Miscellaneous Documents. 1643-03-16

British Museum. Catalogue of the pamphlets, books, newspapers, and manuscripts relating to the Civil War, the Commonwealth, and Restoration, collected by George Thomason, 1640-1661: E.105[28]
Folger bibliographic ID: 138885
ESTC number: R2007
Wing number: C2169
Folger call number: Film Acc. 640
Folger holdings ID: 190482

Bibliographic format

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General notes

This commission, dated at Oxford 16 March 1643 and directed to Sir Nicholas Crisp and others, was the basis of the royalist conspiracy in which Edmund Waller was the principal figure Annotation on Thomason copy: "June 13 1643"

Uniform title: Miscellaneous Documents. 1643-03-16
Extended title: A copie of the commission sent from His Majestie to the conspirators of the citie of London : for the raysing an army of horse and foot, and levying of money, plate, ammunition, &c. Whereby also power is given to these commissioners, or any foure of them to execute martiall law, to kill and slay all those that shall oppose them or all such as are under the command of his Excellencie the Earle of Essex

Great Britain

author: England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I)
former owner: Harmsworth, R. Leicester Sir, (Robert Leicester), 1870-1937
associated with: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649