Dr. Dopping, bp. of Meath, with a preface in vindication of its authenticity, Lat. 12mo. Dubl. 1692, 2s. 6d.

Modus tenendi parliamenta in Hibernia, with bp. Dopping's preface. To which is added, the rules and customs of the house, gathered out of the journal books from the time of Edw. VI. 8vo. Dubl. 1772, 1 s. 6d.

This Irish modus is a transcript of the article immediately preceding for an account of it, besides the authorities there mentioned, see 4th Inst. 349. Molyneaux's case of Ireland, p. 22, and Nicholson's Irish Hist. libr. 4to. p. 50.

40. OLDFIELD (T. H. B.) history of the original constitution of parliaments, from the time of the Britons to the present day, 8vo. 1797, 9s.

41. OPINIONS of several learned antiquaries; viz. sir J. Dodderidge, Mr. Agard, Mr. Tate, Mr. Camden, and Mr. Selden, touching the antiquity, power, order, state, persons, manner, and proceedings of the high court of parliament in England; with a preface by John Dodderidge, 12mo. 1658, 1635, 1s. 6 d.

The edition 1658 wants Selden's opinion, containing six pages, and has the addition of Dodderidge's preface, containing 44 pages. These tracts are inserted in Hearne's curious discourses.

42. ORDER and course of passing bills in parliament, in eight sections, 4to. 1641, 1s. 6d. 43. ORDERS of houses of lords and commons, see Hatsell, No. 20. (unte) and rules, &c. No. 51. (1) (infra.)

44. PETTUS'S Constitution of parliaments in England, from the time of K. Edw. II. illustrated by K. Cha. II. in his parliament summoned 18th Feb. 1660, and dissolved 24th Jan. 1678, 8vo. 1680, 1701, 2s. 6d.

45. PETTYT'S (Will.) ancient rights of the commons of England asserted; or, a discourse, proved by records, &c. that they were ever an essential part of parliament, 8vo. 1680, 2s. 6d. This gave rise to a controversy which occasioned the publication of Argumentum Anti-normanicum," No. 6. "Historical Treatise," No. 23; Introduction, &c. No. 28; Jani Anglorum, No. 26; and Jus Anglorum, No. 30, (ante.)

46. PETTYT'S (Will.) miscellanea parliamentaria; containing precedents, 1. Of freedom of arrests. 2. Of censures. (1. Upon such as have wrote books to the dishonour of the government. 2. Upon members for misdemeanors.) 3. Upon persons not members for contempts, &c. 4. For misdemeanors in elections. With an appendix of several instances wherein the kings of England consulted their parliament in marriages, peace, and war, &c. 12mo. 1680, 1681, 2s. 6d. This author left other collections upon the subject of the law of

parliament published after his death, intitled, Jus parliamentarium, see No. 31, ante.

47. PRECEDENTS of proceedings in parliament, see Hatsell, Nos. 18, 19, (ante.)

48. PREROGATIVE of parliaments in England; proved in a dialogue between a counsellor and a justice of peace, written by Sir Walter Raleigh, when a prisoner in the Tower, and dedicated to K. James, A. D. 1610, 4to. printed at Midleburg, 1628, 1640, 2s. 6d. [printed also in Raleigh's remains, 12mo. 1702,]

Reprinted in Harl. Miscel. vol. v. p. 180. See also some account of it in Catal. of Pamph. in Harl. Lib. n. 287. 49. PRIVILEGE and practice of parliaments in England, 4to. 1628, 1640, 1641, 1680, 1s. 50. PRYNNE'S (Will.) calendar and survey of the several kinds and forms of parliamentary writs, 4 parts, 4to. 1659, 1660, 1662, 1664.

RULES and ORDERS of HOUSES of LORDS and COMMONS.

