The protestation of the freeholders of Yorkshire, May 13th. 1642

Wing number: P3867
Folger bibliographic ID: 232425
ESTC number: R182231
Crawford, J.L.L. Bibliography of royal proclamations of the Tudor and Stuart sovereigns and of others published under authority, 1485-1714: I, 2133
Folger call number: 265- 675b
Folger holdings ID: 280907
Accession Number: 265675

The freeholders, shut out of the meeting of the gentry with the king, protest the referee chosen to speak for them, and desire a new and fair election, else they will not be bound by its decision. The King summons all gentlemen of Yorkshire on 20 May 1642

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General notes

A reprint of the protestation (Crawford I, 2132) along with the King's summons (Crawford I, 2134): the latter has caption "By the King"; text begins "VVhereas upon summons from us divers gentlemen of this our country of Yorke did attend upon Thursday the 12. of this instant," ending "Given at our court at Yorke the 14. day of May, in the eighteenth yeare of our reigne. Vivat Rex. 1642." Two-line initial. The last word of the first line of text is 'the'; the word at the lower right-hand corner of the initial is 'Gentry'; the last word of the last full line of text is 'Court'

Item information about Folger 265- 675b

Number '80' 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

Alternate titles: VVhereas His Majesty hath beene pleased to give summons to the gentry of this county to attend him at his court at Yorke the twelfth of May, Whereas His Majesty hath beene pleased to give summons to the gentry of this county to attend him at his court at Yorke the twelfth of May instant

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bookseller: Bates, Thomas
former owner: Ouvry, Frederic, 1814-1881
former owner: Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of, 1847-1929
addressee: England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I)