A declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament. That none shall be elected into any office whatsoever, that hath been in the Kings army, ayding or assisting the enemy against the Parliament, within the kingdom of England, dominion of Wales, and town of Berwicke. Die Jovis 9 Septemb. 1647. England and Wales. Parliament. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A82712 of text R210647 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.11[80]). 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 A82712 Wing E1465 Thomason 669.f.11[80] ESTC R210647 99869425 99869425 162732 2240948058

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A82712) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 162732) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f11[80]) A declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament. That none shall be elected into any office whatsoever, that hath been in the Kings army, ayding or assisting the enemy against the Parliament, within the kingdom of England, dominion of Wales, and town of Berwicke. Die Jovis 9 Septemb. 1647. England and Wales. Parliament. 1 sheet ([1] p.) for John Wright, at the Kings Head in the Old Bailey, Printed at London : 1647. No person that hath been in arms against the Parliament, etc. may be elected mayor or any officer in England and Wales; if elected the election is void. This does not extend to persons who have been discharged from seqestration -- Cf. Steele. Order to print signed: Jo. Brown Cler. Parliament. Annotation on Thomason copy: "7ber [i.e. September] 11". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng England and Wales. -- Parliament -- Early works to 1800. Royalists -- England -- 17th century -- 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. A82712 R210647 (Thomason 669.f.11[80]). civilwar no A declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament. That none shall be elected into any office whatsoever, that hath been in the England and Wales. Parliament. 1647 1 310 1 0 0 0 0 0 32 C The rate of 32 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 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
A Declaration of the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament . That none shall be elected into any Office whatsoever , that hath been in the Kings Army , ayding or assisting the Enemy against the Parliament , within the Kingdom of England , Dominion of Wales , and Town of B●rwicke . Die Jovis 9 Septemb. 1647.

BE it Declared , Ordered , and Ordained by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled , That no Person whatsoever , that hath been in Armes against the Parliament , or hath been ayding or assisting the Forces of the Enemy , or hath been , or is Sequestred , shall be elected , or constituted Mayor , Alderman , Bailiffe , Sheriffe , Justice of Peace , Steward of any Court , Constable , or any other Officer in any County , City , Borough , or Towne corporate , within the Kingdome of England , Dominion of Wales , and Towne of Berwicke ; And in case any such Persons as aforesaid be elected into any of the Offices aforesaid , in any of the aforesaid Places ; The Lords and Commons doe Declare all such elections to be voyd and null ; Provided , that this shall not extend to any Person or Persons who have been , or shall be unduely Sequestred as Delinquents , and have been , or shall be therefore discharged of the said undue Sequestration , by both Houses of Parliament , or by the Lords and Commons for Sequestrations .

Die Jovis 9 Septemb. 1647.

ORdered by the Lords assembled in Parliament , That this Declaration concerning the election of Officers be forthwith printed and published .

Jo. Brown Cler. Parliament .

Printed at London for John Wright , at the Kings Head in the Old Bailey . 1647.