51. (1) Complete collection of the standing orders of the house of lords, extracted from and compared with the journals of the said house, 8vo. 1748, 2s. 6d. 51. (2) ELLIS'S (C. T.) practical remarks and precedents of proceedings in parliament on private bills, comprising the standing orders of both houses, to 21 June 1810, 8vo. 1810, 11 s. boards. 1803, 5s. 1799, 3 s.;

51. (3) HATSELL's collection of rules and orders, see N° 20, ante. 51. (4) Observations, rules, and orders, collected out of divers journals of the house of commons, entered in the reigns of Edw. VI. Q. Mary, Q. Eliz. Jac. I. Cha. I, and Cha. II. 8vo.

1707, 1717, 2s.

51. (5) Orders, proceedings, punishments, and privileges in parliament, 4to. 1641, 12mo. 1661, 1s.

51. (6) ORDERS, standing orders, and resolutions of the house of commons, relating to their forms of proceeding, &c. &vo. 1747, 2s.

51. (7) ORDERS essential, fundamental and standing orders, reports, declarations, memorandums, rules, agreements, and regulations of the house of commons, relating to their forms of proceedings, privileges, &c. collected out of the journals; to which are added, proceedings of the house against Mr. Murray, 2d edit. 12mo. 1756, 3 s. 6 d.

51. (8) REMEMBRANCES; or, a complete collection of the standing orders of the house of lords, extracted from the journals, 8vo. 1744, 28.

52. STANDING orders of the house of commons, as revised by a committee of the house, relative to private bills, and other matters, 8vo. 1815, 6s. boards.

149 53. POLLOCK'S (David) tables of particulars, in soliciting private bills, as usually commence in the house of commons, 4to. 1813, 2s. 6d. 54. RYMER'S (Tho.) view of government in Europe, and civil policy; also the antiquity, power, and decay of parliaments, with other observations, 12mo. 1689, 1714, 1s. 6d.

55. SADLER'S (sir Ralph) rights of the kingdom; or, customs of our ancestors, touching the duty, power, election, or succession of our kings and parliaments, &c. with a preface, 4to. 1649, 1682, 2s. 6d.

In the latter edition the preface is omitted. This work is recommended by Mr. Locke (Remains, 8vo. 1720, p. 238), as containing the ancient constitution of the government of England. An answer was written to it by Sir Roger L'Estrange, intitled, A word concerning libels and libellers.

1681.

56. SCOBEL'S (Hen. clk. of the parl.) miscellanea parliamentaria; containing, I. Memorials of the manner of passing bills, (Harl. Miscel. vol. v. 210;) together with the order of the house. II. Precedent of elections, proceedings, privileges, and punishments in parliament, by R. C. esq. with so much of the learned Tho. Smith as relates to this subject. III. The opinion of the most learned antiquaries, touching the antiquity, power, state, and proceedings in parliament. IV. The method of passing bills in the h. of lords under twelve principal heads, 12mo. 1685, 3s.

These tracts are sometimes bound separate.

57. SCOBEL'S (Hen.) remembrances of the methods, orders, and proceedings heretofore used and observed in the h. of lords, extracted out of the journals; together with Selden's privilege of the baronage when they sit in parliament, 12mo. 1689, 3s.

ante.

58. SCOBEL'S (Hen.) memorials of the method and manner of proceedings in parliament, in passing bills, with several rules and customs. See Elsynge's Miscel. Parl. 12mo. No. 13, 1670, 1689, 1s. 6d. 59. SPELMAN (sir Hen.) on parliaments, 8vo. 1642, 18. See also Spelmanni Reliquiæ, Ch. XIV. (infra.) 60. SMITH'S (sir Tho.) manner of holding parliaments; also arcana parliamentaria, 12mo. 1 s. 6 d. 61. THE manner of holding parliaments in England, collected out of ancient records, to which is added, ancient customs of this kingdom. The prerogative and powers of parliament, &c. 4to. 1641, 3s. 62. WHITWORTH's (Cha.) succession of parliaments, being exact lists of the members chosen at each general election from the restoration to 1761, 12mo. 1764, 3s. 6d.

[CH. VII. 63. WILLIS'S (Brown) notitia parliamentaria, showing what boroughs were anciently parliamentary, 3 vols. (1st part, 2d edit. enlarged,) 8vo. 1716, 1730, 1750, 3l. 3 s.

