Introduction to the Sources: Commons

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Introduction to the Sources: Commons

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Type: I. General Introduction
Information: Camden Fourth Series , Volume 19: Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 , July 1977 , pp. 23 - 33

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068690500005134 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1977

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^{page 24 note 1} S.P. 16/452/30.

^{page 24 note 2} See below, Rushworth, , i, p. 41.Google Scholar

^{page 24 note 3} E.g., committee papers, orders concerning elections.

^{page 24 note 4} C.J., ii, p. 18Google Scholar, Cf. M.C.J., pp. 97–98.

^{page 24 note 5} C.J., ii, p. 15.Google Scholar

^{page 24 note 6} Although Pym's name is not mentioned, a summary of his famous speech of 17 April is recorded (C.J., ii, p. 5Google Scholar; cf. M.C.J., p. 22).

^{page 24 note 7} Commons Debates, 1629, pp. xliv–xlv.Google Scholar

^{page 24 note 8} The Diary of Humfrey Wanley, 1715–76, ed. Wright, C. E. and Wright, Ruth C. (London, 1966), pp. 386–87.Google Scholar

^{page 24 note 9} Harley Letters, pp. 90–95Google Scholar; see also Hist. MSS Comm., xxix, Fourteenth Report, App. ii: Portland MSS, Harley Papers (London, 1894), pp. 58–63Google Scholar; D.N.B., ‘Harley.’

^{page 25 note 1} For example, fos 77^r–78^v (24 April); cf. B.L., Add. MS. 36827, fos 43^r–44^r.

^{page 25 note 2} Neither mentions Pym on 17 April (B.L., Add. MS. 36827, fos 15^r–16^r; B.L., Harl. MS. 4289, fos 65^r–65^v).

^{page 25 note 3} Petyt MS. 537 includes 46 volumes of Journals of Parliament, Hen. VIIIChas. II. See Davies, J. Conway, Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple (Oxford, 1972), ii, p. 611.Google Scholar

^{page 25 note 4} We are grateful to Christopher Thompson for some very thought-provoking ideas about this.

^{page 25 note 5} E.g., 1610 (Foster, , i, p. xxxv).Google Scholar

^{page 26 note 1} We are grateful to Rodney G. Dennis, Curator of Manuscripts, Houghton Library, Harvard University, for this information.

^{page 26 note 2} See Commons Debates, 1629, pp. xv–xixGoogle Scholar; also Commons Debates, 1621, i, pp. 15–16Google Scholar. References to the manuscript as a diary are general, not technical.

^{page 26 note 3} See below, App. (17 April) Pym; (16 April) Seymour, pp. 297, 299.

^{page 26 note 4} Finch-Hatton MS. p. 43, p. 157.

^{page 26 note 5} E.g., Finch-Hatton MS. p. 65, Braye 16, fo 22^v, p. 178; cf. p. 72.

^{page 27 note 1} Finch-Hatton MS. p. 65, pp. 46–47, below, pp. 160, 161, 178.

^{page 27 note 2} E.g., Harvard MS fos 79, 82^v, below, p. 191; cf. p. 196.

^{page 27 note 3} E.g., Finch-Hatton MS. pp. 47, 55, below, p. 161; cf. p. 171.

^{page 27 note 4} E.g., Finch-Hatton MS. pp. 56, 58, Harvard MS. fos 75, 80^v, below, pp. 171, 173, 187, 193.

^{page 27 note 5} For example, Parry (below, Harvard MS fo 75^v, p. 41); Ball and Jones (Finch-Hatton MS. pp. 58, 66, below, pp. 173, 179); concerning Hyde as possible diarist, see below, Clarendon, p. 141.

^{page 27 note 6} For example, below, Finch-Hatton MS. pp. 58, 65, Harvard MS. fo 76^v, pp. 173, 178, 179.

^{page 27 note 7} Peyton's account agrees (Oxinden Letters, pp. 162–63).Google Scholar

^{page 28 note 1} See Finch-Hatton MS. p. 60, p. 176 and note 2.

^{page 28 note 2} The Manchester Manuscripts in the Huntingdon Record Office are the best source of information about Bernard, whose authorship is not accepted by all scholars. We have examined his letters and believe the handwriting to be the same as that in the diary.

^{page 28 note 3} H.R.O., M36/1, pp. 3–4, 7–8, 26–27, PP. 199, 2O2, 210.

^{page 28 note 4} For example, Hampden (below, H.R.O., M36/1, p. 25, p. 209); St John, p. 209.

^{page 29 note 1} H.R.O., M36/1, pp. 1, 6.

^{page 29 note 2} For example, H.R.O., M36/1, pp. 7, 16, pp. 201, 205.

^{page 29 note 3} Cope, , ‘Lord Montagu,’ B.I.H.R., xlvi (1973).Google Scholar

^{page 29 note 4} For example, below, Worc. Coll. fos I5^v, 2O^v, pp. 213, 222, and note 5.

^{page 30 note 1} See below, Worc. Coll. Seymour, pp. 1, 4, pp. 213, 215.

^{page 30 note 2} See below, Worc. Coll. fo 21, p. 224.

^{page 30 note 3} See below, Worc. Coll. fo 17^v, p. 221.

^{page 31 note 1} His paper was A Perfect Diurnall of some Passages in Parliament.

^{page 31 note 2} Worc. Coll. MS. 5.20, fo 23^v.

^{page 31 note 3} HM 1554 is not actually part of the Hastings Papers. Some material from other parliaments also appears in the volume. We are grateful to Jean Preston, Assistant Curator of Manuscripts at the Huntington, for information about the volume.

^{page 31 note 4} The other three items in the volume are: 3. Hakewill's The Course of Passinge bills in Parliament. 5. Reports of 11 cases in various courts, 6–9 Jac. I and one undated. 6. Sherfield's reading in one of the Inns of Court, 1623–24. We are grateful to Robert E. Brooks of the Reference Department of the Yale Law Library for this information. There are photostats of this manuscript in the Folger Shakespeare Library (PR 1405 J6).

^{page 32 note 1} In printing the four-page diurnal of the Short Parliament with an issue of his paper, Pecke was copying the practice of a competitor, Henry Walker, who a few weeks earlier had begun printing a series of summaries of proceedings of the Long Parliament. Frank, Joseph, The Beginnings of the English Newspaper, 1620–60(Cambridge, Mass., 1961), pp. 182–83.CrossRef Google Scholar

^{page 32 note 2} Frank, , The Beginnings of the English Newspaper, 1620–60, p. 25Google Scholar; Williams, J. B., ‘The Beginnings of English Journalism,’ Cambridge History of English Literature, vii, p. 394 (eds. Ward, A. W. and Waller, A. R., Cambridge, 1911).Google Scholar

^{page 32 note 3} See HM 1554, pp. 254, Worc. Coll. fo 19^v, pp. 221, 230.

^{page 32 note 4} See HM 1554, pp. 257–58, below, pp. 213–22.

^{page 32 note 5} See p. 222, below, Worc. Coll. fo 20.

^{page 32 note 6} See below, Worc. Coll. fos 15, 19^v, pp. 212, 221; HM 1554, pp. 252–62; Worc. Coll. 5.20, fos 25^v–26^r, pp. 228–29.

^{page 33 note 1} See below, Worc. Coll. fo 26^v, p. 229.

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