Thursday the thirteenth of August, 1657. At the Council at VVhite-hall. His Highness the Lord Protector and his Privy Council, taking notice of the hand of God, which at this time is gone out against this nation, in the present visitation by sickness that is much spread over the land, ... England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A83936 of text R212053 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.20[62]). 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 A83936 Wing E2926D Thomason 669.f.20[62] ESTC R212053 99870706 99870706 163478 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. A83936) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163478) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 247:669f20[62]) Thursday the thirteenth of August, 1657. At the Council at VVhite-hall. His Highness the Lord Protector and his Privy Council, taking notice of the hand of God, which at this time is gone out against this nation, in the present visitation by sickness that is much spread over the land, ... England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell) 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed by Henry Hills and John Field, Printers to His Highness the Lord Protector, London : 1657. Title from caption and first lines of text. Signed: Hen: Scobell, Clerk of the Council. Friday, 21 August, appointed a day of humiliation for London, &c. in view of the present sickness. -- Cf. Steele. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Plague -- England -- Early works to 1800. Fasts and feasts -- England -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. A83936 R212053 (Thomason 669.f.20[62]). civilwar no Thursday the thirteenth of August, 1657. At the Council at VVhite-hall. His Highness the Lord Protector and his Privy Council, taking notice England and Wales. Lord Protector 1657 221 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 2007-12 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2007-12 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion blazon or coat of arms Thursday the Thirteenth of August , 1657. At the Council at White-hall . HIs Highness the Lord Protector and His Privy Council , taking notice of the Hand of God , which at this time is gone out against this Nation , in the present Visitation by Sickness that is much spread over the Land , which calls upon the People of this Nation to humble themselves in a solemn maner before the Lord , and to seek his Face in reference thereunto ; His Highness and the Council have thought fit to set apart to Morrow Seven-night being Friday , the One and twentieth day of this Moneth , for a Day of Solemn Fasting and Humiliation for the ends aforesaid , to be observed within the Cities of London and Westminster , and the late Lines of Communication , and Weekly Bills of Mortality , and all other places in this Nation to which notice hereof shall come ; not doubting but the People of God in other parts of the Nation also will be forward in their particular Congregations to a Duty so necessary at this time . Hen : Scobell , Clerk of the Council . LONDON : Printed by Henry Hills and John Field , Printers to His Highness the Lord Protector . 1657.