An instruction unto Josias Bervers, Francis Massenden Esqs; Sir William Roberts Knight, John Packer, Henry Pit, Mathias Valentine and Robert Aldsworth Esqs; England and Wales. Council of State. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A84461 of text R211535 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.17[18]). 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 A84461 Wing E777 Thomason 669.f.17[18] ESTC R211535 99870252 99870252 163268 2240946958

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A84461) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163268) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f17[18]) An instruction unto Josias Bervers, Francis Massenden Esqs; Sir William Roberts Knight, John Packer, Henry Pit, Mathias Valentine and Robert Aldsworth Esqs; England and Wales. Council of State. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed for Giles Calvert, Henry Hills, and Thomas Brewster, London : MDCLIII. [1653] Dated at end: Given at the Council of State at VVhite-Hall, this fifteenth day of June 1653. Josias Bervers = Josias Berners. Order to print dated: Thursday June 16. 1653. Signed: Jo. Thurloe Secr. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Berners, Josias. Property -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. A84461 R211535 (Thomason 669.f.17[18]). civilwar no An instruction unto Josias Bervers, Francis Massenden Esqs; Sir William Roberts Knight, John Packer, Henry Pit, Mathias Valentine and Robert England and Wales. Council of State. 1653 1 346 1 0 0 0 0 0 29 C The rate of 29 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2007-09 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-09 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-10 Sampled and proofread 2007-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
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AN INSTRVCTION Unto Josias Bervers , Francis Massenden Esqs Sir William Roberts Knight , John Packer , Henry Pit , Mathias Valentine and Robert Aldsworth Esqs

WHEREAS by an Act of Parliament , entituled , An Act for sale of several Lands and Estates forfeited , to the Common-Wealth , for Treason , and published the eighteenth of November 1652. the persons , body politique , or corporate , their Heirs , Successors , or Assigns , who were to have the benefit of the Saving therein expressed , were , some time before he first day of February last , to deliver in writing unto the Commissioners ( appointed by an Act , entituled , An Act for transferring the powers of the Committee for Obstruction ) or any four or more of them , a particular of his or their Right , Title , Interest ▪ Claim , Demand , Charge , Incumbrance , or Estate , in Law or Equity , and to obtain an allowance thereof before the said Commissioners , or any four or more of them , at or before the first day of April last .

And whereas severall claims have been delivered to the said Commissioners , which they could not determine by the said first day of April , you or any four or more of you are hereby authorized and required , at any time before the fifteenth day of August next comming , to hear and determine all such claims and causes as aforesaid , which were delivered in , by or before the said first day of February ; whereof all persons concerned therein are to take notice , and conform themselves thereunto . Given at the Council of State at White-Hall , this fifteenth day of June 1653 .

Thursday June 16. 1653. At the Councill of State at White-Hall , Ordered , that this Instruction be forthwith printed and published .

Jo. Thurloe Secr.

London , Printed for Giles Calvert , Henry Hills , and Thomas Brewster , MDCLIII .