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<NAME>Elspeth Healey</NAME>
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By the Committee of Safety Of the Common-wealth of <HI>England, Scotland,</HI> and <HI>Ireland.</HI> A PROCLAMATION Touching the Summoning of a <HI>PARLIAMENT.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_THe Council of Officers of the Army, upon con&s;ideration of the pre&s;ent condition of affairs in this Commonwealth, and the great di&s;tractions now fomented by the enemies thereof; and being &s;atisfied that the mo&s;t probable means under God for the appea&s;ing of all di&s;contents, quieting the peoples minds, and pre&s;er|ving of their Spiritual and Civil Rights and Liberties, will be, that a Parlia|ment, without a &s;ingle Per&s;on as chief Magi&s;trate, King&s;hip or Hou&s;e of Peers, may &s;peedily be called, who, through the gracious a&s;si&s;tance of our God, may proceed to &s;uch a &s;ettlement of the Government of this Commonwealth, as may be for the &s;ecurity of the Cau&s;e wherein the good People of the&s;e Nations have been, and &s;till are engaged; And that their in|tentions of &s;etting up the Civil Authority, and being &s;ub&s;ervient thereunto may be brought to effect, They have held it their Duty by all good means within their power to be in&s;trumental in procuring the &s;ame, and in order thereunto, have made known to the Committee of Safety their de&s;ires herein; and that the Committee would take &s;peedy Order that the &s;ame may be put in execution for the ends before mentioned. Whereupon this Committee being ready to contribute their utmo&s;t endeavours in &s;o good a work, and &s;o much tending to the &s;atisfaction of all good men, and to the pre&s;ervation of the Peace, Liberties and Rights of this Com|monwealth, Have thought fit, and do hereby publi&s;h and declare, That Writs under the Great Seal of <HI>England,</HI> &s;hall forthwith be i&s;&s;ued for the &s;ummoning of a Parliament, as a|fore&s;aid, to be held in the u&s;ual place at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> upon the four and twentieth day of <HI>January</HI> next en&s;uing; And this Committee do hereby exhort and require all per&s;ons of what condition &s;oever, that in the mean time they do not act or promote any thing to the di&s;turbance of the pub|lique Peace, but that they do demean them&s;elves peaceably according to the Law, expecting and re&s;olving to &s;ubmit unto what the Parliament &s;hall in their wi&s;edom think fit to Order concerning the great affairs of the&s;e di&s;tracted Nations, wherein they humbly pray and hope that the Lord will be plea&s;ed to vouch&s;afe his gracious pre&s;ence and a&s;&s;i&s;tance.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at Whitehall <DATE>this 14. day of December. 1659.</DATE></DATELINE>
ORdered by the Committee of Safety, That this Proclamation be forthwith Printed and Publi&s;hed.
<SIGNED><HI>Will. Robin&s;on,</HI> Clerk of the Committee of Safety.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>London, Printed by <HI>Henry Hills,</HI> and <HI>John Field,</HI> Printers to the Committee of Safety.</P>
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