An act declaring and constituting the people of England to be a commonwealth and free-state
         England and Wales.
      
       
         This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A39518 of text R25373 in the  English Short Title Catalog (Wing E986). Textual changes  and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more  computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life.  The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with  MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish.  This text has not been fully proofread 
       Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image.
       
         EarlyPrint Project
         Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO
         2017
         A39518
         Wing E986
         ESTC R25373
         08940677
         ocm 08940677
         42033
         
           
            This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of
             Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal
            . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.
          
        
      
       
         Early English books online.
      
       
         (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A39518)
         Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 42033)
         Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1283:1)
      
       
         
           
             An act declaring and constituting the people of England to be a commonwealth and free-state
             England and Wales.
          
           1 broadside.
           
             Printed for Edward Husband,
             London :
             1649.
          
           
             Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library.
          
        
      
    
     
       
         eng
      
       
         
           Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 -- Sources.
           Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1649-1660.
        
      
    
       A39518  R25373  (Wing E986).  civilwar no An act declaring and constituting the people of England to be a commonwealth and free-state. England and Wales 1649    206 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text  has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription.  
        2007-12 TCP
        Assigned for keying and markup
      
        2008-01 SPi Global
        Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images
      
        2008-02 Mona Logarbo
        Sampled and proofread
      
        2008-02 Mona Logarbo
        Text and markup reviewed and edited
      
        2008-09 pfs
        Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
      
    
  
   
     
       
       
         
           
             seal or coat of arms of the Commonwealth
          
        
         
           An
           Act
           Declaring
           and
           Constituting
           the
           People
           of
           
             England
          
           to
           be
           a
           Commonwealth
           and
           Free-State
           .
        
         
           BE
           it
           Declared
           and
           Enacted
           by
           this
           present
           
             Parliament
             ,
          
           and
           by
           the
           authority
           of
           the
           same
           ,
           That
           the
           People
           of
           
             England
             ,
          
           and
           of
           all
           the
           Dominions
           and
           Territories
           thereunto
           belonging
           ,
           are
           and
           shall
           be
           ,
           and
           are
           hereby
           Constituted
           ,
           Made
           ,
           Established
           and
           Confirmed
           ,
           to
           be
           a
           Common-wealth
           and
           Free-State
           :
           And
           shall
           from
           henceforth
           be
           Governed
           as
           a
           Commonwealth
           and
           Free-State
           ,
           by
           the
           Supreme
           Authority
           of
           this
           Nation
           ,
           The
           Representatives
           of
           the
           People
           in
           Parliament
           ,
           and
           by
           such
           as
           they
           shall
           appoint
           and
           constitute
           as
           Officers
           and
           Ministers
           under
           them
           for
           the
           good
           of
           the
           People
           ,
           and
           that
           without
           any
           King
           or
           House
           of
           Lords
           .
        
         
           
             
               Die
               Sabbathi
               ,
               
                 
                   19
                
                 Maii.
                 
                   1649.
                   
                
              
            
          
           
             ORdered
             by
             the
             Commons
             assembled
             in
             Parliament
             ,
             That
             this
             Act
             be
             forthwith
             Printed
             and
             Published
             .
          
           
             
               Hen
               :
               Scobell
               ,
               Cleric
               .
               Parliamenti
               .
            
          
        
      
    
     
       
         
           
             London
             ,
          
           Printed
           for
           
             Edward
             Husband
             ,
          
           Printer
           to
           the
           Honorable
           House
           of
           Commons
           ,
           and
           are
           to
           be
           sold
           at
           his
           Shop
           in
           Fleetstreet
           ,
           at
           the
           Sign
           of
           the
           Golden-Dragon
           ,
           near
           the
           Inner-Temple
           ,
           
             May
          
           21.
           1649.