Order for bringing forces there. CJ, II, 679, in extenso.

/17: 27 August 1642. Report of proceedings concerning the attempt by the Earl of Southampton to deliver a message to HL from the King. LJ, V, 326, in extenso.

/18: 23 September 1642. Copy of Declaration of both Houses sent to the States of Holland. LJ, V, 372, in extenso.

/19: 1 July 1642. Copy (with amendments) of Declaration of both Houses concerning the Commission of Array for Leicestershire. LJ, V, 170. Rushworth, III, i, 661-7, in extenso.

/20: 26 April 1641. Copy (with amendments) of speech by Edward Hyde against the President and Council of the North at a Conference of both Houses. LJ, IV, 226. Rushworth, III, i, 230-3, in extenso. Cf Braye MS 2, ff 130-5.

/21: 3 November 1640. Copy (with amendments) of Lord Keeper’s speech at the Opening of Parliament. LJ, IV, 82. Rushworth, III, i, 12-16, in extenso. Cf Braye MS 10, ff 61-8.

/22: 9 March 1643/4. Answer of both Houses to a paper from the Scots Commissioners concerning the Covenant. LJ, VI, 461, in extenso.

/23: 27 June 1643. Copy of letter from both Houses to the Estates of Scotland. LI, VI, 112, in extenso.

/24: 9 March 1643/4. Additional instructions from both Houses to John, Earl of Rutland, et al, concerning affairs in Scotland and northern England. LJ, VI, 461-3, in extenso.

/25: 11 April 1643. Instructions (with amendments) from both Houses to the Committees at Oxford about the Commissioners from Scotland. LJ, V, 713, in extenso.

/26: 27 June 1643. Instructions (with amendments) from both Houses to John Corbett concerning his mission to Scotland. LJ, VI, 113, in extenso.

/27: 27 June 1643. Copy of letter of credence for John Corbett. LJ, VI, 113, in extenso.

/28: 27 June 1643. Copy of letter of both Houses to the Council of Scotland asking for the Earl of Antrim to be handed over for trial. LJ, VI, 113, in extenso.

/29: 19 July 1643. Draft declaration (with amendments) of both Houses that six Scottish lords who wrote to the Queen are incendiaries. LJ, Vi, 137, in extenso.

/30: 19 July 1643. Copy of letter of credence from both Houses to the States of Scotland for the committees going there. LJ, Vi, 139, in extenso.

/31: 19 July 1643. Copy of letter from both Houses to the Earl of Leven asking him to take command if the Scots send an army to assist them. LJ, VI, 139, in extenso.

/32: 17 January 1644/5. Copy (with amendments) of the Answer from both Houses and the Scots Commissioners to the King about a Treaty of Peace. LJ, VII, 143, in extenso.

/33: 28 January 1644/5. Copy of the Ordinance of both Houses empowering their Commissioners to treat with the King’s Commissioners. LJ, VII, 159, in extenso.

/34-6: 21 March 1644/5. Three papers from the Scots Commissioners concerning their army marching southward and the Scots army in Ireland. Signed, Jo Cheislie, 19 March. LJ, VII, 282-3, in extenso.

/37: 25 May 1644. Copy of letter from both Houses to the Parliament of Scotland. LJ, VI, 568-9, in extenso.

/38: 20 August 1644. Copy of Commission dated 16 July granted by the Parliament of Scotland to their Commissioners at London to assent to the Propositions. LJ, VI, 681-2, in extenso.

/39: 28 June 1645. Copy of letter dated 21 June from the Committee at York to the Earl of Leven about proposed surrender of Carlisle and the Earl’s reply, dated 23 June. Read this day. LJ, VII, 353, in extenso.

/40: 14 August 1644. Copy of letter to HL from the Earl of Essex enclosing copy of his letter to Prince Maurice, both dated Lostwithiel, 10 August. Read this day. LJ, VI, 671, in extenso.

/41: 20 September 1645. Orders of the Committee of Lords and Commons for the Admiralty and the Cinque Ports. LJ, VII, 589, in extenso.

/42: 5 December 1644. Copy of letter, dated 22 November, concerning coal sent from Newcastle for the London poor. Read this day. LJ, VII, 88, in extenso.

/43: 24-26 September 1644. Minutes of the Committee of both Kingdoms concerning Col Butler and the loss in the west. Read 3 December. LJ, VII, 83, in extenso.

/44: 29 April 1645. Letter from Lord Leven to the Committee of both Kingdoms, dated, Newcastle, 22 April. Read this day. LJ, VII, 343-4.

/45: 2 April 1645. Copy of Declaration of the Lord General (Earl of Essex) on delivering up his Commission. LJ, VII, 300, in extenso.

/46: 2 April 1645. Draft Heads (with amendments) for a Conference with HC about the Lord General etc. LJ, VII, 301, in extenso.

/47: 10 May 1645. HC Resolutions concerning the Scots Army. Entered in Commons Journal under 9 May. CJ, IV, 137, in extenso.

/48: 23 September 1645. Copy of letter from General Robert Russell to the Earl of Warwick concerning defence of Guernsey. Dated, Guernsey, 16 September. Read this day. LJ, VII, 594, in extenso.

/49: 23 September 1645. Information concerning a fleet fitted out at Falmouth, designed against Guernsey. LJ, VII, 593, in extenso.

/50: 23 September 1645. Copy of letter from Peter de Beavoir et al concerning the King’s designs against Guernsey. Dated Guernsey, 13 September. Read this day. LJ, VII, 590, in extenso.

/51: 23 September 1645. Copy of letter from above asking for free export of wool to Guernsey etc. Dated, Guernsey, 31 August. Read this day. LJ, VII, 597-8, in extenso.

/52: 9 October 1645. Paper from the Scots Commissioners concerning Scots Army and the Propositions for Peace. Signed Jo Cheisley. LJ, VII, 630-1, in extenso.

/53: 20 November 1645. Translation of letter from The Governor of Flanders about trade and the restitution of ships taken. Dated Brussels, 28 October. Read this day. LJ, VII, 714, in extenso.

/54: 8 November 1645. Declaration (dated 25 October) of the knights, gentlemen and freeholders of Co Glamorgan that they will adhere to Parliament. Read this day. LJ, VII, 682-3, in extenso.

Braye Ms 46: A Continuation of Braye MS 45

/55: 11 November 1645. Copy of Petition of the Governor and Company of Russia Merchants. LJ, VII, 695-6, in extenso.

/56: 17 December 1645. Copy of letter from Charles I to HL asking for a pass for his Commissioners to come to London. Dated, Oxford, 15 December. Read this day. LJ, VIII, 46, in extenso.

/57: 28 November 1645. Copy of letter from Walter Strickland concerning relations with the Netherlands, Spain, France etc. Dated, The Hague, 20 November. Read this day. LJ, VIII, 15, in extenso.

/58-93: 15-22 November 1646. Papers relating to negotiations between the Marquess of Ormonde and the Parliamentary Commissioners for the surrender of Dublin and all other garrisons under his command. Cf LJ, VIII, 522, Rushworth, IV, i, 420-43. /58-9, 61, 64, 66, 69, 71, 74-5, 77, 79, 81, 83, 85, 87-8, 91-2: 15-22 November. Papers from Lord Ormonde. Rushworth, IV, i, 420-43, in extenso./60, 62-3, 65, 67-8, 70, 72-3, 76, 78, 80, 82, 84, 86, 89-90, 93: 15-22 November. Papers from Robert Meredith, Thomas Wharton, Robert King, John Clotworthy and Richard Salwey, Commissioners. Ibid, 421-43, in extenso.

/94: 5 February 1646/7. Copy of letter from both Houses to the Parliament of Scotland desiring the delivery of Belfast to the English forces. LJ, VIII, 708-9, in extenso.

/95: 2 December 1646. Report from the Speaker, HC, concerning correspondence with the Scots Commissioners. Signed H. Elsynge, Cler, Parl, D Com. CJ, IV, 736, in extenso.

/96-102: 11-19 June 1647. Papers concerning relations between the City of London and the army.

/96: 17 June 1647. Message dated 15 June from the Common Council of the City of London concerning their meeting with Sir Thomas Fairfax. Signed Michell LJ, IX, 274, in extenso.

/97: 17 June 1647. Copy of letter, dated 14 June, from Sir Thomas Fairfax and the Council of War to the Commissioners of the City desiring them to prevent levies of men to oppose the army. Signed Jo Rushworth, Secr. LJ, IX, 275, in extenso.

/98: 11 June 1647. Copy of petition from the Common Council to Parliament for orders to be given that the army should not come near London. LJ, IX, 256-7, in extenso.

/99: 11 June 1647. Copy of letter from Sir Thomas Fairfax, Oliver Cromwell and other officers to the Common Council stating that they are leading the army towards London to obtain their demands of Parliament but will not harm the City. Dated, Royston, 10 June. Read this day. LJ, IX, 257, in extenso.

/100: 19 June 1647. Copy of letter, dated 18 June, from the Common Council to the Council of War to preserve good relations between them. Read this day. LJ, IX, 281, in extenso.

/101: 17 June 1647. Copy of letter from the Council of War to the Common Council promising to withdraw further from London as soon as Parliament agrees to certain Resolutions. Dated, St Albans, 15 June. Read this day. LJ, IX, 275, in extenso.

/102: 19 June 1647. Copy of request, dated 18 June, of the Common Council that soldiers recently enlisted may be discharged. Read this day. LJ, IX, 281-2, in extenso.

/103: (a) 17 January 1647/8. Copy (in Browne’s hand) of Declaration of the Council of War that they will maintain the rights and privileges of the Peers. Dated, Windsor, 9 January. HL answer to the above. LJ, IX, 664, in extenso.(b) 6 May 1648. Copy (in Browne’s hand) of Resolutions of both Houses that they will not alter the fundamental government of the kingdom and will maintain the Covenant, etc. LJ, X, 247, in extenso.

/104: 16 November 1647. Resolutions of both Houses concerning Propositions to be present to the king. Referred to the Committee of both Kingdoms. LJ, IX, 527; CJ, V, 360, in extenso.

/105: 20, 22 November 1647. Resolutions of both Houses and of the Committee of both Kingdoms for the Scots Commissioners to be pressed for an answer concerning the Propositions. LJ, IX, 534, 537-8; CJ, V, 366, in extenso.

/106: 15, 16 December 1647. HC Resolution concerning an answer to the Scots Commissioners. Referred to the Committee of both Kingdoms. CJ, V, 386-7, in extenso.

/107: 17 June 1647. Orders, dated 12 and 16 June, of the Committee of Safety concerning assembly of forces. Read this day. LJ, IX, 275, in extenso.

/108: 14 September 1647. Account of the presentation of Propositions to the king. LJ, IX, 434, in extenso.

/109: 26 October 1647. Resolution of both Houses about presenting Propositions to the king. Referred to the Committee of both Kingdoms. LJ, IX, 495, in extenso.

/110: 11 November 1647. Resolution of both Houses for the Propositions to be communicated to the Scots Commissioners. Referred to the Committee of both Kingdoms. LJ, IX, 518, in extenso.

/111: 17 January 1647/8, 6 May 1648. Duplicate of 103.

/112: 3 January 1645/6. Copy of answer of both Houses to the King’s letter expressing a wish to come to Parliament. LJ, VIII, 81-2, in extenso.

/113: 12 July 1649. Copy of letter from Lord Derby to General Ireton refusing to surrender the Isle of Man to him. Peck, Desiderata Curiosa, op cit, II, 451, in extenso.

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Braye Ms 47: Miscellaneous Parliamentary and Other Manuscripts

Photographic copies of a volume of documents sold as lot 110 at Messrs Christie on 23 June 1954. The originals are now preserved in Yale University Library (Osborn MSS). The documents are mostly those which were undated and difficult to identify. HMCB, no ref.

/1: [14 June 1642]. Petition of the knights, gentry, etc, of Somerset for the removal of all ‘misunderstandings’ between the King and Parliament. LJ, V, 133-4, in extenso.

/2: 3 June 1685. Copy of Protest of the Earl of Anglesey and other Lords against engrossing the Bill reversing the attainder of Viscount Stafford. LJ, XIV, 29, in extenso.

/3: 7 May 1662. Report (with corrections) of a Conference between the Houses concerning the Bill for Uniformity. LJ, XI, 446-50, in extenso.

/4: [post 1660] Copy (in Browne’s hand) of a Message from the King to HC concerning granting a supply for the navy.

/5: [post 1660] Rough draft of above.

/6: [? 1642] Petition of the gentry and freeholders of the county of York to the King for the preservation of union within the kingdom.

/7: [21 February 1670/1] Heads or clauses of the Petition to prevent the growth of popery. Cf CJ, IX, 206.

/8: 10 March 1670/2. Report (with corrections) of the Conference on the Petition to the King against the growth of popery. LJ, XII, 449-51, in extenso.

/9: [August 1640]. Copy of Grounds of Exception and Petition of the gentry and clergy of the county of Devon to the Lords of the Privy Council against the Oath etc required in the sixth canon of Synod of 1640. Cf Braye MS 2, ff 119-20. Rushworth, II, 1207-9, in extenso.

/10: 14 January 1640/1. Copy of speech (lacking conclusion) by Lord Falkland after the reading of the Articles of Impeachment against Lord Keeper Finch. For conclusion see Braye MS 2, ff 102-3. Nalson, I, 726, in extenso.

