ENGLAND - 17th-century speeches]. A collection of eighteen 17th-century manuscript copies of speeches, letters and memoranda, circa 1601-1640, written in several 17th-century hands, approximately 1160 pages, folio , blanks (some leaves worn, darkened and with offsetting of ink), tipped into an album, cloth, half morocco. Provenance . Browne Willis (list of contents, and signature dated 1709); Phillipps MS 11936. The album includes copies of Elizabeth I's speech to her last parliament (30 November 1601); James I's letter (in Latin) to the University of Cambridge (14 March 1616); speeches and coronation oaths addressed to Charles I; reports of Sir Richard Weston's negotiations; instructions to Thomas Wentworth; Sir Robert Cotton's Relation of the proceedings of Ambassadors (24 April 1624); his speech to the parliament at Oxford (1625); and his Discourse to Sir Edward Montagu that the Commons has equal powers of jurisdiction with the Peers; also notes, abstracts, legal memoranda and a Recital of the 'Celestial Apparition of this present Trigon' (after 1663). Browne Willis (1682-1760), who owned the album in 1709, was a noted antiquary, and many of his manuscripts are now in the Bodleian Library.
ENGLAND - 17th-century speeches]. A collection of eighteen 17th-century manuscript copies of speeches, letters and memoranda, circa 1601-1640, written in several 17th-century hands, approximately 1160 pages, folio , blanks (some leaves worn, darkened and with offsetting of ink), tipped into an album, cloth, half morocco. Provenance . Browne Willis (list of contents, and signature dated 1709); Phillipps MS 11936. The album includes copies of Elizabeth I's speech to her last parliament (30 November 1601); James I's letter (in Latin) to the University of Cambridge (14 March 1616); speeches and coronation oaths addressed to Charles I; reports of Sir Richard Weston's negotiations; instructions to Thomas Wentworth; Sir Robert Cotton's Relation of the proceedings of Ambassadors (24 April 1624); his speech to the parliament at Oxford (1625); and his Discourse to Sir Edward Montagu that the Commons has equal powers of jurisdiction with the Peers; also notes, abstracts, legal memoranda and a Recital of the 'Celestial Apparition of this present Trigon' (after 1663). Browne Willis (1682-1760), who owned the album in 1709, was a noted antiquary, and many of his manuscripts are now in the Bodleian Library.
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