By the Committee of Safety of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, &c. A proclamation inhibiting all meetings for the raising, or drawing together of forces, without order of the said Committee, or the Lord Fleetwood. England and Wales. Committee of Safety. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A84449 of text R211315 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.22[2]). 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 A84449 Wing E745 Thomason 669.f.22[2] ESTC R211315 99870045 99870045 163584 2240942093

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A84449) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163584) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 247:669f22[2]) By the Committee of Safety of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, &c. A proclamation inhibiting all meetings for the raising, or drawing together of forces, without order of the said Committee, or the Lord Fleetwood. England and Wales. Committee of Safety. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed by Henry Hills and John Field, Printers to the Committee of Safety, London : 1659. Dated at end: Given at Whitehall the 5th. day of November, 1659. Annotation on Thomason copy: "9ber [i.e. November]. 7." Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Fleetwood, Charles, d. 1692 -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Militia -- Mobilization -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. A84449 R211315 (Thomason 669.f.22[2]). civilwar no By the Committee of Safety of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, &c. A proclamation inhibiting all meetings for the raising England and Wales. Committee of Safety. 1659 1 559 2 0 0 0 0 0 36 D The rate of 36 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2007-09 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-10 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
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❧ By the Committee of Safety of the Commonwealth of England , Scotland , and Ireland , &c. A PROCLAMATION Inhibiting all Meetings for the Raising , or drawing together of Forces , without order of the ●ai● Committee , or the Lord Fleetwood .

WHereas it hath pleased God in his all-ordering providence , to cast the present Care of preserving the publick Peace and Safety of these Nations upon this Committee , who , upon a due sence and consideration of their Duty ▪ conceive themselves obliged both to God and their Countrey , to use their utmost Endeavours for preservation thereof , most especially in such a season , wherein they must needs expect , that partly , through endeavours used by the common Enemies , and partly through the inadvertency and animosities of some friends , the continuation of the Peace and Welfare of these Nations will be in apparent hazard ; and their intended provision for the Liberty of the good people of this Commonwealth , both as men , and as Christians , in a Settlement of a Government of these Nations , without a King , Single Person , or House of Peers , thereby interupted and retarded , to the great prejudice and disturbance of the People .

And whereas this Committee have understood , That several Meetings have been held , wherein matters , tending to the disturbance of the publick Peace , and in favour of the Enemies thereof , have been asserted and promoted , whose influence , if not prevented , may tend much to the publick prejudice .

They do therefore Declare and Order . That no persons whatsoever , upon any pretence whatsoever , do maintain , or frequent any Meetings within the Cities of London or Westminster , or late Lines of Communication , or within any other the Counties , Cities , Towns , and Places of this Commonwealth , thereby to draw together , or to contrive or endeavour the drawing together of any Forces whatsoever within this Commonwealth ; nor to Countenance , Abet , or Promote any Assemblies , Meeting or Meetings in order thereunto , without the particular Order of this Committee , or the Lord Fleetwood , or by Commission or Instructions from or by either of them , upon penalty of being reputed and proceeded against , as enemies to , and disturbers of the Peace of this Commonwealth .

And this Committee do Declare , That if any persons do , from and after the Seventh day of November , One thousand six hundred fifty nine , Assemble , or Meet together , to Assert , Promote , Countenance , or Abet , or in Order to the Promoting , Abetting , or Countenancing the Matters aforesaid , without order as aforesaid , such persons shall be had , reputed , and taken to be disturbers of the Peace , and enemies to the Settlement of this Commonwealth .

Given at Whitehall the 5th . day of November , 1659.

ORdered by the Committee of Safety , That this Proclamation be forthwith Printed and Published .

William Robinson , Clerk of the Committee of Safety .

London , Printed by Henry Hills and John Field , Printers to the Committee of Safety , 1659.