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Historical collections of private passages of state, weighty matters in law, remarkable proceedings in five parliaments : beginning the sixteenth year of King James, anno 1618, and ending the fifth year of King Charls [sic], anno 1629 (v.5, pt.3)

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Title: Historical collections of private passages of state, weighty matters in law, remarkable proceedings in five parliaments : beginning the sixteenth year of King James, anno 1618, and ending the fifth year of King Charls [sic], anno 1629 (v.5, pt.3)

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Classmark: Large Modern History P-6.1 RUS

Related people: Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of, 1593-1641; Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of, 1593-1641

Publisher: Printed by Tho. Newcomb for George Thomason

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1659-1701

Language: English

Size and medium: 5 parts in 8 volumes

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/501951

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991010803249705181

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1st ed., 1659-1701.


Imprint varies: v. 2-3 printed by J.D. for J. Wright and R. Chiswell; v. 4-7 printed for R. Chiswell and T. Cockerill; v. 8 printed for J. Wright and R. Chiswell.


The Tryal of Thomas Earl of Strafford, [Volume 8] has no general title; appeared as an independent work in 1680.


I. Proceedings in five parliaments... ending the fifth year of King Charls [sic], anno 1629 ... 1659. -- II-III. The second part. Containing the principal matters ... from the dissolution of the parliament, on the 10th of March, 4 Car. I. 1628/9 until the summoning of another parliament, which met at Westminster, April 13, 1640. With an account of the proceedings of that parliament; and the transactions and affairs from that time, until the meeting of another parliament, November the 3d following. With some remarkable passages therein during the first six months ... 1680. -- IV-V. The third part ... Containing the principal matters ... from the meeting of the parliament, November the 3d, 1640, to the end of the year 1644. Wherein is a particular account of the rise and progress of the civil war to that period. -- V-VII. The fourth and last part ... Containing the principal matters ... from the beginning of the year 1645. to the death of King Charles the First, 1648. Wherein is a particular
account of the progress of the civil war to that period. --


VIII. The tryal of Thomas Earl of Strafford, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland : upon an impeachment of high treason by the Commons then assembled in Parliament, in the name of themselves and of all the Commons in England: begun in Westminster-Hall the 22th of March 1640. And continued before judgment was given until the 10th of May 1641. Shewing the form of parliamentary proceedings in an impeachment of treason. To which is added a short account of some other matters of fact transacted in both houses of Parliament, precedent, concomitant and subsequent to the said tryal: with some special arguments in law relating to a bill of attainder. Faithfully collected, and impartially published, without observation or reflection, by John Rushworth of Lincolnes-Inn, Esq.

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