/11: 8 March 1672/3. Copy (with correction) of King’s Answer to an Address against the increase of Popery. LJ, XII, 549, in extenso.

/12: 15 June 1644. Copy of examination of Lord Chandos concerning Lord Conway’s intention to leave Oxford. LJ, VI, 592, in extenso.

/13: [post 6 February 1645/6]. Testimony (deleted) of Walter Frost concerning letters allegedly taken from the Earl of Northumberland’s lodgings by Monsieur Montreul. Cf CJ, Iv, 430. Further testimony by Frost concerning printing at Edinburgh of speeches made in the Painted Chamber.

/14: [post 21 February 1642/3]. The Lords’ alterations to the Propositions to be presented to the King for a Cessation of Arms. Cf LJ, V, 612, seq.

/15: 12 June 1642. List of arms appended to letter from Amsterdam (Braye MS 45/12), with deleted notes concerning jewels. LJ, V, 126, in extensor (list not notes).

/16: 20 January 1640/1. Report by the Earl of Warwick of a Conference with HC, concerning Ship Money and a speech (incomplete) by Mr St John. LJ, IV, 136.

/17: 28 October 1689. Earl of Salisbury’s answer to his impeachment for treason. LJ, XIV, 327, in extenso.

/18: [? December 1646]. Memorandum concerning the appointment of Thomas Smith as a Commissioner of the Navy. Cf LJ, VIII, 609.

/19: Nd. Copy of message from the Kin concerning Sir Richard Temple’s petition. Superscribed, Charles R, LJ, CJ, no ref.

/20: [? post 22 November 1646]. Copy of letter from two of the Parliamentary Commissioners concerning failure of negotiations with Lord Ormonde. Signed, Thomas Wharton, R Salwey. Cf Braye MS 46/58-93.

/21: Nd. Deposition by Thomas Pratt of Chipping Warden, Co Northants concerning lands there.

/22: [post February 1645]. Draft ‘Reasons why the Lords adhere to thiere former vote’ concerning a treaty with the King (refers to previous negotiations at Uxbridge).

/23: [pre 1668]. List of Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament (including Earl of Clarendon, Lord Chancellor). Presents are marked.

/24: [? 1660]. ‘the Names of the Peeres of England according to their creation and Precedency’ (includes Henry, duke of Gloucester). Endorsed ‘corrected by the lyst delivered in by Sir Edward Walker, Garter of Armes’. Some titles marked extinct.

/25: [20 March 1620/1 – 24 April 1621]. Memoranda in Browne’s hand) of proceedings in HL mostly concerning charges against the Lord Chancellor and Sir Giles Mompesson. LJ, III, 56-82.

/26: Nd. Declaration concerning the government of the Church of England. Endorsed ‘the Answere drawne up by the Lords Committees for church Government’.

/27: [? 1686]. Copy of an ‘Address of the Scotch Lords to the King’, refers to King’s proposal of toleration for Roman Catholics. Amongst the signatories is the earl of Perth, Lord Chancellor.

/28: Nd. Note of penalties against peers for non-attendance or departing from parliament without leave. 3 Edward III – 31 Henry V.

/29: 29 April 1640. Summary (in Browne’s hand) of report by the Lord Keeper of a speech by Mr Pym at a Conference between the Houses. LJ, IV, 72-3 ?fuller version of speech).

/30: [10 April 1563 – 6 December 1610]. Precedents for Prorogations of Parliament.

/31: Nd. Draft Bill for the taking of a declaration against taking arms against the King, etc.

/32: [? 1642]. Paper entitled ‘the Consequence of the Trade and Convoy’. Refers to attacks by the Dutch on convoys of merchant ships trading between Dover and Dunkirk. Cf LJ, V, 238.

/33: Nd. Precedents, in Browne’s hand, concerning the role of the Commons in Impeachments, Edward III – Henry IV.

/34: 16 March 1642/3. Mr Pym’s report from the Committee appointed to consider the seventh Article of the proposed Treaty with the King and the reasons why they cannot agree with HL in the seventh Article. CJ, III, 3, in extenso. Cf Braye MS 45/2.

/35: 20 March 1688/9. Draft amendment to the Bill for abrogating the Paths of Allegiance and Supremacy. LJ, XIV, 154, in extenso

/36: 22 April 1671. Speeches of the Speaker of HC (incomplete) and the King at the Prorogation (in oratio recta). LJ, XII, 514-6, in extenso (in oratio obliqua).

/37: 27 January 1670/1. Report (in oratio recta) of Conference with HC on the Bill to prevent malicious maiming and wounding. LJ, XII, 413-16, in extenso (in oratio obliqua).

/38: 16 June 1685. List of Acts receiving Royal Assent.

/39: Nd. Lord Keeper’s speech on Prorogation.

/40: Nd. Rough notes by Browne of HL business and of ‘goods sold and works done for Mr Coles by Jennings’.

/41: [Temp Henry VIII]. Extract from the Black Book of the Garter concerning the Office of Black Rod.

Braye Ms 48: A Continuation of Braye MS 47

/42: Nd. List of lords for a committee?

/43: 22 June 1685. King’s message concerning the capture of the Earl of Argyle, HL Address of Thanks and King’s Answer. LJ, XIV, 52, in extenso.

/44: 24 March 1672/3. Summary report of conference with HC concerning Bill against Popish Recusants. LJ, XII, 567-8, in extenso.

/45: [1660-66]. Provisoes etc, in money bills.

/46: [1621-8]. Lists, in Browne’s hand, of Bills read twice and three times.

/47: Nd. ‘Noates and observacions upon the Statute of Magna Carta and other Statues concerning the proceeding in the Chauncerie in cases of Equitie and conscence’. In Robert Bowyer;s hand.

/48: Nd. Clerk’s note on the first Journal preserved in the Parliament Office.

/49: [1606-7]. Copy, in Bowyer’s hand, of summary of the Parliament Roll for this Session.

/50: [1388]. Translation of certain of the articles of the appeal in Parliament against the Archbishop of York, Robert de Vere, Michael de la Pole, Robert Tresilian and Nicholas Brembre. cf Rot Parl, III, 231-6.

/51: [1388]. Extract from the Rolls of Parliament, II Richard II. Ibid 237.

/52: Nd. Copy of the Speaker’s claim of privilege to the King.

/53: [post 1660]. List of grants made by the King to Lord Herbert and others.

/54: [1660-71]. List, in Browne’s hand, of ‘Bills of Money and Supply granted to the King since his Restauration’.

/55: Nd. Note and paper, in Browne’s hand, on ‘the Papists Opinion of the Real Presence’.

/56: Nd. Latin verses sent from Christ Church to Mr Laud of Balliol. Annexed. Latin discourse entitled ‘Orator poetae praeferendus’.

/57: 12 September 1690. List of Presents and note of prorogation to 2 October. LJ, XIV, 512, in extenso.

/58: Nd. Copy of the Coronation Oath.

/59: 6 April 1638. ‘a Catalogue of what Journall Bookes I rec’d from Mr Knevitts executors’, in Browne’s hand.

/60: [1579-84]. Copies, in Browne’s hand, of ‘Directions for Preachers’ nd; ‘The speech which Mr Stubbes made before the cutting off of his right hand. November 3, 1579’; ‘The Rules to be observed in the Translation of the Bible’ with ‘the Places and persons agreed upon for the Hebrew and the Greek’; ‘Certain Requests made by the lower house to Parliament holden 1584 to the Bishops’ (with answers).[1579-84]. Copies, in Browne’s hand, of ‘Directions for Preachers’ nd; ‘the speech which Mr Stubbes made before the cutting off of his right hand. November 3 1579’; ‘the Rules to be observed in the Translation of the Bible’ with ‘the Places and persons agreed upon for the Hebrew and the Greek’; ‘Certain Requests made by the lower house in Parliament holden 1584 to the Bishops’ (with answers).

/61: [1376]. Copy (in translation) of proceedings in Impeachment of Lord John Neville. Rot Parl, II, 328-9.

/62: [November 1635]. Copy of grant in reversion to Daniel Bedingfield of office of Clerk of the Parliaments.

/63: 26 February 1646/7. Oxford. Letter from Thomas Trulocke to his landlord John Browne concerning purchase of a copyhold etc.

/64: [3 October 1671]. Copy of letter of appointment by Sir Thomas Crew of Steane, Co Northants of Thomas Rogers as his gamekeeper.

/65: 21 May 1640. Notes of payment made by William Spencer and John Browne to Gamaliell Catelyn.

/66: [13 March 1638]. Copy of grant to John Browne of office of Clerk of the Parliaments with reversion to Robert Packer.

/67: Nd. Notes on the history of Waltham and Coggeshall Abbeys.

/68: [c 1500]. List of gifts of land and rents to Sulby Abbey.

/69: Nd. Notes on procedure in manorial courts.

/70: 4 October 1647. Order for making a rate in the parish of Twickenham.

/71: [1604-5]. Paper entitled ‘Arguments against worshipping the Host’.

/72: 30 March 1670. Brief of Thomas Davison Estate Bill. Read 1a this day. LJ, XII, 332.

/73: 26 March 1670. Brief of Dean of St Paul’s Bill. Read 1a this day. LJ, XII, 325.

/74: [post 1665]. Brief of Dean of St Paul’s Bill. Read 1a this day. LJ, XII, 324.

/75: [post 1665]. Case of Joseph Primate for an Estate Bill. LJ, no ref.

/76: 23 February 1669/70. Brief of Manor of Thornbury Bill. Read 1a this day. LJ, XII, 293.

/77: 1 March 1669/70. Printed case of Richard and John Beckham for an Estate Bill. Bill read 1a this day. LJ, XII, 296.

/78: 2 March 1669/70. Brief of Manor of Firbeck Bill. Read 1a this day. LJ, XII, 297.

/79: 1 March 1669/70. Brief of Lady Lee’s Estate Bill. Read 1a this daya. LJ, XII, 296.

Braye Ms 49: A Continuation of Braye MSS 47 and 48

/80: 2 March 1669/70. Petition of Lady Elizabeth Routh for a Bill. LJ, XII, 297.

/81: [3 June 1670]. Order of the Commissioners for Charitable Uses concerning property in Chipping Warden, Co Northants. LJ, no ref.

/82 a-d: 2 May 1678. Anglo-Dutch Treaty Papers 9translated).a) Article concerning Freiburg, 16/26 January 1677/8.b) Article concerning Lorraine and Sweden, 16/26 January 1677/8.c) Declaration concerning the Emperor and Empire, 16/26 January 1677/8.d) Declaration of the States Deputies about the towns to be restored to Spain, 16/26 January 1677.8Read this day.. LJ, XIII, 210. See also Braye MS 3, ff 119-24.

/83: [? 1638]. Draft agreement for John Browne, Edward Bagshawe and Thomas Hughes to purchase the manor and rectory of Radstone, Co Northants. Cf Braye MS 2, ff 44-5.

/84: [? 2 December 1575]. A note of the annual revenues of every bishopric in England and Wales.

/85: Nd. Copy, in Browne’s hand, of the second Address the King by the Commission for Public Accounts and message to HC, concerning HL powers in financial matters.

/86: Nd. Reasons to be presented at a Conference concerning a clause to change the Commission of Sewers in Co Lincoln.

/87: Nd. Genealogical table of the Browne, Heyward and Camvile families.

/88: [? early seventeenth century]. Survey of Fotheringay College, Co Northants.

/89: Nd. Assessment of the Hundred of Goodlaxton for the maintenance of married soldiers.

/90: 1739. Copy of decree of the Convocation of Oxford concerning Robert Thistlethwaite DD (Latin).

/91: Nd. Notes, Browne’s hand, on ‘Mr Pryn against Cosins’ (William Prynne’s criticism of the Laudian John Cosin); ‘Heylin’s History of Laud’ and ‘Mr Pryns Plea for the Lords and House of Peers’.

/92: September 1665. Copy of the Earl of Sandwich’s account of a naval battle with the Dutch.

/93: 16 April 1689. HL amendments to an Address from HC, thanking the King for his care of the Protestant Religion. LJ, XIV, 176-7.

/94: 6 May 1689. Precedents cited in the Earl of Devonshire’s claim of breach of privilege. LJ, XIV, 201-3.

/95: 21 November 1689. Receipt by David Short for payment for pictures made for John Browne.

/96: 29 January 1683. Letter from Edmund Bromwich to John Browne.

/97: 25 April 1673. Order of the Court of Chancery in the cause John Browne et al v Bernard Maunder et al.

/98: 9, 13 July 1655. Two Orders in the cause of John Browne v Sir Gerrard Fleetwood.

/99: 17 November 1670. Cusack et al v Usher. note on the cause. LJ, XII, 366.

/100: 2 April 1748. Copy of quotation in the ‘Westminster Journal’ from a pamphlet against an Act for vesting in his Majesty the estates of certain traitors and an Act for abolishing heritable jurisdictions in Scotland.

/101: [Edward III – Philip and Mary]. ‘A extract of subsidies of the expressions of granting them’. Copies, in Browne’s hand, of the preambles to grants of subsidiese.

/102: Nd. Incomplete note on Acts concerning treason.

/103: Nd. ‘My evidence in open court, delivered at the Assizes of Northampton, three several times upon command’. Testimony concerning the making of Sir Euseby Andrewes’ will. Signed Jo Cotta.

