The 21. of August. 1643. Whereas the Committee for the Militia in the city of London by vertue of an ordinance of both houses of Parliament ... have power to command the shutting up of all shops ... England and Wales. Parliament. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A83621 of text R204136 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.7[33]). 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. 3 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 A83621 Wing E2490 Thomason 669.f.7[33] ESTC R204136 99897548 99897548 132703 2240926001

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A83621) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 132703) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2515:15) The 21. of August. 1643. Whereas the Committee for the Militia in the city of London by vertue of an ordinance of both houses of Parliament ... have power to command the shutting up of all shops ... England and Wales. Parliament. Committee for the Militia of London. aut 1 sheet ([1] p.) by Richard Cotes, Printed at London : 1643. Title from caption and first lines of text. Ordering business to cease and the Militia to march to the relief of Gloucester. -- Steele. Reproduction of original in the Society of Antiquaries, London, England. eng Committee for the Militia of London -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. England -- Proclamations -- Early works to 1800. London (England) -- Defenses -- Early works to 1800. Gloucester (England) -- History -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides A83621 R204136 (Thomason 669.f.7[33]). civilwar no The 21. of August. 1643. Whereas the Committee for the Militia in the city of London by vertue of an ordinance of both houses of Parliament, England and Wales. Parliament 1643 1 438 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. 2007-11 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
The 21. of August . 1643.

WHereas the Committee for the Militia in the City of London by vertue of an Ordinance of both-houses of Parliament , Dated the seventeenth day of this instant moneth of August , have power to command the shutting up of all shops within the lines of Communication to the end the Inhabitants thereof may the better fit themselves for the defence of the said City and parts adjacent , and forasmuch as the said Committee have been moved , as well by a Committee of Lords and Commons in Parliament , as from his Excellency the Earle of Essex , to send forth of this City some speedy aide for the relieving of the City of Glocester , now in great distresse by reason of the enemies Army , wherewith they are besieged : And the said Committee conceiving that the City of London and parts adjacent cannot be long in safety , if that City be lost , they have thereupon resolved forthwith to send out a Force both of Horse and Foote , for the reliefe of the said City of Glocester . And for the better furtherance of that service , the said Committee of the Militia , doe hereby require all persons inhabiting within the Lines of Communication , immediately to shut up their shops , and to continue them so shut up untill Glocester be relieved , or untill further order shal be given by both Houses of Parliament , or this Committee , and to apply themselves to the furthering of this so necessary a service , and the Officers of the Regiments of Trayned Bands and Auxilliary Forces , which by lot are appointed to goe in this Expedition , are required to returne to the said Committee , as well the names of such persons of the said Regiments , as shall neither March with the rest , nor appoint other sufficient men to goe in their roome , and of such as shall in any sort hinder this Expedition , to the end such course may be taken with them ; as this discovery of their ill affection to the safety of this City and parts adjacent deserveth , as also the names of such Voluntiers not Listed in the said Regiments , as shall goe in this Expedition ; to the end they may receive the like pay which the rest doe , and also be taken notice of as persons well affected to the City , Parliament , and Kingdome .

Printed at London by Richard Cotes . 1643.