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A petition from His Excellency Thomas Lord Fairfax and the General Councel of Officers of the Army, to the Honourable the Commons of England in Parliament assembled, concerning the draught of an agreement of the people, for a secure and present peace, by them framed and prepared. Together with the said agreement presented Saturday, Jan. 20. and a declaration of His Excellency and the said General Councel, concerning the same. Tendred to the consideration of the people

Archive Print Item: BC CW (Dep) 1649/8

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Title: A petition from His Excellency Thomas Lord Fairfax and the General Councel of Officers of the Army, to the Honourable the Commons of England in Parliament assembled, concerning the draught of an agreement of the people, for a secure and present peace, by them framed and prepared. Together with the said agreement presented Saturday, Jan. 20. and a declaration of His Excellency and the said General Councel, concerning the same. Tendred to the consideration of the people

Level: Item

Classmark: BC CW (Dep) 1649/8

Additional creator(s): Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax Baron (1612-1671) (Other); Great Britain. Parliament (Other); Great Britain. Army (Other)

Related people: Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax

Publisher: printed for John Partridge, R. Harford, G. Calvert, and G. Whittington

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1649

Language: English

Size and medium: [2], 24, 23-28, 28-29 p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/288207

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002528069705181

Description

Fairfax's petition dated Jan. 15. 1649, referring to the Remonstrance of November 18, 1648.


With an initial imprimatur leaf. Text and signatures are continuous despite pagination. There are at least 3 variants of this work. Variant.1 which appears to be the earliest has an imprimatur on the titlepage worded "By the appointment of his Excellency, and the General Councel of Officers of the army... " with pagination as above. Page.26 is unsigned. Variant.2 (of which the Routh and Bamburgh copies are examples) has the imprimatur and pagination as in variant 1. with page.26 signed "John Rushworth." Variant 3. has the imprimatur "By the appointment of the General Councel of officers of the army ... " and has the correct pagination of 32 p.


Indexed in: Wing (2) F213, does not distinguish between variants.

Additional description

First variant. Wanting first leaf. Badly clipped at top edge, affecting pagination and some lines of text. Some pages stained, pp.17-end repaired at foot. Deposited from the Brotherton Library

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