By the Committee of Safety of the Common-wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland A proclamation touching the summoning of a Parliament. England and Wales. Committee of Safety. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A84452 of text R211385 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.22[24]). 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. 3 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 A84452 Wing E748 Thomason 669.f.22[24] ESTC R211385 99870114 99870114 163607 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. A84452) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163607) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 247:669f22[24]) By the Committee of Safety of the Common-wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland A proclamation touching the summoning of a Parliament. England and Wales. Committee of Safety. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed by Henry Hills, and John Field, Printers to the Committee of Safety, London : [1659] Dated at end: Given at Whitehall this 14. day of December. 1659. Annotation on Thomason copy: "xber [i.e. December] 15. 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. A84452 R211385 (Thomason 669.f.22[24]). civilwar no By the Committee of Safety of the Common-wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland. A proclamation touching the summoning of a Parliament. England and Wales. Committee of Safety. 1659 490 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. 2007-09 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 By the Committee of Safety Of the Common-wealth of England , Scotland , and Ireland . A PROCLAMATION Touching the Summoning of a PARLIAMENT . THe Council of Officers of the Army , upon consideration of the present condition of affairs in this Commonwealth , and the great distractions now fomented by the enemies thereof ; and being satisfied that the most probable means under God for the appeasing of all discontents , quieting the peoples minds , and preserving of their Spiritual and Civil Rights and Liberties , will be , that a Parliament , without a single Person as chief Magistrate , Kingship or House of Peers , may speedily be called , who , through the gracious assistance of our God , may proceed to such a settlement of the Government of this Commonwealth , as may be for the security of the Cause wherein the good People of these Nations have been , and still are engaged ; And that their intentions of setting up the Civil Authority , and being subservient thereunto may be brought to effect , They have held it their Duty by all good means within their power to be instrumental in procuring the same , and in order thereunto , have made known to the Committee of Safety their desires herein ; and that the Committee would take speedy Order that the same may be put in execution for the ends before mentioned . Whereupon this Committee being ready to contribute their utmost endeavours in so good a work , and so much tending to the satisfaction of all good men , and to the preservation of the Peace , Liberties and Rights of this Commonwealth , Have thought fit , and do hereby publish and declare , That Writs under the Great Seal of England , shall forthwith be issued for the summoning of a Parliament , as aforesaid , to be held in the usual place at Westminster , upon the four and twentieth day of January next ensuing ; And this Committee do hereby exhort and require all persons of what condition soever , that in the mean time they do not act or promote any thing to the disturbance of the publique Peace , but that they do demean themselves peaceably according to the Law , expecting and resolving to submit unto what the Parliament shall in their wisedom think fit to Order concerning the great affairs of these distracted Nations , wherein they humbly pray and hope that the Lord will be pleased to vouchsafe his gracious presence and assistance . Given at Whitehall this 14. day of December . 1659. ORdered by the Committee of Safety , That this Proclamation be forthwith Printed and Published . Will. Robinson , Clerk of the Committee of Safety . London , Printed by Henry Hills , and John Field , Printers to the Committee of Safety .