An Act appointing commissioners for the government of the Army Public General Acts. 1659-10-12 England and Wales. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A84558 of text R211288 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.21[79]). 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 A84558 Wing E978 Thomason 669.f.21[79] ESTC R211288 99900181 99900181 135460 2248514798

This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.

Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A84558) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 135460) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2555:11) An Act appointing commissioners for the government of the Army Public General Acts. 1659-10-12 England and Wales. 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed by John Streater, by vertue of especial command, London : [1659] Dated at end: Passed October the 12th. 1659. Thomas St. Nicholas clerk of the Parliament. Steele notation: Act future, of. Annotation on Thomason copy: "8ber [i.e. October]. 13.". Reproduction of original in the Henry E. Huntington Library. eng England and Wales. -- Army -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- England A84558 R211288 (Thomason 669.f.21[79]). civilwar no An Act appointing commissioners for the government of the Army. England and Wales 1659 1 390 3 0 0 0 0 0 77 D The rate of 77 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2007-11 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
AN ACT ▪ Appointing COMMISSIONERS For the GOVERNMENT Of the Army .

BE it enacted by this present Parliament , and the Authority thereof ; and it is hereby enacted , That one Act made by this present Parliament Instituted an Act , Constituting Charls Fleetwood Esq Lievtenant General , Commander in Chief of the Forces Raised ▪ and to be Raised by Authority of Parliament , within Eng and and Scotland , and all Powers thereby Given ; Be , and are , hereby Repealed , and made Voyd ; and that the Army and Forces in England and Scotland , of this Commonwealth shall , for the future , be Governed by Commissioners , in the Place and Stead of a Lievtenant General : And that Lievtenant General Charls Fleetwood , Lievtenant General Edmond Ludlow , General George Monk , Sir Arthur Haslerigg , Baronet , Colonel Valentine Walton , Colonel Herbert Morley , and Colonel Robert Overton ; Be , and are hereby appoynted Commissioners , to Execute all and singular the Powers and Authorities Insident , belonging to the Office of the Lievtenant General of the Army of this Commonwealth , in England and Scotland , in as large and ample manner , as in and by the said Recited Act , was Granted and Expressed : and that they or any three , or more of them , shall ▪ and may , Execute the said Office and Powers from the eleventh day of October , 1659. untill the twelfth Day of February 1659. any Act or Commission whatsoever , made or granted to the contrary , in any wise , notwithstanding ; And that all Officers and Souldiers of the Army , and other Persons concerned , are hereby Required to yield their Obedience to the said Commissioners accordingly : And the said Commissioners are to Obey and Observe such Orders and Directions as they , or any thrée , or more , of them , shall , from time to time , Receive , from the Parliament , or Council of State appointed , or which shall be appointed , by Authority of Parliament .

Passed October the 12th . 1659. Thomas St. Nicholas Clerk of the Parliament .

LONDON , Printed by John Streater , By Vertue of Especial Command .