An act for the observation of a day of publique fasting and humiliation. England and Wales. Parliament. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A82457 of text R211486 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.16[52]). 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 A82457 Wing E1118 Thomason 669.f.16[52] ESTC R211486 99870209 99870209 163207 2240944896

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A82457) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163207) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f16[52]) An act for the observation of a day of publique fasting and humiliation. England and Wales. Parliament. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed by Iohn Field, Printer to the Parliament of England, London : 1652. Order to print dated: Friday the Fourth of June, 1652. Signed: Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti. With Parliamentary seal at head of text. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Fasts and feasts -- England -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. A82457 R211486 (Thomason 669.f.16[52]). civilwar no An Act for the observation of a day of publique fasting and humiliation. England and Wales. Parliament. 1652 1 392 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. 2007-10 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-10 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-11 Sampled and proofread 2007-11 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
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AN ACT For the Observation of a Day of Publique Fasting and Humiliation .

THe Parliament acknowledging from the bottom of their Hearts the abundant Mercies of their good God continually heaped upon this Nation , Notwithstanding their great Vnworthiness and unproportionable Returns of Thanks in their Lives and Actions ; And being sensible withal of those new Dangers which this Nation seems to be threatned with , and hath most justly Deserved , Have thought fit to have recourse to the same God by publique Humiliation and Prayer , for averting his Iudgements , and removing those Sins which otherwise may call for those Iudgements , and for obtaining a Blessing upon the Councels and Forces of this Commonwealth both by Sea and Land : Be it therefore Enacted by this present Parliament , and by Authority thereof , That a day of solemn Fasting and Humiliation be set apart to be observed on Wednesday the Ninth of June , One thousand six hundred fifty two , in the Cities of London and Westminster , and within the late Lines of Communication and weekly Bills of Mortality ; and upon Wednesday the Thirtieth of June following , in all other Cities , Towns and places within England , Wales , and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed : And that the Ministers of the respective Parishes and places aforesaid , be and hereby are required and enjoyned to give notice hereof on the Lords-Day next preceding the day so to be observed : To the end the people may more diligently attend the publique Exercises of Gods Worship and Service on that Day ; And for the better observation thereof , The Parliament doth inhibit and forbid the holding or use of all Fairs , Markets , and servile Works of mens ordinary Callings on the respective Days aforesaid : And all Majors , Sheriffs , Iustices of Peace , Constables , and other Officers , be and are hereby enjoyned to take special care of the due Observation of the said Day accordingly .

Friday the Fourth of June , 1652.

ORdered by the Parliament , That this Act be forthwith printed and published .

Hen: Scobell , Cleric . Parliamenti .

London , Printed by Iohn Field , Printer to the Parliament of England . 1652.