An act declaring and constituting the people of England to be a commonwealth and free-state. Laws, etc. England and Wales. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A84568 of text R25373 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason E1060_29). 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 A84568 Wing E986 Thomason E1060_29 ESTC R25373 99872092 99872092 169029 2264190419

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A84568) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 169029) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 157:E1060[29]) An act declaring and constituting the people of England to be a commonwealth and free-state. Laws, etc. England and Wales. 1 sheet ([2] p.) printed for Edward Husband, printer to the Honorable House of Commons, and are to be sold at his shop in Fleetstreet, at the sign of the Golden-Dragon, near the Inner-Temple, London : May 21. 1649. Steele notation: and be or. Also issued as part of a through-paged folio set with a table for the entire set added and as part of "An act prohibiting the proclaiming of any person to be King" London, printed by John Field for Edward Husband, 1649. Ornament at head; initial letter; text in black letter. Order to print dated 19 May 1649. Reproductions of the originals in the British Library (Thomason Tracts) and the Harvard University Library (Early English books). eng Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Constitutional history -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800. A84568 R25373 (Thomason E1060_29). civilwar no An act declaring and constituting the people of England to be a commonwealth and free-state.: England and Wales. 1649 1 207 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 2007-11 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 Declaring and Constituting the People of England to be a Commonwealth and Free-State .

BE it Declared and Enacted by this present Parliament , and by the authority of the same , That the People of England , and of all the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging , are and shall be , and are hereby Constituted , Made , Established and Confirmed , to be a Common-wealth and Free-State : And shall from henceforth be Governed as a Commonwealth and Free-State , by the Supreme Authority of this Nation , The Representatives of the People in Parliament , and by such as they shall appoint and constitute as Officers and Ministers under them for the good of the People , and that without any King or House of Lords .

Die Sabbathi , 19 Maii , 1649.

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

Hen: Scobell , Cleric . Parliamenti .

London , Printed for Edward Husband , Printer to the Honorable House of Commons , and are to be sold at his Ship in Fleetstreet , at the Sign of the Golden-Dragon , near the Inner-Temple , May 21. 1649.