A proclamation by His Highness and the Parliament. Whereas the knights, citizens, and burgesses of the Parliament of England, Scotland and Ireland, taking into their consideration, the duty incumbent upon them, to provide for the future peace and settlement of the government of these nations, ... England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A80968 of text R24799 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.20[60]). 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 A80968 Wing C7137 Thomason 669.f.20[60] ESTC R24799 99872070 99872070 163476 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. A80968) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163476) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 247:669f20[60]) A proclamation by His Highness and the Parliament. Whereas the knights, citizens, and burgesses of the Parliament of England, Scotland and Ireland, taking into their consideration, the duty incumbent upon them, to provide for the future peace and settlement of the government of these nations, ... England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell) Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed by Henry Hills and Iohn Field, Printers to His Highness, London : 1657. Title from caption and first lines of text. Dated at end: Given at Westminster the 26. day of June, 1657. The Parliament have petitioned the Lord Protector to exercise the office of Chief Magistrate of these nations, and he has consented. All persons to take note and conform themselves to the law. This to be proclaimed in London and the country. -- Cf. Steele. Reproductions of the originals in the British Library (Thomason Tracts) and the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery (Early English Books). eng Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. A80968 R24799 (Thomason 669.f.20[60]). civilwar no A proclamation by His Highness and the Parliament. Whereas the knights, citizens, and burgesses of the Parliament of England, Scotland and I England and Wales. Lord Protector 1657 329 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 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2007-11 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A PROCLAMATION BY His Highness and the Parliament . WHereas the Knights , Citizens , and Burgesses of the Parliament of England , Scotland and Ireland , taking into their consideration , the duty incumbent upon them , to provide for the future Peace and Settlement of the Government of these Nations , according to the Laws and Customes of the same , by their Humble Petition and advice , have presented their desires unto His Highnes Oliver Lord Protector , that He would by and under the Name and Stile of Lord Protector of the Common-wealth of England , Scotland , and Ireland , and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging , Hold , and Exercise the Office of Chief Magistrate of these Nations ; Whereunto the Lord Protector , upon due and mature Consideration of the said Petition and Advice , hath consented : And His Highness the Lord Protector and the Parliament , judging it necessary , that Publication be made of the Premisses ; Have thought meet , and do hereby strictly Charge and Command all and every person and persons , of what Quality and Condition soever , in any of the said three Nations , to take notice of the Premisses , and to conform and submit themselves unto the Government so established . And the Lord Mayor of the City of London , and all Sheriffs , Mayors , Bailiffs , and other Publick Ministers and Officers , whom this may concern , are required to cause this Proclamation , together with the said Petition and Advice , to be forthwith Published in the City of London , and the respective Counties , Cities , Corporations and Market-Towns , to the end that none may have cause to pretend ignorance in this behalf . Given at Westminster the 26. day of June , 1657. London , printed by Henry Hills and Iohn Field , Printers to His Highness , 1657.