The tryal of John Hampden, Esq. (of Stoke-Mandeville in the county of Bucks) in the great case of ship-money [electronic resource] : between His Majesty K. Charles I. and that gentleman : wherein are inserted, the whole record in Latin and English : the several arguments of Council learned in the law , on both sides, in that most remarkable case at the bar : with the opinions of all the judges on the bench in the Exchequer-Chamber, &c. : as also Mr. St. John's speech in the House of Lords, Jan. 7, 1640, concerning ship-money : with Mr. Waller's speech to the House of Commons, April 22, 1640, on the same subject, and, his famous speech in Parliament, at a conference of both houses, in the painted-chamber, July 6, 1641, on the exhibiting articles, by the Commons, against Mr. Justice Crawley, one of the judges who gave judgment for the King in that cause : to which is added, The tryal of Thomas Harrison, clerk, for words spoken against Mr. Justice Hutton (when sitting afterwards upon the bench of the Court of Common-Pleas, in Westminster-Hall) accusing him of high treason, in delivering his opinion in the Exchequer-Chamber, that the King had no lawful power in levying the ship-money, and that he therefore denied the King's supremacy : with the proceedings thereupon, and his sentence by the court : the whole being printed from authentick manuscripts.

Hampden was tried, 1637-1638, in the Court of Exchequer Chamber, on a writ of scire facias brought in the Court of Exchequer, requiring him to show cause why he should not be charged with 20 shillings assessed upon him.