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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<P>PAX QVAERITVR BELLO.</P>
<P>OLIVARIVS DEI &diamond; GRA: REIPVB: ANGLIAE, SCOTIAE, ET HIBERNIAE, &amp;^c PROTECTOR </P>
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<HEAD>&leaf; By the Protector. A DECLARATION Of His Highne&s;s the Lord Protector, Inviting per&s;ons to &s;end over all &s;orts of nece&s;&s;ary Provi&s;ions to <HI>Mardike.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_WHereas the Port of <HI>Dunkirk</HI> (which while it hath been in the hand of the Ene|mies of this Commonwealth, hath been very prejudicial to the Merchants and Trade of the&s;e Nations) is now &s;traitly be&s;ieged both by Sea and Land, by the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> and <HI>French</HI> Forces; and for that, during the &s;aid Siege, in re&s;pect of the greatne&s;s of that Army, there is and will be need of Supplies of Bread, Beer, Beef, Butter, Chee&s;e, Hay, Oats, and other Provi&s;ions for Man and Hor&s;e, the want whereof may prolong the work intended, being of &s;o great concernment to this Commonwealth: His Highne&s;s the Lord Protector, with the advice and con&s;ent of His Council, hath thought fit to publi&s;h, and Declare the &s;ame, inviting all Merchants, and o|thers to &s;end, with what expedition they may, for &s;upply of the &s;aid Forces, &s;uch provi&s;ions as afore&s;aid, for which His Highne&s;s hath received a&s;&s;urance, that, upon delivery thereof, there &s;hall be &s;atisfaction in ready money, provi&s;ion being already made therein, which as it may be of advantage to &s;uch Merchants, or other per&s;ons, in venting the &s;aid Commodities, &s;o it will be e&s;teemed as an acceptable &s;ervice, and of great advantage to the Commonwealth. And therefore His Highne&s;s doth Order, that this Declaration be publi&s;hed, and po&s;ted up in all the Ports and Sea Towns of this Commonwealth, that notice may be taken thereof.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at <HI>White-Hall</HI> <DATE>the 18th. of <HI>May,</HI> 1658.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>London</HI> printed, <HI>By Henry Hills</HI> and <HI>John Field,</HI> Printers to His Highne&s;s. 1658.</P>
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