/104: [post 1592]. Genealogical tree of descendants of John Gardiner of Wadesmill, Co Herts.

/105: 1 December 1601. ‘Discourse to their Lordships on behalf of the Puritans.’ MS tract of 31 pp.

/106: 8 February 1646/7. Answer of the East India Company to HL. Refers to Mr Courteene. Cf LJ, IX, 20.

/107: 18 December 1689. Receipt of payment for goods by James Calcut, on behalf of John Browne.

/108: Nd. Extracts, in Browne’s hand, from a book concerning Cromwell’s government.

/109: 1666. Printed list of ships in the navy with the number of men and guns.

/110: [1647]. Printed descent of Godfrey, Earl of Augy or Ewe in Normandy? relating to the claim of Sir Henry Mildmay to the barony of FitzWalter. LJ, IX, 329.

Braye Ms 50: Miscellaneous Parliamentary Manuscripts

Photographic copies of documents sold as lot III at Messrs Christie on 23 June 1954. The originals are now preserved in Yale University Library (Osborn MSS). HMCB, no ref.pp 1-33: c 1607-10]. ‘A Breife Collection of all generall Penall statues now in force and in use…’ A paper volume of 33 pp signed by Thomas Ash and owned by John Browne. The statutes are l listed under subject headings.pp 34-108: 1621-9. A paper volume of 72 pp in vellum covers made from a medieval commentary on the 'Perambulation of the Forest’.pp 34-5: Vellum cover
pp 36-7: 17 March 1628. Copy of the King’s Speech. LJ, III, 687, in extenso.

p 38: 22 March 1627/8. Copy of Sir Francis Seymour’s speech. Proceedings in Parliament 1628, op cit, vol II, 55-7, in extenso with verbal differences.

p 39: 22 March 1627/8. Copy of Sir Thomas Wentworth’s speech. Ibid 60-1, in extenso with verbal differences.

p 40: 26 March 1628. Copy of the propositions sent by the King to HC. Ibid 121, in extenso with verbal differences.

pp 42-5: 26 January 1629/9. Copy of Francis Rous’s speech touching religion. Commons Debates for 1629, eds W Notestein and FH Relf (University of Minnesota, 1921), 12-14, in extenso.

pp 46-7: 11 May 1626. HC Message to HL concerning the Duke of Buckingham. LJ, III, 592, in extenso with slight verbal differences.

pp 48-61: 3 June 1628. Copy of Sir John Eliot’s speech. Proceedings in Parliament 1628, op cit, vol IV, 60-6, in extenso with verbal differences.

pp 62-76: 14 June 1628. HC Remonstrance to the King. Ibid, 311-17, in extenso.

pp 77-80: [c 1626-9]. Address to the King concerning the Duke of Buckingham.

pp 81-107: [16211-6]. Copies of speeches in HC referring to Count Mansfeld etc and copy of letter from Pope Gregory XV to Louis XIII, 4 September 1621.

pp 108-9: Vellum cover see pp 34-5.

Braye Ms 51: A Continuation of Braye MS 50

pp 110-14: [c 1625]. ‘A Catalogue of the Nobility of England according to their Creations’. List of peers in order of creation, Henry II – I Car I.p 115: 25 June 1640. Copy of receipt by John Browne for his quarterly annuity of £10 from the Hanaper.

p 116: Nd. Copy, in Browne’s hand, of Spiritual and Temporal Peers’ act of homage to the King.

pp 118-120: Nd. Notes, in Browne’s hand, on the use of "busses" and their effect on commerce with the Dutch.

pp 120-5: [1626] ‘Certaine generall rules Collected concerning money and bullion out of the late Consultacion at Court by Sir Robert Cotton kt and Barronett and delivered to his Majesty at the Bord’. Incomplete treatise.

pp 126-248: 26 March – 3 May 1621. Copy of proceedings in HL including the trials of Sir Giles Mompesson, Lord Chancellor Bacon, Sir Henry Yelverton, Sir Francis Mitchell and Mathias Fowles. The order of the entries is somewhat confused. LJ, III, 68-106, in extenso with verbal differences.

p 249: A continuation of pp 120-5.

pp 250-5: [Easter Term, 1628]. Copy, in Browne’s hand, of Charles I’s questions to the Judges and their answers concerning Habeas Corpus etc. Cf SR Gardiner, History of England, VI, 294-6.

pp 256-7: Nd. ‘An Answer touching Scutage’. Notes in Browne’s hand.

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Braye Ms 52: A Continuation of Braye MSS 50-1

pp 258-60: [? 1686]. "Reasons humbly offered to the Duke of Albemarle against his going Governor of Jamaica". Cf Braye MS 10, ff 234-7.

pp 260-6: [? 1640]. Schedule of fees payable to the Clerk of the Parliaments, Gentleman Usher, Chief Clerk and Yeoman Usher by the Lords at their first coming to Parliament. Also fees for proxies, for Public and Private Bills, judicial fees etc. Cf ER Foster, The Housue of Lords, 1603-1649, 249.

pp 267-329: (28 November 1646). ‘A Declaration of the Lords and Commons in Answer to the Scotch Papers’. Copy of the Declaration with references to the Lords and other amendments inserted. HC Order to print, this day. CJ, IV, 730. Printed as ‘The Answer of the Commons assembled in Parliament, to the Scots Commissioners Papers of the 20th and their Letter of the 24th of October last’ (concerning the disposal of the person of the King). Rushworth, IV, pt I, 342-73, in extenso.

pp 330-416: [1624-5]. Paper volume endorsed, in the hand of Henry Elsynge, ‘Modus tenendi parl apud Anglos’.

pp 332-5: ‘Modus tenendi Parliamentum apud Anglos in 2 bookes’. List of the contents of the eight chapters of Book One published in 1660 as The Manner of Holding Parliaments in England.

p 336: ‘The seconde booke shall have 11 chapters’. List, in Elsynge’s hand, of the proposed 11 chapters of Book Two, never completed. Cf CS Sims (ed), Expedicio Billarum antiquitus (Louvain, 1954), p XX; ER Foster, The Painful Labour of Mr Elsyng (1972), 35-60.

pp 337-416: Draft of ‘Summons’ (of Peers to Parliament), chapter I of Book One, with annotations by Elsynge.

Braye Ms 53: Miscellaneous Parliamentary and other Manuscripts

Photographic copies of documents sold as lot 112 at Messrs Christie on 23 June 1954. The originals are now preserved in Yale University Library (Osborn MSS). HMCB, no ref.

/1: [? late 15th century]. Memorandum concerning descent and tenure of lands.

/2: [c 1610]. Notes in the hand of Robert Bowyer on formulae to be written on Bills and precedents concerning amendments.

/3: [16 May 1645]. Notes of Proceedings, HL, made by John Browne. LJ, VII, 375. Browne appears to have taken these notes (which contain details, particularly of Appeal Cases, not in the Journals) in place of the earlier "scribbled books". Many are to be found in the Main Papers, eg 26 May, 8, 10 June, 20, 25, 29 July 1643 (ER Foster), The House of Lords 1603-1649, 54, 248). In this and subsequent examples, the notes may cover several days’ sittings and it is not always possible to identify the overall dates.

/4: 29 January 1640/1. Notes of Proceedings, HL LJ, IV, 147, et seq.

/5: 27 February 1640/1. HL. Orders for vacats to be made of entries in the records concerning Ship Money. Ibid 173.

/6: 17-19 March 1640/1. Draft, with amendments, of Orders and Directions concerning the trial of the Earl of Strafford and notes of other proceedings. Ibid, 187-90.

/7: Nd. Notes on the books of Declarations (1641-6).

/8: 9 July – 28 August 1641. HL Diary Sheets, in Browne’s hand.

/9: 18 June – 7 July 1660. Notes of Proceedings, HL LJ, XI, 67-85.

/10: 18 July 1660, etc. Notes of Proceedings, HL Ibid, 96 et seq.

/11: 21-23 August 1660. Notes of Proceedings, HL Ibid 136-8.

/12: [1661-6]. Notes of proceedings in Earl of Banbury’s case, etc.

/13: 3-5 March 1661/2. Notes of Proceedings, HL LJ, XI, 397-9.

/14: 26 November – 3 December 1660. Notes of Proceedings, HL Ibid 192-7.

/15: 4-6 September 1660, etc. Notes of Proceedings, HL Ibid 154 et seq.

/16: 16 January – 22 February 1661/2. Notes of Proceedings, HL Ibid 365-92.

/17: 18-21 March 1661/2. Notes of Proceedings, HL Ibid 410-13.

/18: 10 April – 12 May 1662. Notes of Proceedings, HL Ibid 426-56.

/19: 12-23 June 1663. Notes of Proceedings, HL Ibid 536-42.

/20: 10 October – 8 November 1667. Notes of Proceedings, HL LJ, XII, 115-32.

/21: 26 March – 24 April 1668. Notes of Proceedings, HL Ibid 209-34.

/22: 29 February – 17 March 1667/8. Notes of Proceedings, HL Ibid, 194-208.

/23: 19 October – 15 November 1669. Notes of Proceedings, HL Ibid 251-67.

/24: 15 May – 16 June 1660. Notes of Proceedings, HL LJ, XI, 28-65.

/25: 27 January – 14 March 1670/1. Notes of Proceedings, HL LJ, XII, 413-57.

/26: 5 February – 14 March 1672/3. Notes of Proceedings, HL Ibid 532-56.

/27: 21 October – 8 November 1678. Notes of Proceedings, HL LJ, XIII, 293-343.

/28: 25 November – 12 December 1678. Notes of Proceedings, HL Ibid 375-422.

/29: 10 April – 2 May 1679. Notes of Proceedings, HL Ibid 510-50.

/30: 12-27 May 1679. Notes of Proceedings, HL Ibid 568-95.

/31: 15 November 1680, etc. Notes of Proceedings, HL Ibid 666 et seq.

/32: 20-22 March, 15 April 1688/9. Notes of Proceedings, HL LJ, XIV, 154-7, 175.

Braye Ms 54: A continuation of Braye MS 53

/33: 1609-12. Allowances to Robert Barker, the King’s Printer, for paper, books etc, for the use of Parliament.

/34: 28 July 1610. Allowance to Ralph Ewens, Clerk of the Commons, with note by Robert Bowyer (8 November 1614).

/35: June - November 1611. Receipts from Chancery for returns to Writs of Certiorari made by Robert Bowyer.

/36: October 1601. Note of fees paid to the Clerk of the Parliaments for Lord Montague’s admission and proxy and for Lord Cromwell’s proxy.

/37: March 1609/10. Draft articles of agreement between Robert Bowyer and Owen Reynolds ‘underclerk’, in Bowyers hand, see Foster, The House of Lords 1603-1649, 57-8.

/38: 1610-11. Receipts from Chancery for returns to Writs of Certiorari made by Robert Bowyer.

/39: 15 February 1609/10. Note of sums paid by Peers.

/40: 4 April 1614. Bill for books, paper, parchment etc, supplied by Robert Barker, king’s Printer, signed by Henry Elsynge.

/41: 10 February 1603/4. Similar bill, signed by Robert Barker.

/42: 20 January 1620/1. List of peers in receipt of Writs of Summons.

/43: 29 January 1640/1. Copy of Remonstrance of both Houses to the King concerning Jesuits. Rushworth, III, I, 158-60, in extenso with verbal differences.

/44: Nd. List, in Browne’s hand, of ‘Bills to be re-enacted’.

/45: 20 June 1667. Copy of Order in the Queen’s Council concerning alleged arrears of rent for land held by Browne in Twickenham.

/46: 17 August 1666. Account of offers for charitable uses for lands in Chipping Warden, Co Northants, for previous three years.

/47: 9 September 1661. Copy of Warrant for the disinterment of bodies of persons (named) buried in Henry VII’s and other chapels in Westminter Abbey and their re-burial in Abbey churchyard. JG Nichols, Collectanea topographica et genealogica, VIII (1843), 152-4, in extenso.

/48: 20 January – 10 March 1628/9. An abstract of business in HL, under various heads.

/49: 16 December 1661, 9 January 1661/2. Note of evidence in Thynne v Thynne. LJ, XI, 351, 361.

/50: 20 January 1628/9. List of Peers present. LJ, IV, 5.

/51: [29 October 1605]. Copy of letter written to Lord Monteagle (warning of the Gunpowder Plot).

/52: 29 December 1660. List of Acts. LJ, XI, 235.

/53: 21 March 1669/70. Brief of the Brandon and Waveney Rivers Bill, read 1a this day. LJ, XII, 319.

/54: 13 May 1661. Draft Vote of both Houses concerning the King’s marriage. LJ, XI, 252, in extenso.

/55: 13 May 1662. Proviso in the Militia bill. Ibid 458, in extenso.

/56: 16 May 1662. Another proviso in the same. Ibid 464, in extenso.

/57: 19 May 1662. Draft statement of the privilege of Peers concerning Money Bills. Ibid, in extenso.

/58: 31 May 1661. Message from HC concerning a fast. Ibid 269, in extenso.

/59: 30 July 1661. Draft HL Protestation, with amendments, concerning their privileges regarding Money Bills. Ibid 328, in extenso.

/60: 20 December 1661. List of bills receiving the Royal Assent. Ibid 358.

/61: 22 February 1661/2. Draft Report of the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas concerning Yarmouth and Lowestoft fisheries. Ibid 392 in extenso.

