Ge.1.16(95)
England and Wales Parliament.
[Proceedings. 1642-02-14]
An ordinance of both houses of Parliament, for the safeguard of the Parliament, tower and City of London, under the command of Serjeant Major Generall Skippon..
[London] : February 18. London, printed for Joseph Hunscott., 1641. [i.e. 1642]
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 36 cm. (full-sheet)
Caption title.
Refers to order of Parliament, 12 January last, to place a guard about the tower under Maj. Gen. Skippon, commander of the Guards of Parliament. This has been done, and the guards posted at the end of Tower Street and elsewhere. His dispositions are approved of as being for the real good service of King and Parliament. Any person arresting or troubling him violates the privilege of Parliament. -- Steele.
Dates are giving according to Lady Day dating.
Type headpiece; Steele notation: that these the
Steele wrongly reports that the British Library copy is printed on the reverse of Steele 1923. In fact, it is printed on the reverse of Steele 1920.
ESTC, R215597
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), E1793
Steele, I, 1989
Armorial bookplate of Eton College on front pastedown.
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.
Bound with approximately 200 other broadsides, mainly dated 1641-1642.
England and Wales Parliament. Proceedings. 1642-01-12.
Great Britain History Civil War, 1642-1649.
Hunscot, Joseph publisher.
England London.
B48304