An act for a seal of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England. England and Wales. Parliament. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A84582 of text R212088 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.15[76]). 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. 1 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 A84582 Wing E995 Thomason 669.f.15[76] ESTC R212088 99870739 99870739 163150 2240945996

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A84582) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163150) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f15[76]) An act for a seal of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England. England and Wales. Parliament. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed by Edward Husband and John Field, Printers to the Parliament of of England, London : 1650 [i.e. 1651] Order to print dated: Die Mercurii, 22 Januarii, 1650. Signed: Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng England and Wales. -- Parliament -- Seal -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. A84582 R212088 (Thomason 669.f.15[76]). civilwar no An Act for a seal of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England. England and Wales. Parliament. 1651 1 191 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 2007-10 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-11 Sampled and proofread 2007-11 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
AN ACT FOR A SEAL OF THE Parliament of the Commonwealth OF ENGLAND .

BE it Enacted by this present Parliament , That the Seal Engraven with the Arms of England and Ireland ( that is to say , A Cross and a Harp ) with this Inscription in the Circle , that is to say ( The Seal of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England ) shall be the Seal of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England , to be onely used by Order of Parliament . And be it further Enacted , That whosoever shall counterfeit the same , shall be adjudged and taken to be guilty of High Treason , and shall be tryed in such maner , and undergo the like penalties as are appointed by any Act of Parliament in case of High Treason .

Die Mercurii , 22 Januarii , 1650.

ORdered by the Parliament , That this Act be forthwith printed and published .

Hen: Scobell , Cleric . Parliamenti .

London , Printed by Edward Husband and John Field , Printers to the Parliament of England , 1650.