Standing orders of the House of Lords
Overview
Notebook on parliamentary procedures in Great Britain's House of Lords. Covers the years 1621-1715, was probably copied around 1715. In 1715 the House of Lords revised and re-arranged the Standing Orders, copying them to a new Roll. This manuscript is probably a copy of the new Roll, made before new Orders began to be added to the Roll in 1718. Perhaps this manuscript was made by the Parliament Office to help an official or a member to follow Parliamentary practice, or perhaps it was made privately. Similar mansucripts exist elsewhere with different coverages. The earliest similar printed text known to that held by Spencer Research Library is dated 1744.
Dates
- Creation: 1621 - 1715
Conditions Governing Access
No access restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Spencer Library staff may determine use restrictions dependent on the physical condition of manuscript materials.
Extent
2 folders (1 volume + covers in 2 folders) : Pagination: [cover]; [i-ii]: blank; 1-99; [100-116]: blank; [back cover]. Collation: cover; single quire of 59 leaves sewn between pages 58/59; cover. Stub between pages 96/97. Covers now removed to a second folder. Binding: Paper over thin cardboard wrapper. Probably the sewing previously passed through the fold in the cardboard. Binding-paper is embossed with twining vine-circles; gold background, red fore-ground, described by bookseller as "Dutch floral." Binding Title: Paper label on front board, probably in main hand. Script: Several similar set legal hands, perhaps an informal version of the "engrossing secretary" used for the Rolls of Parliament. Material: Paper. Watermark: Fragments of a "Pro Patria" mark appear on--corners of blanks. ; Volume measures 15.8 x 10.3 cm, in folders that measure 22 x 37 cm.
Language of Materials
English
Scope and Contents
Notebook copying orders passed in Parliament, 1621-1715, regulating conduct of Parliamentary affairs in the House of Lords. Arranged roughly by subject, and roughly chronologically within subject. Orders not numbered; most bear date of passage.
Main text is on pages 1-83. An alphabetical index of side-captions is on pages 85-96. Contemporary additions are on pages 84, 97-99, and some index entries.
Title: Contemporary label on front cover: "Standing Orders of the house of Lords".
Incipit:"Remembrances for order and decency to be kept in the upper house of Parliamt..."
Physical Location
MS P573
Custodial History
Unknown. Only recent bookseller-markings on covers.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Sanders, 1987
Subject
- Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords (Organization)
- Title
- Guide to the Parliamentary Procedures Notebook
- Subtitle
- Standing orders of the House of Lords
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by alh, 1987; revised by ksc, 2005. Finding aid encoded by skt, 2006
- Date
- 2006
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Finding aid written in <language encodinganalog="language">English.</language>
- Finding aid permalink
- http://hdl.handle.net/10407/8395904480
- Preferred citation
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Parliamentary procedures notebook, Department of Special Collections, MS P573, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas
Repository Details
Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository