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Parliamentary Texts


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0103 MS ANGL 4

Held at: University College London

Title: Parliamentary Texts

Date(s): 17th century

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume containing 157 leaves

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Unknown.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Manuscript volume, 17th century: the Manner of Holdinge a Parliament in England in 24 Articles, comprising eight texts on parliamentary history, back to the Anglo-Saxon period, and on procedure, concerning both the House of Lords and the House of Commons and their powers.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English and Latin. Cursive hands.

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Normal copyright restrictions apply.

Physical characteristics:

Paper manuscript bound in light vellum. Various hands. 31cm.

Finding aids:

Dorothy K Coveney, A Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of University College London (London, 1935), which summarises the contents of the manuscript; handlist at University College London Special Collections.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

With the monogram FR and the inscription: sold at Puttick & Simpsons ... 1857 (f 1*r).

Immediate source of acquisition:

Unknown.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Sep 2001


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
English history | European history | National history
Medieval history | Historical periods
Modern history | Historical periods
Parliament | Internal politics
Parliamentary systems | Democracy | Political systems
Political theory | Political science
History

Personal names

Corporate names
House of Commons
House of Lords

Places
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe