Appendix XXV: Reports of House of Commons debates
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Reports of House of Commons debates
This appendix makes no claim to be a comprehensive listing of all reports of House of Commons debates in the period. Excluded are those which omit any account of individual speeches but merely describe proceedings in a general way; nor would it have been at all practicable to have attempted to list the multitude of reports (some of them lengthy and elaborate), which are to be found in private correspondence. With these exceptions, what follows may be described as an inventory of all the reports of debates which have been used in the preparation of the biographies and constituency articles: contemporary publications, later compilations (for example by Chandler or Cobbett), private parliamentary diaries, and ‘separates’ (often in the form of notes taken in the House by individual Members). The identity of the reporter is given where it may be established (and is not implicit in the description of the document, as would be the case with the diaries of Sir Richard Cocks and Narcissus Luttrell), but the dependence of one source on another, for example in the amount of material reprinted in Cobbett’s Parliamentary History, has not been noted. For a full discussion of the varieties of parliamentary reporting, see Sources and The Organization of the House.
1690 Parliament
1st session
20 Mar.-23 May 1690: Grey, x. 1-151
22 Mar.-23 May 1690: Cobbett, Parlty. Hist. v. 549-647
26, 29 Apr. 1690: Bodl. Rawl. A.79, ff. 70-90
26 Apr. , 22 May 1690: Add. 42592, ff. 136-138 (William Brockman*)
28 Mar. 1690: Chandler, ii. 375-6
2nd session
22 Nov. 1690: Chandler, iii. 195-6
3rd session
28 Oct. 1691-13 Jan. 1692: Cobbett, Parlty. Hist. v. 656-706
3 Nov. 1691: Add. 42592, f. 175 (William Brockman)
6 Nov. 1691-26 Sept. 1692: Luttrell Diary, 3-209
7 Nov. 1691-13 Jan. 1692: Grey, x. 62-240
31 Dec. 1691 or 13 Jan. 1692: Chandler, iii. 196-7
4th session
4 Nov. 1692-2 May 1693: Luttrell Diary, 214-481
10 Nov. 1692-21 Feb. 1693: Grey, x. 243-309
12 Nov. 1692-9 Feb. 1693: Cobbett, Parlty. Hist. v. 709-68
28 Jan., 9 Feb. 1693: Chandler, iii. 191-3
5th session
13 Nov. 1693-1 Feb. 1694: Grey, x. 311-86
13 Nov. 1693-Feb. 1694: Cobbett, Parlty. Hist. v. 775-857
4 Jan. 1694: Chandler, ii. 438-44
6th session
14 Mar., 27 Apr. 1695: Cobbett, Parlty. Hist. v. 907-9, 935
24, 27 Apr. 1695: A Collection of the Debates and Proceedings in Parliament, in 1694, and 1695. Upon the Inquiry into the Late Briberies and Corrupt Practices (1695), 31-32, 45-51
27 Apr. 1695: Chandler, ii. 465-9
1695 Parliament
1st session
26 Nov., 10 Dec. 1695: Cobbett, Parlty. Hist. v. 967-75
26 Nov. 1695: Chandler, iii. 4-6
2nd session
6-27 Nov. 1696: Cobbett, Parlty. Hist. v. 998-1149, 1156-61
13-25 Nov. 1696: Chandler, iii. 32-60
24/25 Nov., ?19 Dec. 1696: HLRO, H.C. Lib mss 12, f. 56 (Salwey Winnington*)
3rd session
10 Dec. 1697, 8 Jan. 1698: Cam. Misc. xxix. 356-60 (Salwey Winnington)
7/8 Jan. 1698: Add. 70332 (Robert Harley*)
24 June 1698: Add. 70332 (Robert Harley)
1698 Parliament
1st session
6 Dec. 1698- ? 4 Apr. 1699: Cam. Misc. xxix. 361-79, 392-401 (William Cowper*)
23 Dec. 1698, 4 Jan.- ?10 Mar. 1699: Cam. Misc. xxix. 379-92 (Salwey Winnington)
4 Jan.- ?20 Apr. 1699: Cocks Diary, 1-24
?3 Feb. 1699: Add 70306 (Robert Harley)
