House of Commons: Journal

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 12 MS Add.7967
  • Dates of Creation
      1750 (circa)
  • Language of Material
      English .
  • Physical Description
      1 volume(s) 1 volume

Scope and Content

'Journal of the Commons, anno primo Caroli Regis', a manuscript transcript of two sessions, 6 February-25 March 1625 and 21 June-12 August 1625, 137 leaves. The volume has been misbound so that the second session comes first. The journal is written in at least three hands, and has corrections of scribal errors in a contemporary hand, as well as manuscript alterations and marginal instructions intended for a printer. A catalogue entry has been pasted in at the front of the volume.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Purchased from The Bookroom, Cambridge, 18 June 1974.

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