A proclamation by his Excellencie the Lord Generall, concerning free-quarter. Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A84900 of text R211244 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.13[91]). 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 A84900 Wing F216 Thomason 669.f.13[91] ESTC R211244 99869974 99869974 162987 2240939654

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A84900) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 162987) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f13[91]) A proclamation by his Excellencie the Lord Generall, concerning free-quarter. Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed for John Playford, and are to be sold at his shop in the Inner Temple, London : 1649. By virtue of counterfeit passes certain persons take free quarter. Soldiers are to take free quarters through a commission officer, who shall show his commission and give his name. Offenders to be imprisoned and tried by court martial -- Cf. Steele. Dated at end: Given under my Hand and Seal in Queens-street the 20. day of February, 1648. Annotation on Thomason copy: "1648"; 9 in imprint date crossed though. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Soldiers -- Billeting -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. A84900 R211244 (Thomason 669.f.13[91]). civilwar no A proclamation by his Excellencie the Lord Generall, concerning free-quarter. Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron 1649 1 244 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
A PROCLAMATION BY His Excellencie the Lord Generall , concerning FREE-QUARTER .

WHereas Information is given , that severall persons , not Souldiers , do pretend themselves to be Souldiers , and produce counterfeit Passes and Tickets for Quarter , and take Free-quarter where ever they come , to the great injury of the Nation , and dishonour of the Army , ( it being the desire and indeavour of the Army , that Free-quarter be speedily taken off in all places ; ) for remedy whereof , all Souldiers are hereby required not to march from their Colours , and take Free-quarter without a Commission-Officer , and the Commission-Officer is not to require Free-quarter upon any Ticket or pretence whatsoever , untill he have first shewed his Commission for his place as an Officer in the Army , and given his name and the names of his Souldiers under his Conduct : And if any shall contrary hereunto offend , the Civil Officers are desired to secure their persons , till such course be taken , as to the merit of their offences shall be thought fit by a Court-Martiall .

Given under my Hand and Seal in Queens-street the 20. day of February , 1648. T. FAIRFAX .

Imprimatur .

Hen. Whalley , Advocate . Feb. 25. 1648.

London : Printed for John Playford , and are to be sold at his shop in the Inner Temple , 1649.