A proclamation touching the election of fit persons to serve in Parliament. By the King. Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A79382 of text R211618 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.24[9]). 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. 4 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 A79382 Wing C3590 Thomason 669.f.24[9] ESTC R211618 99870329 99870329 163740 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. A79382) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163740) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 247:669f24[9]) A proclamation touching the election of fit persons to serve in Parliament. By the King. Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685. England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II) 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed for M.B., London : Anno, 1660. Dated at end: Given at our court the sixth of Novemb. Annotation on Thomason copy: "March 14. 1659". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng England and Wales. -- Parliament -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. A79382 R211618 (Thomason 669.f.24[9]). civilwar no A proclamation touching the election of fit persons to serve in Parliament. By the King. Charles II, King of England 1660 567 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. 2007-10 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-10 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-11 Emma (Leeson) Huber Sampled and proofread 2007-11 Emma (Leeson) Huber Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A PROCLAMATION Touching the Election Of fit Persons to serve in PARLIAMENT . By the King . HAving occasion at this time to deliberate upon divers great and weighty Affairs , highly tending to the continuance and further setling of the peaceable Government and Sasety of this our Kingdom , whereof God hath given us the Charge , We have thought good according to the laudable Custome of our Progenitors , to crave the Advice and assistance herein of our well affected Subjects , by calling a Parliament . And though there were no more to be had in consideration but the present face of Christendom so miserably and dangerously distracted at this time , besides a number of other great and weighty Affairs that we are to resolve upon ; We have more then sufficient reason to wish and desire ( if ever at any time , especially at this ) that the Knights and Burgesses that shall serve in Parliament , be , according to the old Institutions , chosen of the gravest , ablest , and best affected minds that maybe found : And therefore out of our care of the Commom Good , whereof themselves are also participant , We do hereby admonish all our loving Subjects that have Votes in the Elections , that choice be made of Persons approved for their sincerity in Religion , and not of any that is noted either of superstitious blindness one way , or of turbulent Humours another way , but of such as shall be found zealous and obedient Children to their Mother-Church . And as to the Knights of Shires , That they cast their eyes upon the worthiest men of all sorts of Knights and Gentlemen , that are Guides and Lights of their Countryes , of good experience , and great Integrity , men that lead an honest and exemplary life in their Countryes , doing us good service therein ; And no Banckrupts or discontented persons that cannot fish but in troubled waters . And for the Burgesses , That they make choice of them that best understand the state of their Countryes , Cities or Burroughs : And where such may not be had within their Corporations , then of other grave and discreet men fit to serve in so worthy an Assembly . For we may well fore-see , how ill effects the bad choise of unfit men may produce , if the House should be supplyed with Banckrupts , and necessitous persons , that may desire long Parliaments for their private Protections , or with young and unexperienced men , that are not ripe and mature for so grave a Counsel ; or with men of mean Qualities in themselves , who may only serve to applaud the Opinion of others on whom they do depend ; or yet with curious and wrangling Lawyers , who may seek reputation by stirring needless Questions . But we wish all our good Subjects so to understand these our Admonitions , as that we no way mean to barre them of their lawfull Freedom in Election , according to their Fundamental Laws and laudable Customes of this our Kingdom , and especially in the times of good and settled Government . Given at our Court the sixth of Novemb. LONDON , Printed for M. B. Anno , 1660.