Februar. 18. 1642. Whereas the Lords and Commons of both Houses of Parliament, made request at a common councell holden this day in the afternoone, ... City of London (England). Lord Mayor. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A88465 of text R211650 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.5[125]). 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 A88465 Wing L2878B Thomason 669.f.5[125] ESTC R211650 99870360 99870360 160837 2240955394

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A88465) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 160837) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 245:669f5[125]) Februar. 18. 1642. Whereas the Lords and Commons of both Houses of Parliament, made request at a common councell holden this day in the afternoone, ... City of London (England). Lord Mayor. Pennington, Isaac, Sir, 1587?-1660. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1643] Dated and signed at bottom of text: Saturday this eighteenth day of February, 1642 [i.e. 1643]. Isaac Pennington Mayor. Title from caption and opening lines of text. Imprint from Wing. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng London (England) -- History -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. A88465 R211650 (Thomason 669.f.5[125]). civilwar no Februar. 18. 1642. Whereas the Lords and Commons of both Houses of Parliament, made request at a common councell holden this day in the afte City of London 1643 1 496 1 0 0 0 0 0 20 C The rate of 20 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2007-07 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-08 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-09 Sampled and proofread 2007-09 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
Februar . 18. 1642.

WHEREAS the Lords and Commons of both Houses of Parliament , made request at a Common Councell holden this day in the afternoone , for the loane of three score thousand pounds to be paid by the Citizens on munday next , into the Treasury at the Guild hall , for the present supply of the great wants and payment of the Army ( under the Command of his Excellency Robert Earle of Essex ) which is very much in arreare in their pay . The Common Councell considering the present necessity and urgent occasion , did condiscend to doe their utmost endevours to promote the advancement of the said money . And the Lord Mayor , Aldermen , and Common Councell-men then present , did freely declare what summe of money they will then bring in , towards the same . And for the more speedy advancement of the remainder of the said 60000. pounds . It was conceived requisite that the Minister of every Parish Church , shall to morrow publish this unto his Parishioners , and effectually move them freely to advance some good summe , towards the raising of the remainder of the said money , And the Common Councell men and Churchwardens of every Parish , with such others as the Common Councell men shall thinke fit , are desired to repaire to every Inhabitant and Lodger within their severall Parishes , and earnestly perswade them to this good worke ; And set downe all their names and surnames , and the summes of money they shall respectively lend , and the particular answers of such able men as refuse to lend . And the said Common Councell men and Churchwardens , are desired to Collect the said monies so to be lent , and pay the same into the Treasury at the Guild hall , and to give Receipts for what they shall collect , and upon their payment thereof to take a Receipt from the Treasurers . All which Monies so to be lent , the Lords and Commons Declared , shall be re-payed unto the severall lenders , out of the first monies that shall be received out of the weekely payments of money , agreed upon by an Ordinance in Parliament this day made , to be raised for the maintaining of the Army : And the Lords and Commons likewise declared that they hoped that this will be the last monies that they shall require from the City in this kinde .

And at the request , and by the directions of the said Common Councell , I doe hereby desire the Minister , Common Councell men , and Churchwardens of every Parish , to doe their utmost endeavours for the speedy and effectuall promoting of this businesse , and to doe therein as is before mentioned .

Saturday this eighteenth day of February , 1642. ISAAC PENNINGTON Mayor ▪