Jovis primo die Decembr', 1692, annoque regni Regis & Reginæ, Willielmi & Mariæ ... this court this day taking that divers tradesmen and others have taken upon them an evil practice upon the public exchange ... City of London (England). This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A49042 of text R39642 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing L2865E). 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 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A49042 Wing L2865E ESTC R39642 18460038 ocm 18460038 107726 2248549874

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 Early English books online text creation partnership. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. A49042) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 107726) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1638:1) Jovis primo die Decembr', 1692, annoque regni Regis & Reginæ, Willielmi & Mariæ ... this court this day taking that divers tradesmen and others have taken upon them an evil practice upon the public exchange ... City of London (England). 1 broadside. Printed by Samuel Roycroft ..., [London] : 1692. At head of title: Fleet Mayor. Second part of title taken from first three lines of text. Order forbidding bets on outcome of the war against France. Reproduction of original in the Guildhall, London. eng Gambling -- England -- London. London (England) -- History -- 17th century. eebo Jovis primo die Decembr', 1692, annoque regni Regis & Reginæ, Willielmi & Mariæ ... this court this day taking that divers tradesmen and others have t Corporation of London 1692 3 322 1 0 0 0 0 0 31.06 C The rate of 31.06 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2013-05 Assigned for keying and markup 2013-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2013-07 Sampled and proofread 2013-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2014-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
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J●vis Primo die Decembr' , 1692 ; Annoque Regni Regis & Reginae , WILLIELMI & MARIAE , Angl ' , &c. Quarto .

THis COURT this Day taking Notice , That divers Tradesmen and Others have taken upon them an Evil Practice upon the Publick Exchange , and elsewhere within the City and Liberties thereof , To foretel and raise Suspicions of Evil Success to Their MAJESTIES in the War against France ; And thereupon to Lay Wagers , and draw Pollicies upon the Events of Besieging Forts and Cities , and other the Successes of War ; And by their false and scandalous Insinuations endeavour to Discourage Their MAJESTIES Subjects in their due Allegiance : For prevention whereof for the Future , and for the better Government of this City in that behalf for Time to come , This Court doth think it necessary to Publish and Declare , and do hereby Publish and Declare , That all such Wagers , Pollicies and Practices , are highly to the Prejudice of Their MAJESTIES and of Their Allies , and to the good Government of this City , and tend to the ill Ends aforesaid : And therefore do Admonish all persons whatsoever , within this City and the Liberties thereof , That for the Future they do not presume to Lay any such Wagers , nor Draw , Expose , or Enter into any such Pollicies : And doth Order , That no Breker , Clerk of Insurance , or other person whatsoever , upon the Exchange , or elsewhere within this City or the Liberties thereof , do Lay any such Wager , or make or solicit any such Wager or Pollicy of Insurance , as they will Answer the same under the utmost Penalties of the Laws .

Goodfellow .

Printed by SAMVEL ROYCROFT , Printer to the Honourable City of LONDON , 1692.