/62: (a) 22 March 1587/8. Copy, in Browne’s hand, of HL refusal to read revised Hanford Estate Bill sent from HC. LJ, II, 141, in extenso.(b) 30 July 1661. Fair copy of 59 above.

/63: [1662-6]. Precedents where both Houses, jointly and apart, made Addresses to the King.

/64: 5 May 1664. Copy of HL Order for keeping open the sewer near the Parliament Office. LJ, XI, 608, in extenso.

/65: 9 November 1666. Message from HC, concerning Committee on Public Accounts. LJ, XII, 24-5, in extenso.

/66: 19 November 1666. Draft HL Order for Lord Butler to apologise to Lord Ashley for remarks reflecting on him. Ibid 31, in extenso.

/67: 28 November 1666. HL Order to Black Rod for the release of Dr Wake from custody. Signed John Browne. Ibid 37, in extenso.

/68: 5 May 1668. HL request to the King to defer Adjournment so that the House may assert its privileges. Ibid loc cit.

/70: 9 May 1668. Report of the King’s speech to both Houses concerning Skinner v the East India Company. HL Resolution and Order that proceedings concerning Skinner be erased from the records. Cf blanks in Journal. Ibid 247.

/71: 1 March 1669/70. Brief for Beckham’s Estate Bill, read 1a this day. Ibid 296.

/72: 18 March 1669/70. Abstract of Deeping Fens Bills, read 1a this day. Ibid 313.

/73: Nd. Draft Declaration of both Houses concerning the government of the Church of England.

/74: 14 July 1643. Draft letter from both Houses to the Lords and Commissioners for the Conservation of the Peace concerning the Committee to be sent to Scotland. Lj, VI, 131.

/75: 8 March 1672/3. Draft report, in Browne’s hand, of the King’s Answer to the Address against the increase of popery. LJ, XII, 549, in extenso.

/76: Nd. Parliament’s answer to the States General’s propositions.

Braye Ms 55: A continuation of Braye MSS 53-4

/77: Nd. List, in Browne’s hand, of ships in the navy. Cf Braye Ms 3, ff 150-73.

/78: Nd. ‘Instructions by the Earl of Montrose, Lord Napier, Lords of Keire and Blackhall’, satirical in tone.

/79: [post 1660]. The case of William Whitehead of Winchester, King’s Messenger. Seeks redress for goods plundered by parliamentary forces and for money sent to Lord Hopton in 1643-4.

/80: 5 May 1640. Copy, in Browne’s hand, of the King’s speech on the dissolution. LJ, IV, 81, in extenso.

/81: Nd. HC Resolution granting supply to the King.

/82: 22 July 1640. Notes in Browne’s hand of payment of ‘Coat and Conduct Money’ in Feltham, Hampton Wick, Sunbury and Bedfont Co Middlesex.

/83-4: 5 April 1614. notes by Elsynge of the King’s speech. Endorsed by Bowyer "My nephew Ellsyng did set this day as my clerke and tooke thes noates". Cf Maija Jansson (ed0, Proceedings in Parliament 1614 (House of Commons), 13-19.

/85: Nd. notes in Elsynge’s hand concerning arraying of soldiers temp Edward III.

/86: 1610-24. ‘A Note of the Fees paid to the Clerk of the Upper House in 1621’ etc. Relates to fees between 1610 and 1624 (Foster, The House of Lords 1603-1649, 248).

/87: Nd. Memorandum by John Corke (?).

/88: Nd. Petition of Thomas Foxe to the Earl of Rutland./89: April – June 1641. References to the Lords Journals.

/90: January 1609/10. List of ‘Necessaries for The Parliament House’, books, paper, parchment etc.

/91: 1619. ‘Fees receaved by R(obert) B(owyer) for certificates’, ie for certified copies of Private Acts.

/92: 21 January 1642/3. Receipt signed by John Browne and Richard Branthwaite for money paid by Sir Robert Pye.

/93: 13 November 1640. Receipt signed by Samuel Rowley for money paid to him by Sir Robert Pye at the request of Sir William Spencer and John Browne.

/94: [1562-5]. Copies of ‘Several Latin letters to and from Tobias Mathew Archbishop of Canterbury’ [sic for York].

/95: [1565]. Copies of ‘Some Latin Epistles to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester and Chancellor of the University of Oxford’.

/96: [? February 1647/8]. ‘The Earl of Pembroke’s speech in the house of Peers when the Seven Lords were accused of High Treason’. Cf LJ, X, 14-15, 33-4.

/97: 1 June 1685. Smith v Coleby. Draft HL Order for Coleby to put in his answer. LJ, XIV, 24, in extenso.

/98: 1 June 1685. Sir O Butler v Regem (in error). Draft HL Order for City of Rochester to put in their answer. Ibid 24, in extenso.

/99: [24 April 1641]. HC Resolutions concerning the Council of the North. CJ, II, 127, in extenso.

/100: [post 1648]. Resolutions of the gentlemen, ministers and freeholders of Co Northampton.

/101: [2 December 1641]. Copy of the King’s speech to HL on his return from Scotland. LJ, IV, 459-60, in extenso.

/102: 3 September 1645. Order, dated 2 September, of the Committee of the West concerning deserters from Colonel Massey’s troops. Reported this day. LJ, VII, 565.

/103: [post 10 March 1642/3]. Draft Order, heavily amended in Browne’s hand, for a safe conduct for the Queen, then in York, to join the King. Cf LJ, V, 644.

/104: 15 June 1646. Draft letter to the Committee of Estate of Scotland sent to HC for their concurrence. LJ, VIII, 374.

/105: 13 October 1675. Holograph speech of Charles II to both Houses. LJ, XIII, 4, in extenso.

/106: Nd. Extracts from the Bishop of Hereford’s annals of Queen Elizabeth reign.

/106 A: 28 August 1683. Notes from Bracton and other legal authorities, in Browne’s hand.

/107: 29 August 1681. Draft letter from John Browne to Mr Budd.

/108: 1737-8. Notes of receipts and debts of Mary Hurly and Jane Pinley.

/109: 4 October 1669. Letter from Samuel Ladd to James Coles.

/110: 1651-61. Notes of sums due in the county of Gloucester.

/111: 12 January 1665/6. Draft of Marriage Agreement made by John Browne on his daughter Elizabeth’s marriage to Toby Chancery of Edgcote, Co Northants.

/112: 3 November 1661. Original letter from the King of Spain to the Count of Penaranda, Captain General of the Kingdom of Naples.

/113: February 1665. Original letters Patent from Don Nizenta Gonzaga of the Council of War to Don Juan Gonzalez Salamanques.

/114: 11 March 1624. Original letter from the King of Spain to the Cardinal of Althann.

/115: 9 July 1609. Original letter from the King of Spain to Cardinal Grimani.

Braye Ms 56: 1641 The Proceedings against Thomas Earl of Strafford

Enlarged photographic copy of Braye MS 8 ff 1-28.

Braye Ms 57: The Braye-Teeling MSS 22 March 1641-1660

In 1947 a volume entitled ‘Letters and State Papers, 1642-1647’ (HMCB, 145-67) was broken up and sold in 20 lots at Messrs Sotheby’s. 51 items from this volume were purchased by Sir William Teeling MP who, in 1968, sold them to the House of Lords Record Office. These, with one additional item, were made up into a volume with a modern Record Office vellum binding.

/1a: 22 March 1641/2. Copy, in Browne’s hand, of the examination of Hugh Macmahowne on the rack. LJ, VI, 719, HMCB, 145, (slightly abbreviated).

/1b: 16 May 1642. Memorandum taken at Conference with HC about letters from York, with list of papers that were read. LJ, 67; HMCB, 145.

/2: 19 May `642. List of papers delivered to Joseph Hunscott and John Wright with their receipt for them. List printed in CJ, II, 573; HMCB, 145.

/3: 10 June 1642. Original signed deposition of Herbert Finch about proclamation concerning the militia. LJ, V, 124, in extenso. HMCB, 146.

/4: 20 June 1642. Burghley. Letter from the Earl of Exeter to Lord Wharton asking for further time to carry out his orders as his deputy lieutenants are in London. Signed and sealed. Cf LJ, V, 141-2. HMCB, 146.

/5: 4 July 1642. Resolution, dated 2 July, of commanders of the fleet at a Council of War abour the ‘James’ to obey the orders of the Earl of Warwick. Read this day. LJ, V, 179, in extenso. HMCB, 146.

/6: 4 July 1642. Letter, dated 2 July, from Captain Richard Fogg to the Earl of Warwick. Seal. Read this day. Ibid, loc cit, in extenso. HMCB, 146.

/7: 4 July 1642. Letter, dated 2 July, from Captain Baldwin Wake to the Earl of Warwick. Seal. Read this day. Ibid, 180, in extenso. HMCB, 146.

/8: 4 July 1642. Letter, dated 2 July, from Sir John Mennes to the Earl of Warwick. Seal. Read this day. Ibid, 180, in extenso. HMCB, 146.

/9: 18 July 1642. Hull. Letter, dated 13 July, from Sir John Hotham, Peregrine Pelham and John Alured to William Lenthall, Speaker of HC, concerning state of garrison at Hull. Seal. Read this day. Ibid, 217, in extenso. HMCB, 146.

/10: 5 August 1642. Burlington Bay. Letter, unsigned, written aboard the Unicorne to Sir John Hotham, governor of Hull. Seal. Cf Letter of Thomas Trenchfield. LJ, V, 3114. HMCB, 146.

/11: 22 August 1642. Colchester. Letter from Major Thomas Wade to Harbotle Grimston, MP, Recorder of Colchester, concerning the rifling of the house of Sir John Lucas. Seal. HMCB, 146-7 (slightly abbreviated).

/12: 8 September 1642. Sherborne. Copy of letter, dated 6 September, from the Earl of Bedford, Col Denzil Holles and Col Essex to the Lord General asking for troops to be sent to them. Read this day, LJ, V, 343; CJ, II, 758. HMCB, 147-8, in extenso.

/13: 7 September 1642. Stubbington. Copy of letter from John Fielden, Sir William Lewis and Richard Norton to the Lord General concerning the surprise of Southsea Castle and surrender of Portsmouth.. LJ, V, 343. HMCB, 148-9, in extenso (first half only). Cf Rushworth, III, i, 683-4.

/14: 7 September 1642. Copy of Articles for the surrender of Portsmouth. Ibid, loc cit.

/15: 10 October 1642. Copy, in Browne’s hand, of letter from both Houses to Sir John Bankes, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, enclosing copies of the treaty agreed between the Commissioners of England and Scotland, to be given to the King. HMCB, 149.

/16: 22. 12 November 1642. The Hague. Copy of letter to [Sir Edward Nicholas] concerning reinforcements for the King from the Netherlands. Read, 26 November. LJ, V, 461, in extenso. HMCB, 149.

/17: 31 December 1642. Copy, in Browne’s hand, of a commission given at Kilkenny from the Supreme Council of the Confederate Catholics in Ireland, appointing Captain Francis Oliver to command a ship called St Michael the Archangel. Cf CJ, III, 99. HMCB, 149.

/18: [March 1643. Oxford]. Copy of a letter to the Speaker (?) concerning negotiations between the parliamentary Commissioners and the King. HMCB, 149-50, in extenso. Cf LJ, V, 654.

/19: [end of 1643?]. List of impeachments brought up from HC, February 1640/1 – 13 November 1643. HMCB, 150.

/20: 21 December 1643. Arundel. Copy of a letter from Sir William Waller to HL concerning his defeat of the enemy. LJ, VI, 350, in extenso (first part). HMCB, 150, in extenso (second part).

/21: 29 December 1643. St Albans. Letter from the Earl of Bedford to the Speaker of HL, concerning his surrender to the Lord General. LJ, VI, 356, in extenso. HMCB, 150.

/22: 6 August 1644. Copy of instructions, purporting to be from the King, to Richard Harding to deliver letter to the Earl of Essex to induce him to join the King. HMCB, 153. Cf Rushworth, III, ii, 710.

/23: 24-26 September 1644. Copy of examinations of Col Barclay and Richard Deane, Comptroller of the Ordinance, concerning the conduct of Col Butler. HMCB, 153. Cf Rushworth, III, ii, 710-11.

/24: 24 January 1644/5. Letter from both Houses to the States of Holland thanking them for contribution for relief of Irish protestants. Signed Grey of Wark, Speaker of the House of Peers pro tem and Wm Lenthall, Speaker of the Commons’ House. LJ, VII, 155, in extenso. HMCB, 155.

/25: 25 October 1644. Buckleberry Heath. Copy of letter from A Johnston and J Crewe, Commissioners with the army, to both Houses, concerning the movements of both armies near Newbury. HMCB, 155, in extenso.

/26: 3 July 1645. Derby House. Letter from A Johnston and R Barclay to the Speaker of HL, enclosing letter (missing) from the Scots Commissioners. Seal. LJ, VII, 475, in extenso. HMCB, 158 )text of postscript).

/27: 3 September 1645. Draft letter from HL to Sir Thomas Fairfax concerning deserters from Col Massey’s troops. LJ, VII, 565. HMCB, 159. Cf Braye Ms 55/102.

/30: 9 September 1645. Derby House. Letter, dated 8 September, from the Committee of both Kingdoms enclosing 29 above. LJ, VII, 572. HMCB, 159.

