Historical collections: or, A brief account of the most remarkable transactions of the two last Parliaments held and dissolved at Westminster and Oxford. With exact lists of the members of each Parliament.

1685 OXFORD & Westminster Parliament Report LAW Politics Charles II Howard Trial

A rare, 17th-century report on the transactions and proceedings in the English and Welsh Parliament begun at Oxford in 1681. This book, 'Historical Collections', provides important information regarding English politics under the reign of Charles II, including various legal trials and beheadings! One such trial was that of William Howard, Viscount of Stafford whose trial and beheading in 1680 is explained in detail!

Item number: #14722

Price: $750

English Parliament

Historical collections: or, A brief account of the most remarkable transactions of the two last Parliaments held and dissolved at Westminster and Oxford. With exact lists of the members of each Parliament.

London: : Printed for S.N. and sold by W. Freeman near Temble-bar [sic] in Fleetstreet., 1685.

Details:

· Collation: Complete with all pages

o [6], 302

· References: Wing H 2101; Moule, Bibliotheca Heraldica Magnae Brtianniae¸no.318; Lowndes 1406

· Provenance: Handwritten – Tho: Saunderson

o Thomas Saunderson was Vice-Admiral of Lincolnshire from 1702-1705.

· Language: English

· Binding: Leather; tight & secure

· Size: ~7.5in X 4.5in (19cm x 11cm)

· Quite rare

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