A declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament· Martis ult. Februarii, 1642 The Lords and Commons taking into consideration, the miserable distractions and calamities, with which this whole kingdome and nation is now infested, ... Proceedings. 1643-02-28 England and Wales. Parliament. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A82618 of text R211760 in the English Short Title Catalog. 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. 2KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A82618 Wing E1348 Thomason 669.f.5[140] ESTC R211760 99897148

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 eng Courts -- Law and legislation -- England -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- England eebo A declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament· Martis ult. Februarii, 1642. The Lords and Commons taking into consideration, the mise (null) 1643 2 361 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. 2014-03 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-09 Sampled and proofread 2014-09 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A DECLARATION OF THE Lords and Commons Assembled in PARLIAMENT . Martis ult . Februarii , 1642.

THe Lords and Commons taking into Consideration , the miserable Distractions and Calamities , with which this whole Kingdome and Nation is now infested , the Face and Cruell Effects of an unnaturall Civill War , being too visible and apparent in all the parts thereof , and the Power of the Sword so prevailing , as that the Publique Iustice of the Kingdom cannot be expected to be administred in a just and indifferent way , but that the Iudges and Ministers thereof may be terrified and awed by the Power of Armed men , And also for preventing of Inconveniences which may happen by Assemblies of multitudes of people in these times of miserable Distraction , have thought fit to Order , And the said Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled , doe Ordaine and Declare , that the severall Iudges and Iustices of Assize , and Nisi Prius , and Iustices of Oier and Terminer , and Goale delivery , and their Associats , and the Clerkes of the Assize and every of them , of , or within any of the Counties or Cities of England and Dominion of Wales , doe forbeare to Execute any of the said Commissions , or to hold or keepe any Assizes , or Goale delivery at any time during this Lent vacation , or to issue out any Warrant for summoning the Assizes within any County in which they shall be appoynted Iudges or Iustices ; And if they have alreadie issued any , that they forthwith revoke and recall the same , and herein their ready and perfect obedience is expected and required , as they will answer the Contempt and neglect hereof , before the Lords and Commons in Parliament .

Martis ult . Februarii , 1642.

O Ordered by the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament , that this Declaration shall be forthwith Printed and published .

John Browne Cleri . Parliamentorum .

March 1. London Printed for John Wright , in the Old-bailey . 1642 ,