The first part of a brief register, kalendar and survey of the several kinds, forms of all parliamentary vvrits: . comprising in 3, sections, all writs, forms of summons togreat councils, parliaments, convocations in the Tower, from the 5th of King John (1203) till 23 Edw. 4. (1483) [...] Illustrated with choice, usefull annotations [...] By William Prynne Esq; a bencher of Lincolnes Inne. [...].
William Prynne (1600-1669)
Category
Books
Date
1659
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 3048912.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
[40],120,113-223,[8],228-300,313-316,309-312,317-332,233-2 40,341-412,395-450,[2]p. . 4to.. Identified in 1768 catalogue: B.7 [crossed through] in the closet [entered with Prynne's other works as 'Prynne's Histrio-Mastix, Registrum Brevium, & tracts. 14 vol.']. Bound with Prynne's 'The second part of a brief register' (London: 1660); 'Brevia Parliamentaria' (London: 1662). Paper strips have been pasted on to page 434 for the addition of manuscript references. Old manuscript prices and shelfmark on front flyleaf: 48. Old manuscript shelfmark on title page: C.5. manuscript annotations on front flyleaf and rear pastedown.. Provenance: manuscript inscription on title page: Wa. Williams [seventeenth-century hand]; Bookplate on front pastedown: Armorial, Grey and Booth quarterings impaling Cavendish-Bentinck: George Harry Grey, 5th earl of Stamford & 1st earl of Warrington (2nd cr.) (1737-1819); bookplate on verso of title page: Armorial, three boars' heads, differenced with a mullet; The Honble. Henry Booth. [i.e.: Henry Booth (1687-1727)].. Binding: Calf; double blind ruled; rebacked (spine entirely replaced); spine lettered in gilt directly onto leather: 'Prynne's Parliamentary writs'; fore-edge titles: 'Prins register of parliament writs 1st & [2nd] & Bre: Parl rediviva'.
Makers and roles
William Prynne (1600-1669)