Whereas a printed paper was lately put forth in the names of some of the trustees for ministers maintenance wherein amongst other things they take upon them without warrant to discharge all incumbents from whom any first-fruits are due, from paying the same unto Mr. Thomas Baker at the First-fruits Office in the Strand in the county of Middlesex, ... Baker, Thomas, of the First-fruits office. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A96302 of text R211671 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.20[18]). 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 A96302 Wing W1611 Thomason 669.f.20[18] ESTC R211671 99870377 99870377 163435 2240954977

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A96302) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163435) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 247:669f20[18]) Whereas a printed paper was lately put forth in the names of some of the trustees for ministers maintenance wherein amongst other things they take upon them without warrant to discharge all incumbents from whom any first-fruits are due, from paying the same unto Mr. Thomas Baker at the First-fruits Office in the Strand in the county of Middlesex, ... Baker, Thomas, of the First-fruits office. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1655] Title from opening lines of text. Imprint from Wing. Dated and signed at end: Dated at the First-fruits Office aforesaid, the eighteenth day of November 1655. Thomas Baker. Annotation on Thomason copy: "A pay from ye first-fruits office [illegible] paying ye first fruits". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Taxation -- England -- Middlesex -- Early works to 1800. Middlesex (England) -- History -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800. A96302 R211671 (Thomason 669.f.20[18]). civilwar no Whereas a printed paper was lately put forth in the names of some of the trustees for ministers maintenance, wherein amongst other things th Baker, Thomas, of the First-fruits office. 1655 1 227 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. 2007-06 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-07 Sampled and proofread 2007-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

WHereas a printed paper was lately put forth in the names of some of the Trustees for Ministers maintenance , wherein amongst other things they take upon them without warrant to discharge all Incumbents from whom any First-fruits are due , from paying the same unto Mr. Thomas Baker at the First-fruits Office in the Strand in the County of Middlesex , These are to give notice to all persons concernd , that they are notwithstanding to apply themselves to the accustomed place and persons , for dispatch of all businesses which have or do belong to the said Office , it being an Office established by several Acts of Parliament never yet repealed nor altered by the present or any former Government , and that they pay their monies there , where their securities remain , which shall be delivered up to them upon payment of the same , and without which they can no way be legally discharged or secured by any other persons upon any pretence whatsoever , nor free themselves from the process of the Court of Exchequer , which in discharge of the Officers duty must be issued , to bring all persons concerned to conformity in payment of the States Revenew .

Dated at the First-fruits Office aforesaid , the Eighteenth day of November 1655. Thomas Baker .