Overview

Volume writen by "the learned William Lambert of Lincolns Inn Esquire." Includes sections on the first, second, and third reading of bills; who can and cannot be burgesses; punishment for offenses against the House; House member privileges, etc. William Lambarde (1536-1601) was an English antiquarian, politician, and writer on legal subjects.

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...