Shelfmark
Ge.1.16(74)
Title
To the right honorable the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament: the humble declaration and resolution of the deputy-lieutenants, colonells, captains, and officers, assented unto, and with great cheerfulnesse approved of, by the souldiers of the trained bands within the county of Southampton, at the generall musters begun the 21 day of June, 1642. being to the number of above five thousand men, besides a great many voluntiers, who then offered to serve in person..
Publication, distribution, etc.
[London] : July 6. London, printed for Joseph Hunscott., 1642..
Physical description
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 36 cm. (full-sheet)
Note
Caption title.
Note
With an order to print dated: Die Veneris, 2 Julii, 1642.
Note
The ordinance of the militia conduces to public peace, but the practices of the malignants threaten to overset it by a proclamation 'which we concieve to be illegal.' Lords will insist on their formerly declared resolutions against sundry late declarations. -- Steele.
Note
With a row of type ornaments at head of text; woodcut initial.
Citation/references note
ESTC, R210867
Citation/references note
Wing (2nd ed., 1994), T1670
Citation/references note
Thomason, 669.f.5[53]
Citation/references note
Steele, I, 2207
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Eton College on front pastedown.
Binding
Contemporary sprinkled calf with 20th century reback and repairs; boards have double-blind-fillet border frames; single gold fillet along board edges; text block edges stained red.
Copy-specific note
Bound with approximately 200 other broadsides, mainly dated 1641-1642.
Subject
Great Britain History Civil War, 1642-1649.
Subject
Great Britain Politics and government 1642-1649.
Subject
Great Britain Militia Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Hunscot, Joseph publisher.
Added entry--name
England and Wales Parliament. House of Lords.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B48279