A declaration of the Commons assembled in Parliament against a scandalous book entituled, The second part of Englands new chains discovered, &c. Die Martis, 27 Martii, 1649. England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A83670 of text R211079 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.14[13]). 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 A83670 Wing E2552A Thomason 669.f.14[13] ESTC R211079 99869816 99869816 163001 2264183405

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A83670) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163001) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f14[13]) A declaration of the Commons assembled in Parliament against a scandalous book entituled, The second part of Englands new chains discovered, &c. Die Martis, 27 Martii, 1649. England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed for Edward Husband, Printer to the Honorable House of Commons, London : March 29. 1649. A reply to the work by John Lilburne. Order to print signed: H: Scobell, Cleric. Parliament. Reproductions of the originals in Harvard University Library (Goldsmith's-Kress) and the British Library (Thomason Tracts). eng Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657. -- Englands new chains discovered. Part 2 -- Early works to 1800. Censorship -- England -- Early works to 1800. A83670 R211079 (Thomason 669.f.14[13]). civilwar no A declaration of the Commons assembled in Parliament, against a scandalous book entituled, The second part of Englands new chains discovered England and Wales. Parliament. 1649 1 293 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
A DECLARATION OF THE COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT , Against a Scandalous Book Entituled , The Second part of Englands new Chains discovered , &c. Die Martis , 27 Martii , 1649.

THe House being informed of a scandalous and seditious Book Printed , entituled , The second part of England's New Chains discovered .

The said Book was this day read .

REsolved upon the Question by the Commons assembled in Parliament , That this printed Paper , entituled , The second Part of England's New Chains discovered , &c. doth contain most false , scandalous , and reproachful matter , and is highly Seditious and Destructive to the present Government , as it is now Declared and setled by Parliament , tends to division and mutiny in the Army , and the raising of a new War in the Commonwealth , and to hinder the present relief of Ireland , and to the continuing of Free-Quarter : And this House doth further Declare , That the Authors , Contrivers , and Framers of the said Papers , are guilty of High Treason , and shall be proceeded against as Traytors ; And that all persons whatsoever , that shall joyn with , or adhere unto , and hereafter voluntarily ayd or assist the Authors , Framers , and Contrivers of the aforesaid Paper , in the prosecution thereof , shall be esteemed as Traytors to the Common-wealth , and be proceeded against accordingly .

ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament , That this Declaration be forthwith Printed and Published .

H : Scobell , Cleric . Parliament' .

London , Printed for Edward Husband , Printer to the Honorable House of Commons . March 29. 1649.