England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I). By the King. To our trusty and welbeloved high shieriffe of our county of Yorke

Folger bibliographic ID: 232421
ESTC number: R173730
Wing number: C2829A
Folger call number: 265- 673b
Folger holdings ID: 280902
Accession Number: 265673

Against Sir John Hotham and against any raising of arms, trained bands, etc. without special writ from the King or the sheriff of York

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Text begins: Trusty and wel-beloved, wee greet you well: whereas wee understand that Sir Iohn Hotham takes upon him (without any legall authority or power) to issue warrants to constables, and other our officers, to raise diverse of our trained bands of this our county, and requires them to march with their arms, and to come into our town of Hull ... "Given at our court at Yorke the fifth day of May, in the eighteenth yeere of our raigne, &c." "J.W., I." is John Wright, Junior Royal arms at head, with border measuring 7 x 19 cm; unrecorded in Crawford but similar to Arms 34. Decorated initial (8 lines). The last word of the first line of text is 'Iohn'; the word at the lower right-hand corner of the initial is 'our'; the last word of the last full line of text is 'King-' This edition not in Crawford, J.L.L. Bibliography of royal proclamations of the Tudor and Stuart sovereigns and of others published under authority, 1485-1714. See I, 2105-2109 for other editions

Item information about Folger 265- 673b

Number '77' in pencil and red ink in later hand. Slight slurring or offset. 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: Proclamations. 1642-05-05
Alternate titles: To our trusty and welbeloved high shieriffe of our county of Yorke

Hotham, John, Sir, -1645 January 2 York (England) Great Britain

issuing body: England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I)
subject: Hotham, John, Sir, -1645 January 2
bookseller: Wright, John, -1658
printer: Barker, Robert, -1645
former owner: Ouvry, Frederic, 1814-1881
former owner: Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of, 1847-1929
addressee: York (England). Sheriff