The Liverpool tractate
Subtitle: an eighteenth century manual on the procedure of the House of Commons
By: edited with an introduction by Catherine Strateman ...
Contributors: Strateman, Catherine, 1912- ed.; Liverpool, Charles Jenkinson, Earl of, 1727-1808.; British Museum.
Published: 1937
Language: eng
Number of pages: 107
Subjects: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons -- Rules and practice.
Notes: Bibliography: p. lxxxi-xcii.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1937.
Vita.
Published also as Studies in history, economics and public law, ed. by the Faculty of Political Science of Columbia University, no. 430.
The tractate, Additional ms. 38456 in the British Museum, is v. 267 of the Liverpool papers, a collection of papers of Charles Jenkinson, first earl of Liverpool, and his sons, the second and third earls. The title-page of the tractate, composed about 1763, is lacking and evidence of its authorship is slight. cf. Introd.