A declaration of the Parliament assembled at Westminster. Whereas by a clause in an Act of this present Parliament, for enabling and authorizing certain persons to be justices of the peace, ... England and Wales. Parliament. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A82737 of text R211225 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.21[60]). 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 A82737 Wing E1490B Thomason 669.f.21[60] ESTC R211225 99869955 99869955 163555 2240946042

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A82737) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163555) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 247:669f21[60]) A declaration of the Parliament assembled at Westminster. Whereas by a clause in an Act of this present Parliament, for enabling and authorizing certain persons to be justices of the peace, ... England and Wales. Parliament. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed by John Field and Henry Hills, Printers to the Parliament. And are to be sold at the seven Stars in Fleet-street over against Dunstans Church, London : [1659] Title from heading and first lines of text. Publication date from Wing. Order to print dated: Thursday, the 7th. of July, 1659. Signed: Thomas St. Nicholas Clerk of the Parliament. Annotation on Thomason copy: "July 18". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Justices of the peace -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. Judicial power -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. A82737 R211225 (Thomason 669.f.21[60]). civilwar no A declaration of the Parliament assembled at Westminster. Whereas by a clause in an Act of this present Parliament, for enabling and authori England and Wales. Parliament. 1659 1 288 1 0 0 0 0 0 35 C The rate of 35 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
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A DECLARATION OF THE Parliament Assembled at Westminster .

WHereas by a Clause in an Act of this present Parliament , for Enabling and Authorizing certain persons to be Iustices of the Peace , and Sheriffs , It is provided , That all and every person and persons , who on the Sixth day of May , or at any time within Three moneths before , did , or might Act as Iustices of the Peace , Iustices of Oyer and Terminer , or Sheriffs , of , or within several Counties , Cities , and Places within Scotland and Ireland respectively , be , and are hereby appointed and authorized to be Iustices of the Peace , Iustices of Oyer and Terminer , and Sheriffs respectively , of , and in the said several and respective Counties , Cities , and Places :

And whereas , under colour of the Power given to the Sheriffs of Scotland , by the said Clause , They do take upon them to proceed in a Iudicial way to the Trial of Civil Causes , whether Personal or Real , contrary to the true meaning of the said Clause :

It is therefore Declared , That all such Proceedings in Civil Causes , Personal or Real , are not Authorized by the said Act , but are to be forborn .

Thursday , the 7th ▪ of July , 1659.

ORdered , That this Declaration be forthwith Printed and Published .

Thomas St. Nicholas Clerk of the Parliament .

London , Printed by John Field and Henry Hills , Printers to the Parliament .

And are to be sold at the seven Stars in Fleet-street over against Dunstans Church .