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Three Restoration-Era Treatises on Parliament Elsynge, Henry [1598-1654]. The Ancient Method and Manner of Holding Parliaments in England. Enlarged. London: Printed for S.S. and to be sold by Tho. Dring, 1675. [xii], 371, [1] pp. Final page blank. [Bound with] Hakewell, W[illiam] [1574-1655]. Modus Tenendi Parliamentum: Or, The Old Manner of Holding Parliaments in England. Extracted Out of Our Ancient Records. With Certain Municipal Rights and Customes of England. Together with Some Priviledges of Parliament: The Manner and Method How Laws are There Enacted by Passing of Bills. Collected Out of the Journal of the House of Commons. London: Printed for Abel Roper, 1671. [viii], 220 pp. Two parts, the second, The Manner How Statutes are Enacted in Parliament by Passing of Bills, with separate title page dated 1670 and table of contents. [And] [Scobell, Henry (d. 1660)]. Memorials of the Method and Manner of Proceedings in Parliament in Passing Bills. Together with Several Rules & Customs, Which by Long and Constant Practice Have Obtained the Name of Orders of the House. Gathered by Observation, And Out of the Journal Books from the Time of Edward 6. London: S.n., 1670. 116, [4] pp. 12mo. (5-1/2" x 3"). Contemporary calf, blind rules and black-stamped corner fleurons to boards, raised bands, blind fillets and lettering piece to spine, gilt tooling to board edges. Light rubbing and a few small spots to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities, front board starting at ends but secure, light creasing to spine, very light chipping to foot of spine, corners bumped and lightly worn, rear hinge starting, early ownership signature ("M. Wycke"?) to front pastedown. Light toning to interior, light foxing and soiling in a few places, corners of a few leaves worn without loss to text, small spark burn to leaf Q6 (pp. 347-348) of first work affecting headline without loss to legibility. $1,250. * Elsynge: third edition; Hakewell: fourth and final edition; Scobell: second edition, one of three issues from 1670; The three works collected in this volume reflect the resetting of Parliamentary power during the reign of Charles II. A standard authority in seventeenth-century England, Modus Tenendi Parliamentum was first published in 1641 as The Manner of Holding Parliaments in England. It is a s.