/31: 19 September 1645. Draft report (with amendments) drawn up by Lord North and Lord Roberts concerning charge of treason against Lord Hunsdon. LJ, VII, 584, in extenso. HMCB, 163.

/32: 21 October 1645. HL Order to John Browne to return certain papers to Leicester Devereux. At foot is receipt for papers dated 7 November. LJ, VII, 654. HMCB, 164.

/33: [24 April 1641]. List of subscriptions of 19 Lords for the relief of the army in Berwick. LJ, IV, 226. HMCB, 164.

/34-6: 13-15 October 1646. Printing to the Earl of Loudoun’s speeches.

/34: 14 October 1646. Copy of examination of Lawrence Chapman. CJ, IV, 695. HMCB, 164.

/35: 15 October 1646. Copy of examinations of Samuel Pecke and Anne Griffin. Ibid loc cit.

/36: 13 October 1647 (sic for 1646). Earl of Loudoun’s warrant for printing. Ibid loc cit.

/37-43: 14 November 1646 – January 1646-7. Papers relating to negotiations between the Marquess of Ormonde and the Parliamentary Commissioners, for the surrender of Dublin etc. Cf Braye MS 46/58-93.

/37: [January 1646/7]. Copy of paper from Sir Thomas Wharton and Major Richard Salwey describing the journey of the Commissioners to Ireland, 26 October – 15 November 1646. HMCB, 165 (abbreviated version).

/38: 14 November 1646. Copy of letter from Lord Ormonde to the Commissioners enclosing safe-conduct for them HMCB, 165.

/39: [January 1646/71]. Continuation of 37 above to 17 November. HMCB, 165, in extenso.

/40: 17 November 1646. Copy of permission from Ormonde for soldiers to re-embark when the Commissioners so directed. HMCB, 165.

/41: 17 November 1646. Dublin. Copy of the Commissioners’ undertaking concerning the conduct of the soldiers who had landed in Ireland. HMCB, 165.

/42: [January 1646/7]. Copy of paper from Wharton and Salway concerning the Commissioners’ actions after the failure of the treaty of Dublin. HMCB, 165.

/43: 11 January 1646/7. Copy of narrative by Wharton concerning the cipher agreed upon between Lord Ormonde and the Commissioners. Calendared in HMCB, 165-6.

/44: 27 January 1646/7. Draft of letter from both Houses to the Parliament of Scotland. LJ, VII, 691-2, in extenso. HMCB, 166.

/45: [January or February 1746/7]. Copy of letter (damaged from one of the Irish Commissioners to the Speaker of HL. HMCB, 167, in extenso.

/46: 11 May 1647. Holdenby. Copy of examination of John Browne, servant of Mr Ashburnham, concerning cipher letter from the latter to the King. LJ, IX, 190, in extenso. HMCB, 167.

/47: 11 May 1647. Holdenby. Copy of examination of Mrs Mary Cave concerning the above. Ibid loc cit, in extenso.

/48: 12 May 1647. Holdenby. Copy of letter from the Earl of Denbigh and Lord Montagu, Commissioners, enclosing Ashburnham’s letter. Ibid, 189, in extenso. HMCB, 167.

/49: 12 June 1647. Copy of letter from the Mayor, Aldermen and Commons of London to the Commanders of the Army concerning its approach towards London. Rushworth, IV, i, 557-08, in extenso. HMCB, 167.

/50: 23 June 1647. St Albans. Copy of letter from Sir Thomas Fairfax to Alderman Warner and the rest of the Committee sent from London to the Army. Calendared in HMCB, 167.

/51: 22 September 1647. Declaration of Thomas Andrews, Alderman, concerning his subscription in a voyage undertaken by the East India Company. Calendared in HMCB, 167.

/52: 1 May 1660. Printed Declaration of the General Convention of Ireland against the High Court of Justice which condemned the King. HMCB, no ref.

Braye Ms 58: Braye-Teeling MSS
/A: Photocopies of Braye MS 57. Identical except that No 52 has been placed first and no 1a is last.

/B: Typescript of above.

Braye Ms 59: Robert Bowyer’s Parliamentary Diary (HC),

21 January 1605/6 – 24 March 1605-6
A MS of 36 folios, in a modern Record Office binding. Inscribed on the first page ‘Liber primus’. This is Book I of the original Ms Diary of Robert Bowyer, MP for Evesham, later Clerk of the Parliaments (1609-21). The entries in this book are printed in DH Willson (ed), The Parliamentary Diary of Robert Bowyer, 1606-7 (University of Minnesota, 1931, 1-90. The original contains deletions and side-headings by Bowyer not given in the edition, as well as a small amount of additional un-deleted material. Bowyer particularly noted points of procedure in his valuable account of Commons debates. HMCB, no ref.

REEL 14
Braye Ms 60: Robert Bowyer’s Parliamentary Diary (HC), 18 November 1606 – 3 July 1607
A MS of 60 folios, in a modern Record Office binding. Inscribed on the first page ‘Liber Tertius’. This is Book 3 of Bowyer’s original MS Diary. The original Book 2 is not known to have survived but there is a copyist’s version of it and of Book 3 in BL Harleian MSS 4945. Book 2 and the copyist’s version of Book 3, 18 November, 1606-18 May 1607, are printed in DH Willson, op cit, 91-294. The original again contains deletions and side-headings which are not reproduced in the edition. HMCB, no ref.

Braye Ms 61: Scribbled Book of Proceedings in the House of Lords,

24 February 1609/10 – 8 May 1610
A MS of 46 folios, in a modern Record Office binding, titled on spine ‘Bowyer’s HL Minutes’. This is the earliest surviving ‘scribbled book. giving detailed debates both in the House and in committees of the whole. the ‘scribbled book’ included other details not recorded in the Journal (see ER Foster (ed), Proceedings in Parliament 1610, I House of Lords (Yale University Press, 1966), XXV). The ‘scribbled book’, omitting material substantially the same as the Journal and some deleted matter, is printed in Proceedings in Parliament 1610, op cit, 177-240. HMCB, no ref. Cf Braye MSS 16-20, 22-25, 90, 103.

Braye Ms 62: Committee Appointments Books, HL,

14 February 1609/10 – 16 July 1610
A MS of 47 folios (including blanks) in a modern Record Office binding. This is the earliest surviving book of committee appointments giving the names of committee members and date and place of meeting. The series continues in HLRO from 1621. Folios 189-90 contain formulary relating to messages between the Houses and the Royal Assent. HMCB, no ref.

Braye Ms 63: Book of Journal Extracts, HL, 5 February – 21 March 1620/1
A MS of 15 folios, in a modern Record Office binding. The extracts are in John Browne’s hand. Some entries are more detailed than the Journal. HMCB, no ref.

Braye Ms 64: Book of Journal Extracts, Hl,

2 May 1621 – 8 February 1621/2
A MS of 105 folios, in a modern Record Office binding. HMCB, no ref.

Braye Ms 65: Nd. John Browne’s Book of Procedure
A MS of 6 folios, plus blanks, in a modern Record Office binding. The treatise is in seven sections: First, Second and Third Days of Parliament; Proceedings on Bills; Proceedings in Judicature; the Royal Assent and Writs of Error, 1621. It appears to be based on "The moderne forme of the Parliaments of England" attributed to Henry Elsynge (ed CS Sims, American Historical Review, LIII (1948), 288-305). HMCB, no ref.

Braye Ms 66: Draft of the Parliament Roll, 19-27 February 1623/4
A MS of 16 folios, in a modern Record Office binding. The draft is in the hand of Henry Elsynge, with many deletions and insertions. HMCB, no ref.

Braye Ms 67: [1604-21] Protestations of the Commons
A MS of 24 folios, in a modern Record Office binding. The Protestations comprise; (i) 20 June 1604. The Form of Apology and Satisfaction. CJ I, 243. W Petyt, Jus Parliamentarium (1741), 227-43, in extenso; JP Kenyon, ed The Stuart Constitution 1603-1688 (1986), 29-35 (extracts). (ii) 18 December 1621. The Commons’ Protestation.. Copy in Browne’s hand of the Protestation which James I tore out of the Commons Journal. CJ, I, 668. Rushworth, I, 53, in extenso; Kenyon, op cit, 42-3, in extenso. HMCB, no ref.

Braye Ms 68: March 1623/4. HL Minutes
A MS of 10 folios, in a modern Record Office binding comprising copies of (i) 5 March 1623/4. Advice of both Houses to the King concerning treaties with Spain and the King’s Answer. Read 8 March. LJ, III, 250-1, in extenso. (ii) 23 March 1623/4. the King’s Declaration to both Houses. Read 25 March. Ibid, 282-3, in extenso. HMCB, no ref.

Braye Ms 69: 12 March 1620/1. Draft Journal, HL
A MS of four folios, in a modern Record Office binding. This Draft Journal was made by Elsynge on the first day he presided at the Table. Endorsed "My first draught which I shewed to the Lords Subcommittees and was ordered to make a newe draught recyting the particulars more at large, which I dyd". HMCB, no ref.

Braye Ms 70: 12-17 March 1623/4. HL Address to the King and Royal Reply
A MS of six folios, in a modern Record Office binding. In Latin, apparently in Archbishop Laud’s hand. Possibly a draft for the Parliament Roll. Address dated 12-13 March and Reply 17 March. LJ, III, 259-61, 265-6 (English version). HMCB, no ref.

Braye Ms 71: 21 February 1623/4. HL Minutes
A MS of 30 folios, in a modern Record Office binding. Copies of speeches of the Speaker of HC, and of the Lord Keeper on the Speaker’s presentation and approval by the King. With many corrections and annotations by Elsynge. LJ, III, 211-13, in extenso. HMCB, no ref.

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Braye Ms 72: 19 February 1623/4. HL Minutes
A MS of 12 folios, in a modern Record Office binding. Draft of the King’s Speech at the opening of Parliament with many corrections and annotations by Elsynge. LJ, III, 209-10, in extenso (with many verbal differences). HMCB, no ref.

Braye Ms 73: 12-25 February 1623/4. HC Journal
A MS of 10 folios, in a modern Record Office binding. The Journal is in the hand of John Wright, senior, Clerk of the Commons. It differs from the text of the Original Commons Journal vol 12, also in John Wright’s hand (printed in CJ, I, 670-4) and of the Original Commons Journal vol 13 (starting 23 February) in the hand of John Wright, junior (printed in CJ), I, 715-18). The Braye MS is, in places, a fuller version of proceedings than that given in vols 12 and 13 of the Original Journals. HMCB, no ref.

Braye Ms 74: 17 March 1627/8. Clerk’s Roll of Peers
A MS of 17 folios, in a modern Record Office binding. List of Temporal Peers in order of precedence, annotated by Elsynge with the dates of taking the Oath. HMCB, no ref.

Braye Ms 75: 4 August 1624. Sir John Coke’s Speech to both Houses at Oxford
A MS of nine folios, plus blanks, in a modern Record Office binding. Draft report, with corrections, in Elsynge’s hand of Coke’s speech. LJ, III, 470-1, in extenso; Proceedings in Parliament 1625, op cit, 133-5, in extenso. HMCB, no ref.

Braye Ms 76: [1628]. The State of the bills, 3 and 4 Car 1
A MS of six folios, in a modern Record Office binding. Clerk’s notes on the progress of various Bills. HMCB, no ref.

Braye Ms 77: Draft Journal of the House of Lords, 12-27 May 1679
A MS of 21 folios, plus blanks, in a modern Record Office binding. The Draft Journal is in Browne’s hand and is inscribed ‘Minute Booke begun the 12th May 1679’. Cf Braye MSS 11-15 and 26-44. HMCB, 125.

Braye Ms 78: The Habeas Corpus, 1627
A volume of 116 folios, in a modern Record Office vellum binding. It contains ‘The Habeas Corpus or the proceedings att the Kings Bench Barr betweene the Kinge and divers of his Subjects Imprisoned in Michaelmas Terme … 1627’. A copy of proceedings in ‘the Five Knights Case’. The text is close to that printed in TB Howell, State Trials, III (1816), cols 1-59. HMCB, 124.

Braye Ms 79: Elizabethan Transcripts
Photographic copy of a volume of 21 folios, preserved at Stanford Hall. It contains:-s
ff 3-6: 15 May 1596. Greenwich. ‘Instructions for our Cozen the E of Essex and L Howard our High Admiral how to use themselves for execution of the commission given to them by us for some service to be done against the common enimie’, from Queen Elizabeth I.

ff 7-14: Nd. A paper beginning: ‘There are two questions proposed. The first is if the government of a stranger be more to be desired than that of a home borne Prince. The other if it be better for a Subject to be under the government of a great Monarch or of a little Prince’.

ff 15-19: Nd. ‘An epistle dedicatory of Lord Henry Howarde in the beginninge of a booke called "The Exhortations of Charles the Fift to his sonne King Phillipp"…’

ff 20-1: Nd. A brief treatise ‘Of the five periods of 500 yeares through the course of our Englishe History from Brute to Queen Elizabeth’. HMCB, 110.

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Braye Ms 80: Chronological List of Private Acts, 1510-1589
Photographic copy of Braye MS 97. HMCB, 124.

Braye Ms 81: 2 May 1526. Draft Message from Charles I

A MS of two folios, plus blanks, in a modern vellum binding. Draft of Message from the King concerning the Earl of Bristol’s charge against the Duke of Buckingham. Includes a substantial deleted section not entered in the Journal. LJ, III, 579-80. HMCB, no ref.

