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Minors no senators. Or A briefe discourse, proving, that infants under the age of 21. yeares, are uncapable, in point of law, of being members of Parliament : and that the elections of any such are meere nullities; yea, injurious, prejuditiall, dishonourable to the whole Parliament and Kingdome, in sundry respects

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: anno 1646.
Call number: 478094
Creator: Prynne, William (1600-1669)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from E.M. Lawson, cat. 211:460, 28 July 1982. Bookplate, laid in: A gift of the Friends of the Huntington Library.
Dimensions: 22 cm (4to)
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