Die Mercurii, 1 Septembr, 1647 a declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, concerning soldiers that resort to Westminster for arrears. England and Wales. Parliament. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A37712 of text R39472 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing E1378A). 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 A37712 Wing E1378A ESTC R39472 18420930 ocm 18420930 107549 2240876332

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A37712) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 107549) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1632:30) Die Mercurii, 1 Septembr, 1647 a declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, concerning soldiers that resort to Westminster for arrears. England and Wales. Parliament. 1 broadside. Printed for Edward Husband ..., London : Octob. 23,1647. Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library. eng England and Wales. -- Army. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649. A37712 R39472 (Wing E1378A). civilwar no Die Mercurii, 1 Septembr, 1647 a declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, concerning soldiers that resort to Westminste England and Wales. Parliament 1647 1 371 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. 2008-07 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-08 Sampled and proofread 2008-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
Die Mercurii , 1 Septembr . 1647. A DECLARATION OF THE LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT , Concerning Soldiers that resort to Westminster for Arrears .

THe Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled , taking into their serious consideration the great inconvenience and danger which daily doth or may accrew by the resort of divers persons to the doors of both Houses , under pretence of Arrears to them due , the greatest part of them being persons evil-affected to the Parliament and Kingdom , and their coming thither being for the most part ( though under other pretences ) to disturb them in their proceedings ; And likewise remembring the effectual course by them taken by their late Instructions bearing date 28 May last , for the determining of all Accompts , so that there can be no colour of any such resort as aforesaid , except it be of such who are unwilling the truth of their Accompts should appear ; Do hereby Order and Declare , That henceforth no person or persons shall presume to resort thither under any such pretence ; both Houses having formerly Ordered , That the Committee for the Accompts of the whole Kingdom , or other Committees authorized for that purpose , shall present Rolls of such Accompts so determined to both Houses , and not otherwise , where those persons concerned herein shall receive such further assurance and satisfaction as both Houses shall finde to be just : And in case after the publication hereof , any person shall presume contrary to this Declaration , The Guards attending on either or both Houses , are hereby required to seize upon them , and keep them in safe custody ; And if upon Examination by the Committee of Complaints , it be found that there is any Arrear due to any such persons , every such sum of Money shall be and is forfeit for his or their Contempt , and such further punishment upon others , as both Houses shall appoint .

H : Elsynge , Cler. Parl. D. Com.

London , Printed for Edward Husband , Printer to the Honorable House of Commons , Octob. 23. 1647.