Braye Ms 82: 1624-6. Notes of Proceedings, HL
A MS of four folios, plus blanks, in a modern vellum binding. Schedule, in Browne’s hand, of proceedings in the cases of the Earl of Middlesex 16 April – 14 May 1624 and the Earl of Bristol 15 May – 14 June 1626. HMCB, no ref.

Braye Ms 83: Draft Journal of the House of Lords,

21 October – 20 November 1680
A MS of 48 folios, plus blanks, in a modern vellum binding. The Draft Journal is in Browne’s hand and is inscribed ‘The Minute Journall Booke begun 21st of October 1680’. Cf Braye MSS, 11-15, 26-44, 77. HMCB, 125.

Braye Ms 84: [1606-10]. Petitions of Grievances, etc, HC
A volume of 44 folios, in contemporary vellum covers. HMCB, 124.
- ff 2-10: 14 May 1606. Copy of HC Petition of Grievances to the King. Cf CJ, I, 267-309 and Harleian Ms, 6846, ff 201-7 (for preamble).
- ff 11-15: 19 November 1606. Copy of Memorial of Resolutions taken by James I in answer to the Petition of Grievances. CJ, I, 316-18, in extenso.
- ff 16: Blank
- ff 17-26: 7 July 1610. Copy of HC, Petitions of Grievances to the King. CJ, I, 447. ER Foster, Proceedings in Parliament 1610, II, 254-71, in extenso’ W Petry, Jus Parliamentarium, op cit, 318-36, in extenso (some variations in order and contents).
- f 27: 10 July 1610. Copy of the King’s Answer to Four Grievances. LJ, II, 639, in extenso.
- f 28: Blank
- ff 29-30: 16 July 1610. Fourteen Articles of reformation recommended by his Majesty. CJ, I, 450. Foster, Proceedings in Parliament 1610, op cit, II, 279-82 in extenso (with some variations).
- ff 31-5: 26 March – 21 July 1610. Copy of HC Memorial concerning the Great Contract, read 23 July. LJ, II, 550-2, in extenso.
- f 36: Blank
- ff 37-41: 23 July 1610. Copy of the King’s Answer concerning Grievances. LJ, II, 648-60, in extenso.
- ff 43-4: Blank

Braye Ms 85: [1667-70] The State of the Public Accounts, HL etc
A volume of 50 folios, in contemporary vellum covers. HMCB, 124.
- f 1: Title page
- ff 2-6: Blank
- ff 7-39: ’25 [sic for 26] October 1669. The State of the Publicke Accounts presented to the Lords in Parliament by the Commissioners that sate at Brook House’. Cf Main Papers, 26 October 1669, calendared in HMC 8th Rept App No 213 LJ, XII, 255-8.
- ff 40-2: [1167]. Transcript of Roos Illegitimation Act, 18 & 19 Car II, No 21.
- ff 42v-3: [1670]. Transcript of Roos Marriage Act, 22 Car II, no 14.
- ff 44-50: Blank

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Braye Ms 86: [1639-47] Book of Journal Extracts, HL and HC
A volume of 180 folios, in contemporary vellum covers. HMCB, 187. The extracts, which are not in strict chronological order, are in Browne’s hand. They relate chiefly to the years 1640 and 1641 and in large part to the trial of the Earl of Strafford. There are also copies of letters from the Earls of Essex and Manchester and others which are not fully entered in the Journals. the volume is numbered III but volumes I and II do not appear to have survived.

Braye Ms 87: Nd. Book of Precedents
A volume of 17 folios plus blanks, in contemporary vellum covers. The precedents are mainly from the Rolls of Parliament (1377 onwards) and refer to Impeachment; the Commons part in Judgment; Grants of Fifteenths and Tenths, etc ff 13-17 relate to the case in Star Chamber, Attorney-General v Walter Long, 5 Car I. HMCB, no ref.

Braye Ms 88: 13 April – 5 May 1640. The Short Parliament, Journal Extracts, HL
A MS of 35 pp in a modern Record Office binding. The extracts, in Browne’s hand, consist chiefly of reports of speeches by the King, Lord Keeper and Speaker and of Conferences with HC. The wording closely follows that of the Journal. HMCB, no ref.

Braye Ms 89: 17 March – 26 June 1628. Journal Book, HC
A volume of 429 folios, plus blanks, in a calf binding. It bears the long title ‘A journall booke conteyninge true Relations of the most important weighty affaires donne and handled in the Commons House of Parliament in the Parliament holden at Westminster in the third and fowerth yeres of the Raigne of King Charles: together with the true copies of all the Arguments made concerning the petition of Right, all which Arguments as well as the Petition itselfe and the Kings full answere therunto are upon Record in the House of Commons’. This is a collection of speeches (not an account of proceedings) of the Commons in 1628 which differs from many others in that its arrangement is not chronological buy by subject, with special emphasis on the Petition of Right. Excerpts from this volumes, where they provide meaningful variants, are printed in Proceedings in Parliament 1628, op ci, I, 33 etc. HMCB, no ref.

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Braye Ms 90: Scribbled Book of Proceedings in the House of Lords,

25 October 1641 – 14 January 1641/2.
A volume of 185 folios, in contemporary vellum covers. The Scribbled Book is in Browne’s hand with many deletions and insertions. Cf Braye MS 16-20, 22-25, 61, 103. HMCB, 125.

Braye Ms 91: 1593 and 1601. Commons Journals
Photographic copy of Braye MS 98

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Braye Ms 92: Some Parliament Passages. Annis 1621 et 1625
A small quarto volume of 137 folios, plus blanks in contemporary vellum covers. HMCB, 124.
- ff 1-9: A version of the medieval Modus Tenendi Parliamenturm. Latin.
- ff 10-137: Copies of 67 speeches in both Houses and other papers for 1621-1625. Most of these are also transcribed in John Browne’s Commmonplace Book (Braye MS 96), calendared in HMCB, 119-24.

Braye Ms 93: [1510-1645]. Fragments Parliamentaria. Privileges and Rights of Parliament and Orders
An octavo volume of 180 folios, bound in calf. Extracts, in Browne’s hand, of proceedings in HL and HC concerning privileges and procedural matters, arranged chronologically. HMCB, no ref.

Braye Ms 94: Extracts, Edward 1 to Elizabeth

Photographic copies of documents in a volume now preserved in Yale University Library (Osborn MSS). HMCB, no ref.
- ff 6-43: Lists of Summons to Parliament, 23 Edward I – Edward III.
- ff 45-53: List of Parliaments and notes on the Parliament Rolls, 4 Edward II – 22 Edward IV, in (?) Elsynge’s hand.
- ff 55-73: Extracts from the HL Journals, 1 Edward VI – 4 & 5 Philip and Mary, annotated by (?) Elsynge.
- ff 74-116: Similar Journal extracts and notes, 1-38 Henry VIII.
- ff 119-28: Similar extracts and notes, 1-43 Elizabeth I.
- ff 131-5: ‘Customs and privileges of the neither House of Parliament’. Notes in Bowyer’s hand of the HC proceedings 1571-86.
- ff 137-40: Copy of Patent of the Constableship of England, 12 Edward III; notes on Magna Carta; copy of Peer’s Writ of summons and miscellaneous notes in Browne’s hand.
- ff 142-8: [post 1628]. Copy, in Browne’s hand of ‘Remembrances for Order and Decencie to be kepte in the Upper House of Parliament’. (Standing Orders, HL), the latest order dated 1628,
- f 150: Table of Royal Responses to Bills, from the Parliament Rolls.
- f 152: Extract, 3 Jac I ‘at the end of that Journal’; comprises formulae, in Browne’s hand, for certification of Private Acts and Royal Assent to Public and Private Acts, etc.
- ff 154-71: [post 1581]. ‘Observacons of the house of Commons of Parliament concerninge the demeanor and government of the said house consisting of the particulars followinge’. A version of William Lambarde’s notes on the Procedures and Privileges of the House (1584), see edition by PL Ward (House of Commons Library Document no 10, 1977){, 47-8.

