A declaration of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England for a time of publique thanksgiving, upon the five and twentieth of this instant August, for the great victory lately vouchsafed to their fleet at sea. England and Wales. Parliament. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A82752 of text R211684 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.17[47]). 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. 4 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 A82752 Wing E1510 Thomason 669.f.17[47] ESTC R211684 99870390 99870390 163295 2240953451

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A82752) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163295) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f17[47]) A declaration of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England for a time of publique thanksgiving, upon the five and twentieth of this instant August, for the great victory lately vouchsafed to their fleet at sea. England and Wales. Parliament. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed by John Field, Printer to the Parliament of England, London : 1653. Order to print dated: Friday the Twelfth of August, 1653. Signed: Hen: Scobell, Clerk of the Parliament. Annotation on Thomason copy: "August ye 16:". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Anglo-Dutch War, 1652-1654 -- Naval operations -- Early works to 1800. Fasts and feasts -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History, Naval -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800. A82752 R211684 (Thomason 669.f.17[47]). civilwar no A declaration of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England, for a time of publique thanksgiving, upon the five and twentieth of this ins England and Wales. Parliament. 1653 1 595 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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A DECLARATION OF THE Parliament of the Commonwealth of ENGLAND , for a time of Publique Thanksgiving , upon the Five and twentieth of this instant August , for the great Victory lately vouchsafed to their Fleet at SEA .

IT having pleased the Lord , after those many signal Tokens of his presence with his People in this Nation , in the several Straights and Changes , through which he hath by a mighty Hand and an out-stretched Arm led them hitherto , Yet again to manifest his wonted power and goodness to them in that late and great Success of our Fleet at Sea , when it pleased the Lord at the end of July last , so to bless the Forces of this Commonwealth engaged by the Dutch ( who by Advantages not a few , to humane Appearances , were likely to have prevailed ) as that after a most sharp and doubtful encounter , he Crowned us with Victory , and made our Enemies to feel the Stroak of his Righteous Hand against them , who have abundantly manifested it to be in their Intentions to have made us ( wearied by a long Intesttine War ) a spoil to their Avarice and Ambition , by their first unjust Invasion of us , and their earnest prosecuting since of a War against us , notwithstanding all the endeavors used on our part to compose so sad , and to us so unwelcome a Breach between the two Nations : We being desirous to be deeply sensible hereof before the Lord , and bearing also in minde what cause we have at all times to make mention of his Name in this Nation , with all humble and thankful Acknowledgements , but especially when he hath thus seasonably made bare his Holy Arm in this late Mercy , before the eyes of all the Nations round about us , Have thought it requisite at a particular time , and in an especial maner to acknowledge the Hand and Goodness of our God to us in this great Work which he hath wrought for us ; And we have therefore set apart Thursday the Five and twentieth of this present August , for the end aforesaid . And in regard the Mercy is general , and we hope will be of great advantage to this whole Commonwealth , and to all that fear God in it ; We do earnestly desire them to contribute their help in this great Work of Thankfulness to the Lord , and to suffer us to call upon them , to sing together with us unto the Lord a new Song , He hath dealt bountifully with us , for his mercy endureth for ever ; and that as the Lord shall move and direct them , they would seriously set themselves in his presence and praise him , together with us , that so we may all with one Heart and Voice , offer up a free Sacrifice of Prayer and of Praise , and all of us endeavor in our several Stations , to improve so great a Deliverance to the alone Glory of our great God , and the good of his People throughout the World .

Friday the Twelfth of August , 1653.

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

Hen: Scobell , Clerk of the Parliament ,

London , Printed by John Field , Printer to the Parliament of England . 1653.