England and Wales. An ordinance of both Houses of Parliament, for the safeguard of the Parliament, Tower, and City of London, under the command of Serjeant Major Generall Skippon

Wing number: E1793
Folger bibliographic ID: 229996
ESTC number: R215597
Crawford, J.L.L. Bibliography of royal proclamations of the Tudor and Stuart sovereigns and of others published under authority, 1485-1714: I, 1989
Folger call number: 265- 634b
Folger holdings ID: 276206
Accession Number: 265634

Refers to order of Parliament, 12 January last, to place a guard about the tower under Major General Skippon, commander of the Guards of Parliament. Any person arresting or troubling him violates the privilege of Parliament. (Crawford.)

Bibliographic format

full sheet

General notes

Printed area measures 31.5 x 22.3 cm Dates are given according to Lady Day dating "February 18." Headband of type ornaments; last word of first line of text: "that"; first word of line at base of initial: "these"; the last word of last full line of text: "the" There is some confusion about the difference between Crawford, I, 1989 and 1990. See English short title catalogue R215597

Item information about Folger 265- 634b

Verso blank; type ornaments at head. Manuscript number '25'. Frederic Ouvry -- Earl of Rosebery copy. Disbound from the first of four volumes of English broadsides; disbound and mounted on stiff paper backing. Acquired from C.R. Johnson, 2009-12-16

Uniform title: Ordinances. 1642-02-18

London (England) Tower of London (London, England) Skippon, Philip, -1660

enacting jurisdiction: England and Wales
subject: Tower of London (London, England)
subject: Skippon, Philip, -1660
bookseller: Hunscot, Joseph
former owner: Ouvry, Frederic, 1814-1881
former owner: Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of, 1847-1929
associated with: England and Wales. Parliament