By the Mayor, to every minister within the city of London, liberties, line of communication, and bils of mortality City of London (England). Lord Mayor. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A49053 of text R37988 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing L2878F). 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 A49053 Wing L2878F ESTC R37988 17159377 ocm 17159377 106014 2240849882

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A49053) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 106014) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1619:15) By the Mayor, to every minister within the city of London, liberties, line of communication, and bils of mortality City of London (England). Lord Mayor. 1 broadside. Printed by Richard Cotes, printer to the honourable city of London, [London] : [1644] Signed: 30 March anno dom. 1644. John Wollaston, Mayor. First line reads: The extraordinary blessing of God upon the forces under the command of Sir William Waller & Sir William Belfour against the army led by Sir Ralph Hopton. Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library. eng Winchester (England), Battle of, March 29, 1644. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649. A49053 R37988 (Wing L2878F). civilwar no By the Mayor, to every minister within the city of London, liberties, line of communication, and bils of mortality Corporation of London 1644 1 448 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. 2007-12 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-02 Sampled and proofread 2008-02 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
By the Mayor . To every Minister within the City of London , Liberties , Line of Communication , and Bils of Mortality .

THe extraordinary blessing of God upon the Forces under the Command of Sir William Waller , & Sir William Belfour , against the Army led by Sir Ralph Hopton , for the destruction of the Parliament , this City and Kingdome , in a Battaile neere Winchester , yesterday being Fryday , the 29 of March instant , which continued from eight a clocke in the morning untill night , wherein the enemy was absolutely routed , and pursued many miles with good execution , being signified unto mee by the most Honourable Committee of both Kingdoms , requires a more solemne Thankesgiving then upon so short warning can bee performed ; especially considering that this mercy hath been beyond expectation cast in from heaven into our bosomes so soon after our late Fasting and humiliation after that sad blow about Newark ; I do heartily ( according to the order of the said Committee of both Kingdoms , ) desire & require you to morrow , being the Lords Day , to give notice of this goodnesse , to your Congregation , using your best endevours to quicken them to the highest pitch of thankfulnesse to the God of our Mercies , and to ingage their hearts and hands yet further , To helpe the Lord against the Mighty , with their prayers and all others , helpes of Money , Armes , Horse , Men , or other provisions for the instant , making up and supplying of a body of Horse and Foot to go out and follow the enemy , to prevent the rallying of his men , or raising of new Forces to doe further mischiefe , that God may give a speedy end to the present Calamities , and restore a stable Peace in this afflicted Nation , to the comfort of all Gods people in all the Kingdomes .

And what God shall move the hearts of men to subscribe and contribute , or what men they shall send out or maintaine , to this most necessary service , not onely my selfe , but the Committee of the Militia , do make it our joynt request that you , with some others well affected , would set down in writing , and return upon Monday morning next without faile , to the Committee of the Militia at Guildhall .

Dated this 30 of March , Anno Dom. 1644 . John Wollaston , Mayor .

Printed by Richard Cotes , Printer to the Honourable City of LONDON .