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<NAME>Elspeth Healey</NAME>
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RESOLVES of PARLIAMENT, Touching the LORD GENERALS taking and Sub&s;cribing the ENGAGEMENT.</HEAD>
<OPENER>Re&s;olved upon the Que&s;tion by the Parliament,</OPENER>
<P>_THat the Parliament doth Declare, That <HI>Thomas</HI> Lord <HI>Fairfax,</HI> General of the Parliament Forces, having taken and Sub|&s;cribed the Engagement appointed for the Members of the Councel of State; <HI>viz.</HI></P>
<Q><P>I <HI>A. B.</HI> being nominated a Member of the Councel of State by this pre&s;ent Parliament, Do te&s;tifie, That I do adhere to this pre&s;ent Parliament, in the Maintenance and Defence of the publique Liberty and Freedom of this Nation, as it is now Declared by this Parliament, by who&s;e Authority I am con&s;tituted a Member of the &s;aid Councel, and in the Maintenance and Defence of their Re&s;olutions concerning the &s;etling the Government of this Nation for future, in the way of a Republique, without a King or Hou&s;e of Peers: And I do promi&s;e in the &s;ight of God, That through his Grace, I will be faithful in performance of the Tru&s;t committed to me as afore&s;aid, and therein faithfully pur&s;ue the In&s;tructions given to the &s;aid Councel by this pre&s;ent Parliament. In confirmation of the premi&s;es, I have hereunto Sub&s;cribed my Name.</P></Q>
<P>His &s;aid taking and &s;ub&s;cribing, is a taking of the Engagement within the Act of Parliament, entituled, <HI>An Act for Sub&s;cribing the Engagement.</HI></P>
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<OPENER>Re&s;olved, &amp;c.</OPENER>
<P>That Mr. Speaker do &s;end this Vote to the General in a Letter, and to return unto him the hearty thanks of this Hou&s;e, for his great care in cau&s;ing the Orders to be put in Execution touching the taking the Engagement by the Army and Gari&s;ons, and the returns of the&s;e Sub&s;criptions.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Die Mercurii, 20 Februarii, 1649.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>ORdered by the Parliament, That the&s;e Votes be forthwith Printed and Publi&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by <HI>Edward Husband</HI> and <HI>Iohn Field,</HI> Printers to the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> 1649.</P>
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