By the King. His Majesties Proclamation forbidding the tendering or taking of a late Covenant, called, A solemne League and Covenant for Reformation, &c. England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A79020 of text R211989 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.7[47]). 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 2018 A79020 Wing C2658 Thomason 669.f.7[47] ESTC R211989 99870650 99870650 161028 2240946026

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. A79020) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 161028) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 245:669f7[47]) By the King. His Majesties Proclamation forbidding the tendering or taking of a late Covenant, called, A solemne League and Covenant for Reformation, &c. England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed by Leonard Lichfield, printer to the Vniversity, Oxford [i.e. London] : 1643. Actual place of publication from Wing. Dated at end: Given at Our Court at Oxford, this ninth day of October, in the nineteenth yeare of Our Reigne. With engraving of royal seal at head of document. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Solemn League and Covenant (1643). -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. eebo By the King. His Majesties proclamation forbidding the tendering or taking of a late Covenant, called, A solemne League and Covenant for Reformation, England and Wales. Sovereign 1643 1 274 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. 2008-03 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-07 Sampled and proofread 2009-02 Rekeyed and resubmitted 2009-03 Sampled and proofread 2009-03 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
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BY THE KING . His Majesties Proclamation forbidding the tendering or taking of a late Covenant , called , A solemne League and Covenant for Reformation , &c.

WHereas there is a Printed Paper , entituled , A solemne League and Covenant for Reformation , and defence of Religion , the Honour and Happinesse of the King , and the Peace and Safety of the three Kingdomes of England , Scotland and Ireland , pretended to be Ordered by the Commons in Parliament on the twenty first day of September last , to be Printed and Published ; Which Covenant though it seems to make specious expressions of Piety and Religion , is in Truth nothing else but a Trayterous and Seditious Combination against Vs , and against the established Religion and Lawes of this Kingdome , in pursuance of a Trayterous Designe , and endeavour to bring in forraigne Force to invade this Kingdome : We doe therefore straitly Charge and Command all Our loving Subjects , of what degree or quality soever , upon their Allegiance , that they presume not to take the said Seditious and Traiterous Covenant . And We doe likewise hereby forbid and inhibite all Our Subjects to impose , administer , or tender the said Covenant , as they and every of them will answer the Contrary at their utmost and extreamest Perills .

Given at Our Court at Oxford , this ninth day of October , in the nineteenth yeare of Our Reigne . God save the KING .

OXFORD , Printed by Leonard Lichfield , Printer to the Vniversity . 1643.