By His Excellency. Forasmuch as divers of this nation, notwithstanding their peaceable living and abiding at their severall habitations, within the quarters of the army, under my command; ... Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B20842 of text R225778 in the English Short Title CatalogTextual 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 2018 B20842 Wing C7087 Interim Tract Supplement Guide 1851.c.11[50] ESTC R225778 99886273 ocm99886273 188463 2248534154

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 Early English books online text creation partnership. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B20842) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 188463) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; C10:3[40]) By His Excellency. Forasmuch as divers of this nation, notwithstanding their peaceable living and abiding at their severall habitations, within the quarters of the army, under my command; ... Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658. 1 sheet ([1] p.). by Evan Tyler, Printed at Leith : in the year 1651. Title taken from caption and opening lines of text. Dated at end: Edinburgh, March 15. 1651. Signed at end: O. Cromwell. Type headpiece; Steele notation: Peace- Goods within. Copy cropped with loss of type headpiece and imprint. Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. eebo By His Excellency. Forasmuch as divers of this nation, notwithstanding their peaceable living and abiding at their severall habitations, within the qu n/a 1651 1 403 4 0 0 0 0 0 99.26 D The rate of 99.26 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2013-07 Assigned for keying and markup 2013-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2013-09 Sampled and proofread 2013-09 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2014-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
BY HIS EXCELLENCY .

FOrasmuch as divers of this Nation , notwithstanding their Peaceable living and abiding at their severall Habitations , within the Quarters of the Army , under my Command ; Do ( contrary to the Laws and Customs of War ) pass into the Enemies Quaters , and do hold correspondence with , and give Intelligence to them , and do ( under pretence of Paying Debts and Rents , and other unwarrantable Pretences ) transport and carry into the Enemies Quarters , Horses , Armes , Moneys , Plate , Provisions , and other Goods and Gear , of considerable value . These are therefore strictly to require from henceforth , That no person presume or attempt ( without Licence in that behalf first had and obtained in writing , under Hand and Seal ) to pass into the Enemies Quarters , or do give Intelligence unto , or hold correspondence with them or any withi● their Quarters , upon any pretence whatsoever , under pain of being proceeded against as Spies ; and that none do send , transport , or carry , or cause to be sent , transported or carrie● into the Enemies Quarters , any Horses , Armes , Moneys , Plate , Provisions , or any oth●● Goods or Gear , of what kinde , or nature soever , as they and any of them will answer the contrary , upon the penalty of forseiting double the sum of Money , and double the value of the said Plate , Provisions , Goods , and Gear so sent , or attempted to be sent , transported o● carried , and such further course ( against their persons ) to be taken , as to justice shall be thought fit . And for encouragement to all such as shall discover , or apprehend , any who shall be offenders in any of the forementioned particulars , I do hereby declare , that one Moity of whatsoever forfeitures shall be adjudged to be paid by any such Persons , so discovered or apprehended , shall be paid to those that shall discover or apprehend them , as aforesaid . And that none may pretend ignorance hereof ; It is hereby Ordained that the same be Proclaimed at the Market-Cross in Edinburgh , and in the other Towns within the Quarters of the Army .

O. CROMWELI