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Braye Ms 95: Parliamentary 1599-1641
Photographic copies of documents in a volume now preserved in Yale University Library (Osborn MSS). HMCB, no ref.
- ff 2-7: 25 March 1599. Richmond. Instructions for the Earl of Essex, Earl Marshal, concerning Ireland. CSP Domestic 1598-1601, 172.
- ff 7-11: 8 – 30 May 1621/ Extracts, in Browne’s hand, from the HL Journal. Cf LJ, III, 116-43.
- ff 11-13: 23 (sic for 25) March 1624. Latin version of the King’s Speech. Ibid. 282-3.
- ff 13-16: 1603-26. Notes by Browne on Messages between the Houses.
- ff 17-18: 4 August 1625. Notes by Elsynge of speeches by Lord Conway and Sir John Cook. Cf LJ, III, 471.
- ff 18-19: 1625-8. Notes by Browne of Judgments on delinquents.
- ff 21-2: 15 June 1626. HL Order for fees to be paid by Peers to the Clerk and his Assistants. Signed H Elsynge. Cf LJ, III, 682. List of the Lords who have not yet paid.
- ff 24-5: 13-18 June 1628. Notes of Journal references to a Commission to levy money by Impositions. LJ, III, 853-62.
- f 25: 16 June 1628. Copy of HL Message to the King concerning suppressing Dr Mainwaring’s books. Ibid¸859, in extenso.
- ff 27-31: 23 January 1640/1. Copy of the King’s Speech to both Houses in the Banqueting House, Whitehall. LJ, IV, 142, in extenso.
- f 32: 26 January 1640/1. The Scots Answer to the Lords Commissioners’ Propositions for a treaty, read 27 January. Signed Ad Blair. Ibid 145, in extenso.
- f 33: 26 January 1640/1. The Scots Answer to the HC concerning an alliance, read 27 January. Ibid loc cit.
- f 35: 26 January 1640/1. Copy, in Browne’s hand, of the Lords Commissioners’ Propositions, read 27 January. Ibid, loc cit.
- ff 36-40: 23 January 1640/1. Another copy (with verbal differences) of the King’s Speech, cf ff 27-31 above.
- ff 41-2: 20 January 1640/1. HL Resolutions concerning Shio money. Ibid. 136, in extenso.
- ff 43-4: 20 January 1640/1. Another copy of above.
- ff 45-6: [? 9 March] 1640/1. ‘Index of the Heads of the Scots Commissioners demands’, in Browne’s hand.
- f 47: [15 February 1640/1]. Notes in Browne’s hand of proceedings, HL. LJ, IV, 162-3.
- ff 48-9: 8 February 1640/1. Notes on the jurisdiction of the Court of Admiralty. Ibid. 155.
- ff 49-50: 10 February 1640/1. Copy, in Browne’s hand, of the Scots Commissioners Eighth Demand. Read 11 February. Ibid. 159, in extenso.
- ff 51-2: 5 February 1640/1. Copy, in Browne’s hand, of the Answer of the Scots Commissioners concerning the assistance granted to them by both Houses. Read 6 February. Ibid. 163, in extenso.
- f 53: 10 February 1640/1. introduction of Lord de Grey. Ibid. 157, in extenso. Note (1674) on the precedence of Lord Dacre.
- f 55: 16 February 1640/1. King’s Speech to both Houses in the Banqueting House on the passing of the Triennial Act. Rushworth, III, i, 188, in extenso.
- f 56: 27 February 1640/1. Note on Resolutions concerning Ship Money. Lj, IV, 173.
- f 57: 13 March 1640/1. Copy, in Browne’s hand, of HL Order concerning the Earl of Strafford’s counsel. LJ, IV, 184, in extenso.
- ff 59-70: 10 March 1640/1. Copy of the Scots Declaration concerning Uniformity of church Government. Read 14 April. Ibid. 216.
- ff 71-2: 13 March 1640/1. Report of Conference with HC concerning the trial of the Earl of Strafford. Ibid. 184, in extenso.
- f 74: 13 March 1640/1. Another copy of above.
- f 75: [12 April 1641]. Draft of Message to be delivered by Lord Steward to HC, concerning trial of Earl of Strafford. Ibid. 215, in extenso.
- f 76-7: 16 March 1640/1. Scots Commissioners paper concerning their lack of money to pay their army. Signed Ad Blair. Read 17 March. Ibid. 187, in extenso.
- f 78: [19 March 1640/1]. Notes, in Browne’s hand, of the Oath to be taken at Strafford’s trial. Ibid. 190.
- f 80: [15 March 1640/1]. Copy of the Protestation of the Great Council at York concerning levying money in Yorkshire. Ibid. 185, in extenso.
- f 82: [16 March 1640/1]. HC Protestation concerning Strafford’s trial. CJ, II, 105-6, in extenso.
- f 83: [16 March 1640/1]. Another copy of above.
- f 84: [10 April 1641]. Draft Answer of the Judges concerning witnesses at Strafford’s trial. LJ, IV, 212, in extenso.
- f 85: 29-30 April 1640. HL Motions, in Browne’s hand, concerning alleged breaches by HL of HC privileges. Ibid, 73-4.
- ff 86-7: 25 April 1640. Draft in Browne’s hand, with many amendments, of Heads for a Conference with HC. Ibid. 68-9, in extenso.
- ff 87-97: 13 April 1640. Copy of speeches by the King and the Lord Keeper (with note by Browne concerning entry in the Journal). Ibid. 46-8, in extenso.
- ff 99-107: 13 April 1640. Another copy of above.
- ff 108-112: 13 April 1640. Another copy (imperfect).
- ff 113-14: 13 April 1640. List of the Receivers and Triers of 8 May 1661. Petitions of 1640, with nams of Receivers and Triers for 1661 substituted. ibid. 48-9; LJ, XI, 244-5.
- ff 115-23: 13 April 1640. Speeches of the King and the Lord Keepers, another copy, see ff 87-112 above.
- ff 124-38: 15 April 1640. Speeches (with corrections) of the King, the Lord Keeper and the Speaker, HC (with note by Browne concerning entry in the Journal). Ibid. 50-4, in extenso.
- ff 140-7: 22 April 1640. Report by the Lord Keeper of what was delivered by him, by the King’s command, to both Houses at Whitehall yesterday (with note by Browne concerning entry in the Journal). Ibid. 62-3, in extenso.
- ff 149-55: 22 April 1640. Another copy of above.
- ff 157-8: 5 May 1640. Copy, in Browne’s hand, of Sir Henry Vane’s notes of the speeches of the Earl of Strafford and others, made at ‘a giunto of the Privy Council for the Scotch affairs’ when the question of the war with Scotland was under discussion. Read in HL on 12 April 1641. HMC 3rd Rept, App, 3, in extenso. LJ, IV, 215. Another copy in Main Papers. HMC 4th Rept, App, 26.
- ff 159-60: 5 May 1640. Another copy of above.
- ff 161-2: 21 April 1641. Copy of warrant, dated June 1640, doe collection of Coat and Conduct Money in Middlesex. Read this day. LJ, IV, 223.
- ff 163-4: 18 December 1640. Heads of the Scottish Commissioners’ demands in a letter dated 8 September 1640. Read this day. Ibid. 111-12, in extenso.
- f 166: 1640. List of Lords Spiritual and Temporal.
- ff 168-9: 3 November 1640. Copy of the King’s Speech. Rushworth, III, i, 11-12, in extenso.
- ff 170: 3 February 1640/1. HC Resolution concerning assistance to the Scots. Reports to HL 4 February. CJ, II, 78, in extenso; LJ, IV, 151.
- ff 171-2: 4 February 1640/1. Copy of the King’s Answer concerning Goodman and the Jesuits. LJ, IV, 151, in extenso.
- f 173: 11 November 1640. HC Message for impeachment of Earl of Strafford. Ibid. 88, in extenso.
- f 174: 11 November 1640. Another copy of above.
- ff 175-6: 20 November 1640. Draft Minutes of Proceedings, HL (with corrections), in Browne’s hand. Ibid. 91, in extenso.
- ff 176-7: 20 November 1640. HC Message concerning the examination of witnesses in the Earl of Strafford’s cause. Ibid. 94, in extenso.
- ff 178-9: 15 December 1640. Appeal from the Scottish Army to the Scots Commissioners for financial assistance. Read 16 December. LJ, IV, 110.
- ff 182-5: [6 May 1641]. Copy of letter from Henry Percy to the Earl of Northumberland concerning the Army Plot. Ibid. 236. Rushworth, III, i, 256-6, in extenso
- ff 185-6: 10 April 1641. Drafts, in Browne’s hand, of HL Order and Question to the judges concerning witnesses in Strafford’s trial. LJ, IV, 212.
- ff 187-8: 12 April 1641. Report of Conference with HC concerning Sir Henry Vane’s paper and the trial of Strafford. Ibid. 215, in extenso (with verbal differences).
- ff 189-91: 15 April 1641. Report of Conference with HC about allowing Strafford to have counsel. Ibid. 217-8, in extenso (with verbal differences).
- f 191: 30 April 1641. Report (in oratio recta), of the King’s Answer concerning the Irish Army. Ibid. 230, in extenso (in oratio oblliqua).
- ff 192-3: 4 May 1641. The Protestation taken by HC and sent up to HL to be taken by the Lords if they approved it. Ibid. 233-4, in extenso.
- ff 194-5: 4 May 1641. Copy, with corrections), of Denzil Holles’s speech to HL on the delivery of the Protestation, reported by the Bishop of Lincoln. Ibid. 234, Rushworth, III, i, 242-4, in extenso
- f 196: 4 May 1641. Examination of James Wadsworth concerning Sir John Suckling and troops for Portugal. Cf. CJ, II, 134.
- ff 197-8: 5-7 May 1641. HL Resolutions at the trial of Strafford. Cf Braye MS 2, ff 142-3.
- ff 199-200: 5-7 May 1641. Another copy of above.
- ff 201-2: 5-7 May 1641. Another copy of above.
- ff 204-6: 15 May – 8 July 1641. John Browne’s Diary Sheets of HL business.
- ff 206-7: 24 July 1641. Request of the Judges of the King’s Bench for HL. Directions concerning Judgments in the Star Chamber. LJ, IV, 327, in extenso.
- ff 208-9: 17 August 1641. Draft declaration (incomplete) concerning the Court of York. Ibid. 311.
- f 210: 24 August 1641. Message from the King concerning the levying of soldiers for Spain. Ibid. 374, in extenso.
- ff 211-12: 30 August 1641. HL Order for redress to the French Ambassador for assault in his house. Signed Jo Browne Cler Parliamentor. Ibid. 382, in extenso.
- ff 214: 27 August 1641. Copy of Parliamentary Ordinance for a day of thanksgiving for the conclusion of peace between England and Scotland. Ibid. 379, in extenso.
- ff 215-20: 16 December 1640. ‘Against the Lieutenant of Ireland’. A declaration of the Scottish Commissioners against the Earl of Strafford. Read 2 January 1640/1. Ibid. 123. Cf Braye MS 2, ff 96-7.
- ff 221: 30 August 1641. HC Message concerning the freeing of re-exported foreign goods from customs and subsidies. Ibid. 383, in extenso.
- ff 222-3: 9 September 1641. Draft Parliamentary Ordinance, with amendments, concerning transporting troops out of the King’s dominions. Ibid. 394, in extenso
- ff 225-6: 20 October 1641. Copy of the examination of Owen Connelly before the Lords Justices of Ireland. Read 1 November. Ibid. 415-16, in extenso.
- ff 227-9: 27 October 1641. Pym’s Report of a Conference for depriving the impeached bishops of their votes. Read 28 October. ibid. 407-8, in extenso.
- ff 229: 29 October 1641. Copy of the examination of Sir John Conyers concerning the Second Army Plot. Cf Braye Ms 2, ff 207-8.
- f 230: 30 October 1641. Copy of the examination of Captain William Legge concerning the above. Cf Braye Ms 2, ff 211-12.
- ff 232-3: 4 November 1641. Minutes of proceedings, HL relating to Ireland. Ibid. 421-3.
- ff 235-6: [12 November 1641]. Copy of letter from the Venetian Ambassador complaining of the opening of his letters. Ibid. 435-6, in extenso.
- ff 237-8: 20 December 1641. Copy of report from the Scottish Commissioners. ibid. 482, in extenso.

