Modus tenendi Parliamentum apud Anglos, [ca. 1625].

1 v. (214 p.) ; 31 x 20 cm.

Latin

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Henry Elsynge [Elsyng] (bap. 1606, d. 1656) was clerk of the House of Commons. After a stint as his father's assistant in the House of Lords, he obtained the office of clerk of the House of Commons in 1639. He officiated at the Short Parliament which met in 1640, and then for the first eight years of the Long Parliament, remaining at Westminster after the final break between the king and parliament in 1642. Elsynge resigned his office in 1648, claiming poor health, but in reality not wishing to take part in the proceedings against the king. He retired to Hounslow in Middlesex where he died in 1656. The various parts of the treatise entitled The Manner of Holding Parliaments in England, or, Modus tenendi parliamentum apud Anglos, sometimes attributed to Elsynge, were in fact the work of his father.

August 08, 2005

Henry Elsynge, Modus Tenendi Parliamentum Apud Anglos. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Henry Elsynge, Modus Tenendi Parliamentum Apud Anglos. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.