England and Wales. Parliament. Die Martis, 17. Maii. 1642. The Lords and Commons in Parliament do declare, that it is against the lawes and liberties of the kingdom, that any of the subjects thereof should be commanded by the King to attend him at his pleasure, but such as are bound thereto by speciall service ...

Wing number: E1631A
Folger bibliographic ID: 233933
ESTC number: R225723
Crawford, J.L.L. Bibliography of royal proclamations of the Tudor and Stuart sovereigns and of others published under authority, 1485-1714: I, 2141
Folger call number: 265- 999b
Folger holdings ID: 282925
Accession Number: 265999

Sheriffs are authorized to suppress by force any trained bands or other subjects who put themselves in a posture of war "upon pretence of His Majesties command."

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Signed: Hen. Elsing, Cler. Parl. D. Com "May 20" in imprint precedes "London." Type border. Headband. Four-line decorated initial. The last word of the first line of text is 'That'; the word at the lower right-hand corner of the initial is 'by'; the last word of the last full line of text is 'the'

Item information about Folger 265- 999b

Trimmed with loss of type border. Number '147' in ink in early hand, struck out; number '82' in pencil and red ink in later hand. Mounted on stiff paper backing. Disbound from the second of four volumes of the Ouvry-Rosebery Collection of English Civil War Broadsides. Acquired from C.R. Johnson, 2009-12-16

Uniform title: Proceedings. 1642-05-17
Alternate titles: Lords and Commons in Parliament do declare, that it is against the lawes and liberties of the kingdom, that any of the subjects thereof should be commanded by the King to attend him at his pleasure, but such as are bound thereto by speciall service

Prerogative, Royal Great Britain Sheriffs

issuing body: England and Wales. Parliament
signer: Elsynge, Henry, 1606?-1656
bookseller: Hunscot, Joseph
former owner: Ouvry, Frederic, 1814-1881
former owner: Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of, 1847-1929