At the Council of State at White-Hall. The Parliament having lately intrusted this Council to take care that the good people of England, Scotland, and Ireland, be protected in their peaceable assemblies ... England and Wales. Council of State. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A84470 of text R211735 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.17[63]). 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 A84470 Wing E780 Thomason 669.f.17[63] ESTC R211735 99870441 99870441 163311 2248506639

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A84470) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163311) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f17[63]) At the Council of State at White-Hall. The Parliament having lately intrusted this Council to take care that the good people of England, Scotland, and Ireland, be protected in their peaceable assemblies ... England and Wales. Council of State. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed by Henry Hills, Printer to the Council of State, London : MDCLIII. [1653] Title from caption and opening lines of text. Signed and dated at end: Saturday November 12. 1653. John Thurloe, Secr. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Freedom of religion -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. A84470 R211735 (Thomason 669.f.17[63]). civilwar no At the Council of State at White-Hall. The Parliament having lately intrusted this Council to take care that the good people of England, Sco England and Wales. Council of State. 1653 1 186 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. 2007-09 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
At the Council of State at White-Hall .
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THE Parliament having lately intrusted this Council to take care that the good People of England , Scotland , and Ireland , be protected in their peaceable Assemblies for the Worship of GOD ; ( not intending thereby any Sufferance , Protection , or Countenance to any Popish or Idolatrous Worship . )

It is hereby declared , in pursuance of the said Trust , That this Council will so protect all the good People of these Nations ; And that no Disturbance may be offered to any such , in their peaceable Assemblies for the Worship of GOD , It is expected and required of all Ministers of Justice to proceed against Offenders herein as Disturbers of the Publique Peace , and of all other Persons whatsoever to take notice hereof .

Saturday November 12. 1653. At the Council of State at White-Hall , Ordered , That this Declaration be forthwith printed and published .

JOHN THURLOE , Secr.

London , Printed by Henry Hills , Printer to the Council of State , MDCLIII .