Die Veneris, 6[o] Decembris. 1644. Be it ordained by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, that John Towse, Thomas Foot, John Kendrick, Thomas Cullum, and Symon Edmonds, Esquires, and aldermen of the Citie of London; ... England and Wales. Parliament. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A82557 of text R212202 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.9[16]). 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 A82557 Wing E1258 Thomason 669.f.9[16] ESTC R212202 99870847 99870847 161114 2240953393

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A82557) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 161114) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 245:669f9[16]) Die Veneris, 6[o] Decembris. 1644. Be it ordained by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, that John Towse, Thomas Foot, John Kendrick, Thomas Cullum, and Symon Edmonds, Esquires, and aldermen of the Citie of London; ... England and Wales. Parliament. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed by Richard Cotes and John Raworth, London : 1644. Title from heading and first lines of text. Signed: Jo; Browne, Cler. Parliamentorum. Bracketed "o" in title is in superscript. An ordinance of Parliament appointing commissioners for the excise of meat and salt. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Excise tax -- England -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. A82557 R212202 (Thomason 669.f.9[16]). civilwar no Die Veneris, 6⁰ Decembris. 1644. Be it ordained by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, that John Towse, Thomas Foot, John Kendric England and Wales. Parliament. 1644 1 322 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
Die Veneris , 6ᵒ Decembris . 1644.

BE it Ordained by the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled , That John Towse , Thomas Foot , John Kendrick , Thomas Cullum and Symon Edmonds , Esquires , and Aldermen of the Citie of London ; John Lamot and Edward Claxton of the Citie of London , Esquires , the present Commissioners of the Excise and New-Impost , in and thorow the whole Kingdom of England , Dominion of Wales , and Town of Berwick , shall and may do and execute all and every the Clauses , Articles , and other thing or things , Ordained , Mentioned and Contained in the Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament , bearing date the ninth of January , 1643. touching the Excise of Flesh-Victuals and Salt : As also the Ordinance dated the third of August , 1644 , entituled , An Ordinance Declaratory , for the better Regulating and Levying of the Excise of Flesh , within the Cities of London and Westminster , Suburbs and Lines of Communication . Which said two Ordinances are hereby Ordained to stand in force , and be managed by the said Commissioners , for one yeer next ensuing the ninth of January , 1644. to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever ; who shall receive the like Allowance of six pence in every pound , for the Receipt . And be it further Ordained , That as well all and every the said Commissioners , Deputies and other their Officers , as all and every other person and persons which shall do any thing in execution or performance of this present Ordinance , shall be therein from time to time protected , and saved harmlesse , by the Power and Authority of both Houses of Parliament .

Jo ; Browne , Cler. Parliamentorum .

London , Printed by Richard Cotes and John Raworth . 1644.