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‘This edition will be all the more valuable because it reproduces on opposite pages the original manuscript text of c.1626 and on the other Tyrwhitt’s text of 125 years later. Henry Elsynge the elder, Clerk of the Parliaments in succession to his uncle, Robert Bowyer, from 1621 to 1635, was one of the first and greatest of a succession of practising clerks and scholars from whose labours through the centuries both Houses of Parliament have benefited greatly...The text here reprinted is the beginning of a work which was never finished but intended, I believe, to be comprehensive and consecutive.’~From the Preface by The Lord Chancellor The Rt. Hon.Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone