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<NAME>Elspeth Healey</NAME>
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<HEAD>&leaf; By the Council of State.</HEAD>
<HEAD>A PROCLAMATION.</HEAD>
<P>_WHereas the Council of State hath received Information, that there is an endeavour
by Colonel <HI>John Lambert,</HI> and other Officers (lately reduced) to rai&s;e a new War,
and to unbroil the Nation in blood and di&s;tractions, and to hinder the Members
from meeting in the next Parliament, on who&s;e free Councel (under God) the hope
of &s;etling the Nations doth principally depend. And being informed that Colonel
<HI>John Hew&s;on,</HI> Col. <HI>Ralph Cobbet,</HI> Col. <HI>Edward Salmon,</HI> Col. <HI>A&s;hfeild,</HI> Major <HI>Creed,</HI>
Major General <HI>Tho. Harri&s;on,</HI> Col. <HI>John Okey,</HI> Major <HI>Wag&s;taff,</HI> Lievtenant Col.
<HI>Miller,</HI> Captain <HI>John Blackwell,</HI> Captain <HI>Richard Dean,</HI> and Major <HI>Gladman</HI> (&s;ome
of them being the number of tho&s;e nine Officers upon whom the Parliament put a mark of di&s;plea&s;ure,
for their former di&s;turbing of Parliament Authority, and Colonel <HI>Robert Lilburn,</HI> Who was &s;ummoned
to attend the Council, and came accordingly to <HI>London,</HI> hath lurked privately about the Town, and is
&s;ince departed, without making his Appearance) are per&s;ons apprehended to be dangerous, and bent to
ingage with the &s;aid Colonel <HI>John Lambert,</HI> in di&s;turbing the Peace of the Nation, and to interrupt the
&s;itting of the next Parliament. The Council doth therefore hereby &s;trictly charge, and require the &s;aid Co|lonel
<HI>John Hew&s;on,</HI> Col. <HI>Ralph Cobbet,</HI> Col. <HI>Edward Salmon,</HI> Col. <HI>A&s;hfeild,</HI> Major <HI>Creed,</HI> Major General
<HI>Thomas Harri&s;on,</HI> Col. <HI>John Okey,</HI> Major <HI>Wag&s;taff,</HI> Lievtenant Colonel <HI>Miller,</HI> Captain <HI>John Blackwell,</HI>
Capt. <HI>Richard Dean,</HI> Major <HI>Gladman,</HI> and Col. <HI>Robert Lilburn,</HI> to appear and tender them&s;elves to the
Council at <HI>White-hall,</HI> within three daies after the proclaiming of this Proclamation, in the County or
place where any of the &s;aid per&s;ons are or &s;hall be, under the pains and penalties of being proceeded a|gain&s;t,
and of having their E&s;tates to be forthwith Seized and Seque&s;tred for the u&s;e of the Common|wealth,
in ca&s;e of their failer to appear according to the time limitted by this Proclamation.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at the Council of State at <HI>Whitehall,</HI> <DATE>this one and twentieth day of <HI>April,</HI> 1660.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>Abel Roper</HI> and <HI>Tho. Collins,</HI> Printers to the Council of State.</P>
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