Braye Ms 96: [1536-1688] John Browne’s Commonplace Book
Photographic copy of a volume of 543 pp now preserved in Yale University Library (Osborn MSS). The entries are entirely in Browne’s hand. The description of the items (with a few amendments) is taken from HMCB, 119-24.
- p 1: 5 April 1614. Speech of James I in Parliament. (Parliamentary History, vol i c 1149).
- p 13: 16 April 1617. Commission from James I to Sir John Digby.
- p 15: The heads of the charge against the Earl of Oxford.
- p 16: 15 January 1620. Proceedings at the Court.
- p 17: 1621. Sir Edward Sackville’s speech in Parliament.
- p 23: February 1620 [-1]. Sir Edward Cecil’s speech in Parliament.
- p 29: 4 June 1621. Sir James Perrott’s motion in Parliament. (Part given in Parliamentary History, vol i c 1293).
- p 33: 3 December 1621. Letter from James I to the Speaker of the House of Commons. (Parliamentary History, vol i c 1326).
- p 35: 8 December 1621. Petition to be sent to the King at Newmarket. (Parliamentary History, vol i c 1323).
- p 41: 8 December 1621. Remonstrance sent to the King (Parliamentary History, vol i c 1333).
- p 46: Heads for a petition for the better execution of the laws against seminary priests and Popish recusants.
- p 48: 12 December 1621. Answer of James I to the apologetic petition of the Commons. (Parliamentary History, vol i c 1338).
- p 60: 16 December 1621. Letter from James I to Secretary Calbert. (Parliamentary History, vol i c 1350).
- p 63: 18 December 1621. Protestation of the Commons. (Parliamentary History, vol i c 1361).
- p 65: 17 December 1621. Letter from James I to the Speaker of the House of Commons. (Parliamentary History, vol i c 1355).
- p 67: 18 December 1621. Petition from the Commons. (Parliamentary History, vol i c 1359).
- p 68: 19 December 1621. The King’s answer. (Parliamentary History, vol i c 1361).
- p 69: A letter of new from NN. Gives particulars concerning the siege of Frankenthal, Lord Digby’s mission to Vienna, and his interview with Mansfeld. Lord Digby is said to be about to go to Spain.
- p 76: 14 January 1621. Vienna/ Letter from Ferdinand II to James I (Latin).
- p 76: 9 October 1621. Speech of Dr Williams, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, in the Chancery.
- p 84: November 1620. Speech of Sir Henry Yelverton, Attorney General, in the Court of Star Chamber.
- p 93: 18 June 1625. Speech of Charles I in Parliament, (a different version is given in (Parliamentary History, vol ii c 1).
- p 94: The Lord Keeper’s speech, (a different version is given in (Parliamentary History, vol ii c 3).
- p 96: 20 June 1625. Two speeches by Sir Thomas Crewe, Speaker of the Commons, and answers thereto by the Lord Keeper. (Part given in (Parliamentary History, vol ii c 3).
- p 103: 24 June 1625. Petition from both Houses to the King.
- p 110: [5] August 1625. Reasons of Sir Edward Coke on behalf of the Commons. Cf (Parliamentary History, vol ii c II).
- p 113: 4 August (sic) 1625. Speech of Charles I at Christ Church, Oxford. (Parliamentary History, vol ii c 8).
- p 114: Declaration of the King’s affairs. Parliamentary History, vol ii c 9).
- p 118: Speech of the Lord Keeper. Speech of the Duke of Buckingham. (Part given in Parliamentary History, vol ii c 25).
- p 128: The King’s answers to the sixteen remedies against the increase of Popish recusants. (Parliamentary History, vol ii c 22).
- p 132: [August 1625]. "An advertisement to a friend". The Parliament break up in discontent. The Duke of Buckingham seemed hardly excusable.
- p 134: Articles of marriage between the Elector Palatine and the Princess Elizabeth. (Latin).
- p 137: 19 April 1623. Letter from Pope Gregory XV to the Bishop of Conches, Inquisitor-General in Sain. (Latin).
- p 139: 8 July 1623. Madrid. Answer from the Prince of England to the Pope’s letter.
- p 141: 30 November 1624. Articles of marriage between the Prince of England and the sister of the King of France.
- p 148: 19 February 1623. Speech of James I in Parliament. (Parliamentary History, vol i c 1373.)
- p 151: 19 February 1623. The Lord Keeper’s speech,
- p 152: 24 February 1623. The Duke of Buckingham’s relation to both Houses.
- p 165: 21 February 1623. Speeches of the Speaker and the Lord Keeper. (A different version given in Parliamentary History, vol i c 1376.)
- p 176: 2 March 1623. Conference between the two Houses.
- p 181: Reasons offered by the Commons for breaking off the treaty for the Spanish match, and that for the ?Palatinate.
- p 183: 5 November 1622. Letter from the King of Spain to Conde Olivares. (English).
- p 184: 8 November 1622. Answer of the Conde Olivares. (English).
- p 188: 4 March 1623. Collections out of Sir Richard Weston’s report to the Commons.
- p 191: Collections out of Secretary Cottington’s report.
- p 194: Message of both Houses delivered to the King at Theobald’s by the Archbishop of Canterbury. (Parliamentary History, vol i c 1387.)
- p 195: 5 (sic) March 1623. The King’s answer thereto. (Parliamentary History, vol i c 1387.)
- p 200: 11 March 1623. the Prince’s speech to a Committee of both Houses.
- p 202: 14 March 1623. Speech of James I at Whitehall. (Parliamentary History, vol i c 1395.)
- p 207: 15 or 17 March 1623. Speech of the Duke of Buckingham to both Houses in the Painted Chamber.
- p 210: 17 March 1623. Letter from the King, read in Parliament by the Lord Keeper.
- p 211: Articles to be seen into speedily.
- p 212: 23 March 1623. Petition from both Houses to the King. (Parliamentary History, vol i c 1398.)
- p 214: The King’s answer thereto. (A different version is given in Parliamentary History, vol i c 1403.)
- p 216: 28 May 1624. Speech of Sir Thomas Crewe. (Parliamentary History, vol i c 1498.)
- p 223: Articles of the league between the Kings of France and England, the Commonwealth of Venice and the Duke of Savoy.
- p 225: The Earl of Northumberland’s discourse of the proceedings between himself and Sir Francis Vere.
- p 231: 6 May [1536]. Letter from Anne Boleyn to Henry VIII found among Cromwell’s papers. Dated from the Tower.
- p 234: 27 May 1571. Message from Queen Elizabeth to certain members of the House of Commons.
- p 235: 25 March 1610. Proclamation for calling in Dr Cowell’s Interpreter.
- p 237: August 1648. Letter from Sir John Maynard to one about the King, concerning the state of affairs in London.
- p 239: Paper given by Charles I to the Princes Elizabeth when she came to take leave of him, containing the speech which he would have made in Westminster Hall on Monday the 22nd of January 1648[-9], if he had been allowed to speak further about his reasons.
- p 243: Queries propounded by sundry clergy of the diocese of London concerning the oath enjoined by the 6th Canon.
- p 247: Extracts from a book in the hand of Anderson, Lord Chief Justice, concerning commitments without cause shown.
- p 252: Declaration by the Assembly of Divines, and by authority of Parliament, against the blasphemous opinions in Mr Archer’s book.
- p 256: 15 February 1641. Protestation of the Doctors of Divinity at Oxford concerning the oaths of supremacy and allegiance.
- p 257: 25 February 1643. Protestation of Queen Henrietta Maria at her departure from Scheveling. Rushworth, III, ii, 163.
- p 259: April 1643. Answer from both Houses to the King. Intended, but not sent.
- p 264: The oath of the Clerk of the Parliament.
- p 264: 1647. Proposals sent by the General and Council of the Army to the Commissioners of Parliament.
- p 277: 14 January 1644. Commission to Lord Inchiquin to be President of Munster.
- p 280: Instructions for the President of Munster.
- p 283: Manifesto of Charles I concerning the Palatinate.
- p 288: 31 March 1645. Propositions of the Commissioner of the Queen of Sweden to the English Parliament.
- p 292: Answer of the Parliament thereto. Same day.
- p 296: 24 January 1645. Letter from the Commissioners for the Parliament of Scotland to the Speaker of the House of Peers.
- p 303: Forms of direction for royal letters.
- p 304: List of cathedral and collegiate churches in England and Wales.
- p 306: Act for erecting a High Court of Justice for the trial of James, Earl of Cambridge, Henry, Earl of Holland, and others.
- p 308: 6 March 1648. Warrant for the execution of the Earl of Cambridge.
- p 310: 4 August 1622. Instructions for Viscount Falkland, Lord Deputy of Ireland.
- p 321: Statutes of the Order of the Garter, as reformed by Henry VIII, with additions by Philip and Mary.
- p 355: 30 March 1661. Grant by Charles II to Sir Richard Browne, Bart, of the office of Muster-Master General.
- p 356: Table of the revenues and tenths of the different bishoprics in England and Wales.
- p 358: Notes concerning proceedings in Chancery.
- p 361: Queries concerning Convocation.
- p 364: 30 August 1662. Letter from the King of France to the Pope. (English).
- p 364: 30 August 1662. Letter from the same to certain Cardinals.
- p 366: 1663. Challenge sent by the Earl of Middlesex to the Earl of Bridgewater.
- p 367: Propositions delivered to the King by the Earl of Strafford for securing his estate and bridling parliaments.
- p 379: Letter from Sir Walter Raleigh to James I a little before his death.
- p 381: Sir Walter Raleigh’s protestation at his death.
- p 382: 8 June 1669. Letter from Gilbert, Archbishop of Canterbury, to the Bishop of London, concerning conventicles.
- p 383: 20 June 1669. Letter from Humphry, Bishop of London to the Bishop of Peterborough, concerning the same.
- P 384: 7 July 1669. Instructions concerning conventicles.
- p 385: 30 August 1662. Letter from the King of France to the Pope. (English).
- p 386: 25 January 1673. Paper brought into the House of Lords from the French Ambassador.
- p 401: Letter from the Duke of Monmouth to the Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge.
- p 402: 1673. Heads of the articles between the King of Great Britain and the States of Holland.
- p 405: Petition to the queen, for association in religion.
- p 419: Letter to the Bishops (temp Elizabeth).
- p 435: 1675. The case of M de Luzancy, a French preacher newly converted to the Protestant religion as established in England.
- p 440: 1635. Letter from the Earl of Manchester to his son, Walter Mountagu.
- p 450: Speech of Lord Lucas in Parliament, concerning a subsidy.
- p 453: Speech of the Duke of Buckingham in Parliament, concerning Protestant dissenters.
- p 455: Letter from the Earl of Shaftesbury to the Earl of Carlisle.
- p 456: Retrenchments in the King’s expenditure.
- p 457: Commission from Charles I to Thomas, Earl of Arundel, KG, to be General of the army to be sent into the north.
- p 460: 30 June 1676. List of Peers in the commission for the trial of Lord Cornwallis.
- p 461: 29 June 1677. Speech of the Earl of Shaftesbury in the Court of King’s Bench.
- p 463: Information of Sir Robert Heath, Attorney-General, against Sir Robert Cotton, and others.
- p 470: August 1637. Edinburgh. The Scots’ reasons against the Book of Common Prayer.
- p 472: Narrative of the life of John Packer, Esq, who was born at Twickenham, 12 November 1572, and died 9 February 1648.
- p 478: 1663. Petition of Gilbert, Archbishop of Canterbury to the King, against toleration of Popery.
- p 479: Petition of the Irish Bishops to Parliament, against toleration of Popery.
- p 480: Declaration by John, Bishop of Worcester.
- p 481: 1681. Speech of the Earl of Shaftesbury in Parliament in a debate on the King’s Speech. Begins – "In this grate debate". Ends – "take counsel as he thinks fit".
-p 486: 30 April 1687. Address from the Presbyterian ministers in London to the King.
- p 486: Address from the Quakers to the King.
- p 488: 4 April 1687. James II’s Declaration of Liberty of Conscience.
- p 492: 25 June 1680. Letter from the Earl of Rochester to Dr Burnet, written on his death bed.
- p 493: 27 February 1662. Reasons of the House of Commons against toleration.
- p 496: 10 June 1661. Petition of Roman Catholics to the House of Lords.
- p 499: 25 January 1680. Speech of the Earl of Essex at the delivery of the petition from certain Lords to the King.
- p501: Petition of the Duke of Monmouth and fifteen other Lords.
- p 502: Letter from Mercy Povey, in Lime Street, London, to Staffordshire, concerning the dissenters’ complaints of their persecution.
- p 506: 4 November 1687. A letter from M Fagel, Pensioner of Holland, to James Stewart, Advocate, giving the views of the Prince and Princess of Orange concerning the repeal of the penal laws, etc.
- p 513: Letter from a Jesuit in London to the College at Liege, intercepted and carried to the Prince of Orange.
- p 516: List of penal laws, etc (continued from p 498).
- p 520: Letter from Father Petre to Pere la Chaise.
- p 526: Lines to the haters of Popery (by Partridge?). Begins – "Thus t’was of old when Israel felt the rod".
- p 527: Astrological notes for the year 1688.
- p 539: 8 July 1688. Paris. Letter from Pere la Chaise to Father Petre.

Braye Ms 97: c. 1590. Chronological List of Private Acts, 1510-1589
A volume of 74 folios plus blanks in contemporary vellum covers, written in one hand. Inscribed on p 1 "this booke belonges to the Parliament Office, Henry Elsynge". Lists persons and places affected by the Acts. HMCB, 124.

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Braye Ms 98: HC Diaries, 7 March – 10 April 1593 and

27 October – 19 December 1601
A calf bound volume of 325 pp plus stubs, in the hand of John Browne. It comprises (I) an incomplete copy (with variants) of the "anonymous diary" of the 1593 Parliament (BL Cotton MS. Titus F II, the only other known copy). Pp 1-57 are torn out of the Braye copy, which consistently antedates the business of the Commons by two or three days. (ii) A copy of Hayward Townshend’s HC Journal fir 1691. At least half a dozen copies of Townshend’s Journal were made in the first quarter of the seventeenth century. This version seems to be closer to the versions in BL MSS Stowe 362 and Harleian 2283 and to Bodleian MS Rawlinson A 100 than to BL MS Egerton 2222 which Pollard considered to be the most authoritative AF Pollard, "Hayward Townshend’s Journals III. The Journal for 1601." Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, XIV, (1936-7), 150-65). HMCB, no ref.

Braye Ms 99: Journal of the House of Lords,

13 November 1629 – 30 January 1620/1
A large folio, vellum bound volume. Comprises 7 folios of entries of Writs of Summons and of Prorogation and Proxies and a List of Receivers and Triers of Petitions. LJ III, 3-7, in extenso. The remaining folios torn out. There are notes on the inside front and back covers by Henry Elsynge concerning the death of Robert Bowyer, 15 March 1620/1 and Elsynge taking the oath as Clerk of the Parliaments on 21 March. Also notes of the borrowing of subsidy Acts for printing, 19-21 March 1620/1. HMCB, no ref.

Braye Ms 100: ‘Extracts out of Exact Abridgment of Records’, 1330-1483
A small octavo, sheepskin bound volume, of 230 pp plus 150 pp blanks, written in the hand of John Browne. Front flyleaf inscribed ‘Liber Johannis Browne, Clericus Parliamentorum’. It comprises extracts from Robert Cotton’s ‘an exact abridgement of the records in the Tower of London, Edward II – Richard III, of all thee parliaments.’ (Published, revised by William Prynne, London 1657). The extracts are from the Rolls of Parliament. HMCB, no ref.

Braye Ms 101: ‘Notes Concerning Parliament’, 1327-1483
A small quarto notebook, stitched no covers, of 28 pp, plus blanks, c 1630. It contains extracts from the Rolls of Parliament, I Edward III – I Richard III. At back, 2 pp notes headed ‘Priviledges de Clergy’ (1 loose) and 2 pp (loose) of reading notes. HMCB, no ref.

Braye Ms 102: Precedent Book of extracts from the Rolls of Parliament, the Journals and other records, Edward III – James I
A calf bound folio volume, contemporary foliation 4-112, c 1630. It comprises extracts relating to the privileges of the Lords and certain procedural precedents arranged under various headings ‘Of Proxies of the Lords of Parliament’, ‘Priviledges in suits as well for their followers as for themselves dureing the Parliament’, ‘Noe Peere of the upper house to be called to answer in the lower house onlie’ etc. Front covered lined with waste from an almanac of 1630. HMCB, 198.

Braye Ms 103: Scribbled Book of Proceedings in the House of Lords,

15 January – 2 March 1641/2
A Volume of 340 pp, plus blanks, in contemporary vellum covers. ‘Liber 7’ on spine. The Scribbled Book is almost entirely in Browne’s hand with many deletions and insertions. Cf Brayee MSS 16-20, 22-25, 61 and 90. HMCB, 125.

Braye Ms 104: ‘A Catalogue of Bookes of Severall Transactions, which were Single, and are now bound up in Severall Volumes’
A calf bound folio volume of 104 pp, plus blanks, mostly in the hand of Browne (signed by him on inside cover), c 1665. The manuscript lists the contents of 74 vols which contain 1,898 separate printed pamphlets (including 269 newsletters), mainly printed c 1641-1663 but with some earlier 9including sixteenth century) pamphlets. At the end, the contents of five further vols have been added in another hand. HMCB, no ref.

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Braye Ms 105: Paper presented by the East India Company to the House of Lords, 8 February 1646/7
Photographic copy of manuscript in the University of London Library, MS 260. HMCB, 166-7

APPENDIX: HLRO Historical Collection No 238
1: Genealogical Table of the Browne Family, 1538-1725. Compiled by Miss Mary Edmond.

2 : notes on, and genealogical tables of, the families of Browne, Elsynge, Knyvett, Bowyer, Walker and others. Compiled by Miss Mary Edmond. Notes and correspondence f MF Bond concerning John Browne, 1 box.

Documents concerning Henry Elsynge, junior’s petition for the Office of Clerk of the Parliaments, 1637

1: Thomas Knyvett had the reversion of the Office of Clerk of the Parliaments after the death of his half-brother Henry Elsynge, senior (CSP Domestic 1611-18, p 198). Knyvett succeeded to the office in September 1635 but died before 7 December 1637. After Knyvett’s death, when Daniel Bedingfield became Clerk of the Parliaments, Henry Elsynge, junior, petitioned Charles I for the reversion stating that his father "had been at great charge to breed petitioner in the University of Oxford, and to train him for the said office, and almost ever since the last Parliament he has travelled in foreign parts, to gain languages, whereby he might be the more fit. On his return he found his father dead, and that one Daniel Bedingfield had procured the reversion of the office after Thomas Knivett who then enjoyed it, and is lately dead. Therefore begs the reversion after Daniel Bedingfield" CSP Domestic, Addenda 1625-49, pp 545-6).

Bedingfield died c 25 December 1637 but the office was granted on 13 March 1637/8 to John Browne (ibid 1636-7, p 534), whilst Elsynge became Clerk of the House of Commons in 1639.

2: Another Thomas Knyvett (cousin of the Clerk of the Parliaments) had expressed the hope that Elsynge might become Clerk of the Parliaments. "He doth much Labore for it, and I doe wish with all my harte he may obtaine it, for he is a very kind loving kind harted man, and suerly, if he gets it, we shall not want of a stowage whensoever we have a minde to come to London". 29 November 1637 (Th Knyvett Letters, 1620-1644, ed Bertram Schofield, Norfolk Record Society, vol xx, 1949, pp 92-3).