ENGLISH CIVIL WAR NEWS 1650 Parliament Army Cavaliers Rushworth Pecke Fairfax
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| Reference Number: Avaluer:7022465 | Non-Fiction Subject: History & Military |
| Language: English | Year Printed: 1649-50 |
| Place of Publication: LONDON |
A Perfect Diurnall of Some PASSAGES and PROCEEDINGS Of and in relation to the ARMIES IN ENGLAND and IRELAND.Licensed according to the direction of the late Act for Printing.From Monday July 15. to Monday July 22. 1650London, Printed by Francis Leach, And Edw Griffin in the Old Baily(1650)
Slim pamphlet (8 pages, each printed on both sides).Measures approx. 21cm x 14.5cm.Some marks/stains throughout and worn/frayed at the page edges, generally without encroaching into the text. ...Text generally readable throughout.See photos for further indication of condition.Extremely scarce weekly 'newspaper' edited by Samuel Pecke & John Rushworth.Fascinating reporting of events and discussions during the ENGLISH CIVIL WAR, at the time that they happened.
Issued weekly from Number I (December 10-17 1649) to Number 302 (September 17-24 1655)
This is number 32 - July 15th - July 22nd 1650.
"From Lancaster by Letters we understand that the L.Gen. Crumwell hath a Regiment of Foot raising in that County, but the Royall Presbyterian Priests do much oppose them therein..."
"The Parliament of England finding it necessary, that the Commonwealth be put into a posture of defence for the preservation of peace, and Liberties of the people after so much blood shed, and treasure spent."
"As to our Armies march into Scotland, and the just provocations thereunto, these queries are propounded unto them: 1) What it is they call injury, when they are on the inferring side? for where they are passive, no doubt they know well enough......"
"The people are much heightened at the Kings coming into that Nation, since the time whereof there hath been more Wine and Beare dranke (as some conceive) than was in halfe a year before, for in each company they carouse the Kings health five or six times, so that a man can goe into no Town or Village, but he shall espy the people drunk up and down the streets."
Please ask if any additional information is required.Additional photographs can be provided on request.
Slim pamphlet (8 pages, each printed on both sides).Measures approx. 21cm x 14.5cm.Some marks/stains throughout and worn/frayed at the page edges, generally without encroaching into the text. ...Text generally readable throughout.See photos for further indication of condition.Extremely scarce weekly 'newspaper' edited by Samuel Pecke & John Rushworth.Fascinating reporting of events and discussions during the ENGLISH CIVIL WAR, at the time that they happened.
Issued weekly from Number I (December 10-17 1649) to Number 302 (September 17-24 1655)
This is number 32 - July 15th - July 22nd 1650.
"From Lancaster by Letters we understand that the L.Gen. Crumwell hath a Regiment of Foot raising in that County, but the Royall Presbyterian Priests do much oppose them therein..."
"The Parliament of England finding it necessary, that the Commonwealth be put into a posture of defence for the preservation of peace, and Liberties of the people after so much blood shed, and treasure spent."
"As to our Armies march into Scotland, and the just provocations thereunto, these queries are propounded unto them: 1) What it is they call injury, when they are on the inferring side? for where they are passive, no doubt they know well enough......"
"The people are much heightened at the Kings coming into that Nation, since the time whereof there hath been more Wine and Beare dranke (as some conceive) than was in halfe a year before, for in each company they carouse the Kings health five or six times, so that a man can goe into no Town or Village, but he shall espy the people drunk up and down the streets."
Please ask if any additional information is required.Additional photographs can be provided on request.
