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Parliament--House of Commons. JOURNALS A series of 76 folio manuscript volumes produced in the early 18th century, covering Parliaments of James I in 7 volumes (from 19 March 1603/4 (misdated "29 Martii 1602" ) to 17 March 1620/1 only), Charles I in 3 volumes (from 21 June 1625 to 2 March 1629 only), Charles II in 18 volumes, the final volume also detailing the Parliaments of James II (from 25 April 1660 to 28 April 1687), William III and Mary II in 33 volumes (from 22 March 1688/9 to 7 March 1701/2), and Queen Anne in 15 volumes (from 8 March 1701/2 to 15 February 1708/9), in total about 49,000 pages written in 32 distinct scribal hands (in most cases each volume being the work of a single scribe), on various paper-stocks (the most common watermarks including Arms of Amsterdam with 'VI' and 'KWM' countermarks and the Seven Provinces of the Netherlands with crowned 'GR' countermark, all consistent with an early-eighteenth century date), each volume red-ruled, most volumes with contemporary pagination and the remainder with paragraph numbers, each volume indexed, five volumes (temp. Charles II) composed of two shorter booklets bound together but separately indexed, six volumes incorporating fold-out tables, seven volumes for Parliamentary proceedings between 1689-92 with additional notes on final blanks in another hand, and two volumes with two-page summaries of content in another hand tipped in, uniformly bound in contemporary calf with spines in six compartments, five gilt and one with red morocco lettering pieces, bindings restored, five volumes affected by damp [together with:] 'Calendar or Abstracts of the Journals of the House of Commons from Edward 6th Anno 1546 to the year 1642 [1660-1710]', two volumes, folio, in a single hand, large folio, red ruled margins, contemporary pagination, 527 and 776 pages, blanks, contemporary calf, rebacked and restored, spotting; Journal of the House of Lords, 1 volume, 25 April to 29 December 1660, also incorporating a copy of Sir Harbottle Grimstone's speech to the King, in a single hand, large folio, red ruled margins, contemporary pagination, 1000 pages, blanks, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked retaining original lettering piece; 'A Calendar of the Journals of the House of Lords Beginning with the Reign of King Henry VIII and Ending with the Reign of King Charles I' ['Beginning with the Reign of King Charles II and ending with the VIth Parliament of Great Britain Upon the Death of King George I', i.e. 1727 but with some later entries], in a single hand, large folio, red ruled margins, contemporary pagination, 631 and 725 pages plus blanks and indexes, modern calf backed marbled boards with new endpapers, dampstained