A Brief Register Part 2, Part 2
THE SECOND PART OF A Brief Register, Kalendar, and Survey of the several Kindes, Forms of PARLIAMENTARY WRITS.
HAving already presented the world with the First Part of my Brief Register, Kalendar and Survey of the several kinds, forms of Parliamentary Writs, in 3. distinct Sections, with Special & General Choise useful Annotations on, and Observations from them, relating principally to the Members and Assistants of the LORDS HOUSE; I shall now proceed in this Second Part (by Gods assistance) to communicate to this present age and Posteritie in several Sections, the manifold varieties, forms of Writs issued to Sheriffs of Shires, and particular Corporations made Counties within themselves, Wardens of the Cinqueports, Mayors of Towns, Burroughs, and Officers of the Ports, for electing Knights, Citizens, Burgesses, Barons of the Ports, and other Members, to serve in our Great Councils, Parliaments, or attend upon, or appear before them as Assistants, or otherwise upon Extraordinarie Occasions; with the different Forms of Writs for Proroguing, Adjourning, Superseding Parliaments, or Councils after the first Writs of Summons, issued to Spiritual and Temporal Lords of all ranks, the Kings Counsil, Sheriffs, and other Officers: with extraordinarie Writs directed to the King, Nobles, Officers, and others of Scotland; and to some Lords, Officers, and others in Ireland; as likewise to Merchants, Masters, Owners of Ships, and other private persons, to appear at or before the Parliament, or Kings Counsil in England, upon urgent occasions, relating to the respective Lands, affairs, defences of Scotland, or Ireland, or to the Guarding of the Seas, Merchandize, trade, and the like, with sundrie kinds of Writs, issued to the Arch-bishops, Bishops, Convocations, Clergy of England; besides other rare Writs relating to our Parliamentarie affairs and proceedings; not hitherto published or insisted on by any Writers of our Parliaments, though most worthie the knowledg of all Noble-men, States-men, Parliament-men, Lawyers, Gentlemen of qualitie, Antiquaries, Historians, hitherto (for the most part) totally unacquainted with them, or the majoritie of them, almost quite buried in the grave of oblivion, many of our Records being now overspread with dust, cobwebs, and eaten up with rust, cankers, moths, worms, in their over-much neglected Cells, for want of industrie, care in those who should preserve, and reduce them into better order, for the publike benefit of the present and succeeding ages; A Work fit to be speedily executed, promoted, and no longer deferred by those whom it most concerns, and by persons in highest Authoritie as worthy their superintendent eye and countenance, being the richest Treasures of the whole English Nation.