These are to will and require you, that forthwith upon sight hereof you make your personall appearance with your shovell and pik-axe before us the commissioners appointed for the survey of the high-waies at the gravell-pits near Palmers Green: ... This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A89122 of text R211080 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.21[5]). 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 A89122 Wing M1970 Thomason 669.f.21[5] ESTC R211080 99869818 99869818 163500 2240939571

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A89122) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163500) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 247:669f21[5]) These are to will and require you, that forthwith upon sight hereof you make your personall appearance with your shovell and pik-axe before us the commissioners appointed for the survey of the high-waies at the gravell-pits near Palmers Green: ... 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1658] Title from opening lines of text. Signed: Iohn Resolute (and 5 others). Imprint from Wing. A satirical document purporting to be an order from "the Commissioners for the Survey of the High-waies" requiring persons to appear "with shovell and pik-axe at the gravell-pits near Palmers Green". Dated at end: Given under our hands at the gravell pits the 28. day of May, 1658. Annotation on Thomason copy: "May. 3th". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Roads -- Design and construction -- Humor -- Early works to 1800. Satire, English -- Early works to 1800. A89122 R211080 (Thomason 669.f.21[5]). civilwar no Middles. These are to will and require you, that forthwith upon sight hereof you make your personall appearance with your shovell and pik-ax anon. 1658 1 151 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. 2007-07 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-08 Sampled and proofread 2007-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

THese are to will and require you , Middles . that forthwith upon sight hereof you make your personall appearance with your Shovell and pik-Axe before us the Commissioners appointed for the Survey of the High-waies at the Gravell-pits near Palmers Green : on Munday the two and twentieth day of Iune 1658. by nine of the clock in the afternoon , then and there to carry so many Baskets of Gravell , and undergoe such other labour as shall be thought fit by us to be imposed on you for your negligence and inabillity in keeping your Breeches ; Whereof you are not to fail on the pain and penalty that may ensue .

Given under our hands at the Gravell pits the 28. day of May , 1658. Comis . Iohn Resolute . William Ruleall . Stephen Cunnynest . Iames Standup . Thomas Turnturffe . Lawrence Labourwell .
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