Wednesday the 27 August, 1651. Mr. Speaker, by way of report acquaints the House of the great appearance of the militiaes of London, Westminster, Southwarke, and the hamblets of the Tower, on Monday last in Finsbury feilds, ... England and Wales. Parliament. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A74131 of text R211350 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.16[22]). 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 A74131 Thomason 669.f.16[22] ESTC R211350 99870080 99870080 163179 2240954230

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A74131) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163179) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f16[22]) Wednesday the 27 August, 1651. Mr. Speaker, by way of report acquaints the House of the great appearance of the militiaes of London, Westminster, Southwarke, and the hamblets of the Tower, on Monday last in Finsbury feilds, ... England and Wales. Parliament. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1651] Title from opening lines of text. Place of publication and publication date inferred. Signed: Hen. Scobell Cler. Parliament. The speaker reports the appearance of the militia at Finsbury Fields on Monday, 25th inst.: whereon a vote of thanks is passed to the Lord Mayor, &c., of London, etc. for their affection to Parliament. Ald. Pennington, Sir John Bourchier, Ald. Atkin, and Ald. Allen to return thanks -- Cf. Steele. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Septemb. 1. 1651". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Militia -- Early works to 1800. London (England) -- History -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800. A74131 R211350 (Thomason 669.f.16[22]). civilwar no Wednesday the 27 August, 1651. Mr. speaker, by way of report acquaints the House of the great appearance of the militiaes of London, Westmin England and Wales. Parliament. 1651 1 250 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. 2008-06 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-01 Sampled and proofread 2009-01 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
Wednesday the 27 August , 1651.

MR. Speaker , by way of report acquaints the House of the great appearance of the Militiaes of London , Westminster , Southwarke , and the Hamblets of the Tower , on Monday last in Finsbury feilds , and their great Cheerefulnes and Readines manifested to the publick service . And likewise of the great care and affection of the Lord Major , Aldermen , Sheriffes , and Common-councell of the City of London , the Collonels , and Officers , and Souldiers of the Trained bands , and Voluntiers both horse and foot , and especially the great care and paines of Major Generall Skippon , in that service .

Resolved ,

That the thankes of the Parliament be returned to the Lord Major , and Aldermen , Sheriffes , and Common-councell of the City of London , and likewise to the severall Militiaes of London , Westminster , Southwarke , and the Hamblets of the Tower , and to the Collonels , Officers , and Souldiers ; and to the Trained bands , and Voluntiers , both horse and foot , for their great affection to the Parliament , in their cheerfull readines to serve the State , manifested at their last appearance in Finesbury feilds on Monday last .

Resolved ,

That Alderman Pennington , Sir John Bourchier , Alderman Atkin , and Alderman Allen , doe returne the thanks of the Parliament accordingly .

Hen. Scobell Cler. Parliament .