SECT. III.

BISHOPS right of voting in the House of Lords.

1. ANSWER to this quodlibetical question, whether the bishops make a fundamental and essential part of the English parliament, 4to. 1661, 1s.

On occasion of the earl of Danby's case in the house of lords, 31 Car. II. the right of judicature of the bishops in parliament, in capital cases, was much discussed. The following publications appeared in the dispute on that subject, which continued during the course of several years.

2. ANSWER to the gentleman's letter to his friend; showing that bishops may be judges in capital cases, fol. 1680, 1s.

3. ANSWER to sundry matters in Mr. Hunt's postscript to his argument for the bishop's right to vote, &c. 4to. 1683, 18. 4. APOLOGY for the ancient right and power of the bishops to sit and vote in parliament, as the first and principal of the three estates of the kingdom, 4to. 1660, again 1661, 1s.

Written by Jer. Stephens, prebendary of Salisbury, the excellent coadjutor of Sir Hen. Spelman, in his edition of the ancient councils, (Nicholson, fol. 195.)

5. BISHOPS may and ought to vote in cases of blood, fol. 1680,

6. BISHOPS, not judges in capital cases, 8vo. 7. BISHOPS right to vote in capital cases,

2 s.

1679, 13. 1684, 2s.

8. DISCOURSE of the peerage, and jurisdiction of the lords spiritual in parliament, proving from the fundamental laws of the land, the testimony of the most renowned authors, and the practice of all ages, that they have no right in claiming any jurisdiction in capital matters, fol. 1679, 2s. 6d.

9. GRAND QUESTION Concerning the bishops right to vote in parliament in capital cases, stated and argued, 8vo. 1680, 1 s. 6d. Written by the learned Dr. Stillingfleet, Bp. of Worcester, who has collected all that the rolls of parliament and our ancient histories afforded on the subject, (Nicholson, fol. 195.)

There is also a tract of the jurisdiction of the bishops in capital cases, printed among his tracts.

10. HOLLIS'S (Ld.) remains; being a second letter to a friend concerning the judicature of the bishops in parliament, in vindication of what he wrote in his first, and in answer to the Rights of the bishops to judge in capital cases in parliament, cleared, &c. It contains likewise a part of his intended answer to a second tractate, intitled, Grand Question, &c; to which are added considerations in answer to the learned author of the Grand Question, &c. by another hand; and reflections upon some passages in Mr. Hunt's postscript by a third, 8vo. 1682, 2 s.

11. HOLLIS'S (Ld.) letter of a gentleman to his friend; showing that the bishops are not to be judges in parliament in capital cases, 8vo. 1679, 18. 12. HONOURS of the lords spiritual asserted, and their privileges to vote in capital cases in parliament, maintained by reason and precedent, fol. 1679, 3s. 6d. Said to be written by the author of rights of the bishops, &c. [Mr. Hunt.]

13. HUNT'S (Tho.) rights of the bishops to judge in capital cases cleared, 8vo.

1680, 1 s. 6d.

14. HUNT'S (Tho.) argument for the bishops right, with a postscript, 8vo.

15. REJOINDER to the reply concerning the peers, diction of the lords spiritual in parliament, fol.

1682, 2 s. and juris1679, 2 s.

16. SHORT TREATISE of abps. and bps. lords spiritual, whether they be in less fullness lords than the temporal. And whether to be tried by peers as the lords temporal, 4to.

1641.

17. Two treatises; the first proving, both by history and records, that the bishops are a fundamental and essential part of our English parliament; the second, that they may be judges in capital cases, fol. 1680, 2s. 6d.

18. WOMOC's (Dr.) treatises, proving both by history and record, that the bishops are a fundamental and essential part of our English parliament, and that they may be judges in capital cases, fol. 1680, 1s. 6d.

SECT. IV.

JOURNALS and History of Proceedings in Parliament.

1. ABSTRACT of the returns made by the overseers of the poor, in pursuance of an act 26 Geo. III. obliging overseers to make returns upon oath, relative to the state of the poor, large 4to.

1787.