Die Veneris, 27 Septembr. 1650. Upon report from the Committee for Suppressing Licentious and Impious Practices under Pretence of Religion, Liberty, &c. ... England and Wales. Parliament. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A83578 of text R212034 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing E2432). 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 A83578 Wing E2432 ESTC R212034 45097738 ocm 45097738 171331 2248568111

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A83578) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 171331) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2571:45) Die Veneris, 27 Septembr. 1650. Upon report from the Committee for Suppressing Licentious and Impious Practices under Pretence of Religion, Liberty, &c. ... England and Wales. Parliament. England and Wales. Committee for Suppressing Licentious and Impious Practices Under Pretence of Religion, Liberty, &c. 1 sheet ([1] p.). Printed by Edward Husband and John Field, printers to the Parliament of England, London, : 1650. Ordering that Major Rainborow be discharged from the office of Justice of the Peace, and that Laurence Clarkson be banished and his book burnt. Reproduction of original in the Henry E. Huntington Library. eng Claxton, Laurence, 1615-1667. -- Single eye. Rainborow, William. Censorship -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Officials and employees -- Dismissal of -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. A83578 R212034 (Wing E2432). civilwar no Die Veneris, 27 Septembr. 1650. Upon report from the committee for suppressing licentious and impious practices, under pretence of religion, England and Wales. Parliament 1650 1 347 13 0 0 0 0 0 375 F The rate of 375 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2007-11 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-11 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-12 Sampled and proofread 2007-12 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
Die Veneris , 27 Septembr . 1650.

UPon Report from the Committee for suppressing licentious and impious practices , under pretence of Religion , Liberty , &c. The Confession of Laurence Clarkson , touching the making and publishing of the impious and Blasphemous Book , called , The single Eye , and also Mr. Rainborows Carriages .

Resolved by the Parliament , That Major Rainsborow be henceforth discharged and dis●…ed of and from bearing or executing the Office of a Iustice of Peace in the County of ●iddlesex , or any other County within England and Wales .

Resolved , That the Parliament doth Adjudge , That the said Laurence Clarkson be forth●●th sent to the House of Correction , there to be kept to labor for one Moneth , and from ●●at time to be Banished out of this Commonwealth and the Territories thereof , and ●●●t to return upon pain of Death .

Resolved by the Parliament , That the Book called The single Eye , and all printed Co●●…es thereof , be forthwith seized , and burnt by the hand of the Common Hangman in ●●e New-Pallace at Westminster , and upon the Exchange ; And that the Lord Major ●●…d Sheriffs of London and Middlesex , be required to cause the same to be done ac●●rdingly .

Resolved by the Parliament , That all and every person and persons whatsoever , who ●ave in their or any of their hands or custody , any of the Books , entituled , The single ●…ye , or printed Copies thereof , be , and are Required and Enjoyned forthwith to deli●er the same to the next Iustice of the Peace where such person or persons live or inha●it , who are hereby Required to cause the same to be publiquely burned .

Resolved by the Parliament , That these Votes be forthwith printed and published .

Hen: Scobell , Cleric . Parliamenti .

London , Printed by Edward Husband and John Field , Printers to the Parliament of England , 1650.