Call Number:

SCRC 66

Repository:

Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center

Extent:

0.5 linear feet (3 volumes)

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

[Description and date of item], Modus Tenendi Parlimentum Apud Anglos in Two Bookes Manuscripts, SCRC 66, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Date:

between 1630 and 1640 (inclusive)

Creator:

Elsynge, Henry, 1606?-1656

Form:

Codices (bound manuscripts)

Abstract:

Henry Elsynge, clerk of the House of Commons, was born at Battersea and educated at Westminster. He received his B.A. from Oxford in 1625. Elsynge then spent seven years in foreign travel after which Archbishop Laud secured him an appointment as clerk of the House of Commons. He resigned several years later to avoid participating in the proceedings against Charles I. Elsynge was an excellent scholar fluent in French, Italian and Latin. His work as clerk was especially valuable during the Long Parliament. His writings include of the form and manner of holding a Parliament in England (1663), and a tract concerning proceedings in Parliament. Ther former text is derived from a similar text written by his father.

Three handwritten manuscripts on paper documenting the order of business in Parliament. The volumes are bound accordingly: 41 leaves listing The Kings offices and fees, ships, musters for Wales"fugitives over The Sea' and other matters; 25 leaves (in different hand) recording opinions of Antiquaries concerning the history of Parliament. The paper are written by Camden, Agard and Tate (among others) for the Elizabethan Society of Antiquaries.