Sub-series E5/3. - King, Parliament and affairs of state,

Identity area

Reference code

E5/3.

Title

King, Parliament and affairs of state,

Date(s)

  • [c.1590xc.1600]-[c.1642x1648]. (Creation)

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1 bundle.

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Scope and content

Documents, [c.1590xc.1600]-[c.1642x1648], accumulated by Edward Herbert during the course of his career as Member of Parliament for Montgomery, and during his studies into English politics; many are copies made by him or for him. They include accounts of parliamentary business and history, and of individual political figures; treatises by Herbert on particular aspects of governance and political authority, notably the relationship between king, parliament and the subject; accounts of the origins and course of the civil war; and instruments relating to the government of Montgomeryshire and the Welsh marches.

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Accruals

System of arrangement

Removed from the original bundles, but arranged following the order of the bundles in the previous arrangement. Each bundle was arranged roughly chronologically.

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Language and script notes

English, Latin.

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Further papers relating to Edward Herbert’s political activities were transferred from this archive (while at Powis Castle) to the PRO [now TNA]: his Parliamentary diary, 1640-1641, is now TNA 30/53/12; notes of proceedings against the earl of Strafford, 1641, made or accumulated by Herbert, are now TNA 30/53/13; and ‘Historical papers, Henry VIII-1692’, are now TNA 30/53/9. In addition, NLW MS 14005E (f.75) is a facsimile of a letter, 1643, from Edward Herbert to Captain Thomas Morgan; NLW MS 18971 is an early 17th-century manuscript of John Selden’s ‘England’s epinomis’, with the signature on the flyleaf of Edward Herbert of Cherbury; and NLW Deeds 1713 contains an Order of the House of Lords, 1642, permitting Edward Herbert to go abroad ‘for his health sake’.

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Preferred citation: E5/3.

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vtls004442067

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Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales

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  • Text: E5/3.