2nd session
27 Nov. 1699-8 Mar. 1700: Cocks Diary, 35-59
6 Dec. 1699, 15 Jan. 1700: Chandler, iii. 110-22, 190-1
6 Dec. 1699: Add. 70160 (Robert Harley)
15 Jan. 1700: Cobbett, Parlty. Hist. v. 1203-15
13 Feb. 1700: Som. RO, Sanford mss, DD/SF 4107 (a) (Edward Clarke*)
1701 Parliament (1st Parliament of 1701)
10 Feb.-?30 May 1701: Cocks Diary, 61-166
10 Feb. 1701: NMM, Sergison mss, Ser/103, ff. 62-7 (?Charles Sergison*)
14, 15 Feb. 1701: HLRO, H.C. Lib mss 12, f. 63 (Salwey Winnington)
14 Apr. 1701: Cobbett, Parlty. Hist. v. 1245-6
1701-2 Parliament (2nd Parliament of 1701)
9 Jan.-16 Feb. 1702: Cobbett, Parlty. Hist. v. 1333-9
27 Jan.-12 May 1702: Cocks Diary, 187-288
1702 Parliament
1st session
23 Dec. 1702: Chandler, iii. 245
2nd session
25 Nov. 1703: The Proceedings of Both Houses of Parliament ... upon the Bill to Prevent Occasional Conformity ... (1710), 36-40
25 Nov. 1703, 17-26 Jan. 1704: Chandler, iii. 280-3, 308-87
25 Nov. 1703, 24 Jan. 1704: Cobbett, Parlty. Hist. vi. 153-5, 231-302
24 Jan. 1704: Add. 70330 (Robert Harley*)
3rd session
14, 28 Nov. 1704: The Proceedings of Both Houses of Parliament ... upon the Bill to Prevent Occasional Conformity ... (1710), 56-59
28 Nov. 1704: Cobbett, Parlty. Hist. vi. 359-62
1705 Parliament
1st session
25 Oct., 14 Dec. 1705, 27 Feb. 1706: Cobbett, Parlty. Hist. vi. 450, 474, 514
4, 8, 19 Dec. 1705, 10-21 Jan.1706: Cam. Misc. xxiii. 39-81 (Grey Neville*)
8 Dec. 1705: Cam Misc. xxiii. 82-84
2nd session
4 Feb. 1707: An Impartial View of the Two Late Parliaments ... (1711), 73-74
4, 8, 21 Feb. 1707: Chandler, iv. 54-55, 57
4 Feb. 1707: Cobbett, Parlty. Hist. vi. 560-1
1707 Parliament (First Parliament of Great Britain)
25 Nov. 1707: Cobbett, Parlty. Hist. vi. 603-4
1708 Parliament
1st session
16 Nov. 1708, 18 Jan., 5 Feb. 1709: Chandler, iv. 98-99, 111-13
18 Jan., 5 Feb. 1709: Cobbett, Parlty. Hist. vi. 778-9, 780
8 Feb. 1709: [W. Pittis,] The History of the Present Parliament (1711), 202-4
2nd session
13 Dec. 1709, 4 Feb. 1710: Cobbett, Parlty. Hist. vi. 805-6, 888-91
4 Feb. 1710: Chandler, iv. 140-4
22 Mar. 1710: Yale Univ. Beinecke Lib. Osborn mss, box 21, no. 22 (anon., ‘Account of the Trial of Dr Sacheverell’)
1710 Parliament
1st session
25, 29 Nov., 15 Dec. 1710: Cobbett, Parlty. Hist. vi. 923-5, 930, 932-4
29 Nov. 1710: An Impartial View of the Two Late Parliaments ... (1711), 263-5
29 Nov. 1710: Chandler, iv. 170-2
21 Dec. 1710, 11 Jan.-26 Mar. 1711: Cam. Misc. xxxi. 327-34 (Sir Arthur Kaye, 3rd Bt.*)
2nd session
8 Dec. 1711: Cam. Misc. xxxi. 335 (Sir Arthur Kaye, 3rd Bt.)
17 Jan., 17 June 1712: Chandler, iv. 245-7, 331
17 Jan., 22 May 1712: Cobbett, Parlty. Hist. vi. 1067-75, 1133-5
3rd session
10 Apr.-1 July 1713: Chandler, iv. 338, v. 6-48
14 May, 9-15 June 1713: Cobbett, Parlty. Hist. vi. 1211-13, 1220-3
1713 Parliament
1st session
16 Feb.-24 June 1714: Chandler, v. 58-151
16 Feb., 11-18 Mar., 1 June 1714: Cobbett, Parlty. Hist. vi. 1252-4, 1264, 1327, 1349-51
11 Mar. -12 June 1714: Bull. IHR, xxxiv. 211-17 ( Sir Edward Knatchbull, 4th Bt.*)
18 Mar., 15, 22 Apr. 1714: Hist. of Parl. Douglas diary trans. (Oley Douglas*)
22 Apr. 1714: HMC 15th Rep. VII. 213-16
1 June 1714: Cam. Misc. xxxi. 340 (Sir Arthur Kaye, 3rd Bt.)
2nd session
1-12 Aug. 1714: Chandler, vi. 1-12
1-21 Aug. 1714: Cobbett, Parlty. Hist. vii. 1-21
